A blog about things that interest me.
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Always learning new things
Yesterday I went to #Unwrap Live 2024. This online, all day, SwiftUI programming class by Paul Hudson from Hacking With Swift fame, was all about the Apple Vision Pro this year. I love the way Paul explains code, techniques, and APIs. The other valuable thing is, he is willing to rathole on a question that…
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Wasted Time Pro – Launch Date
Well, I’ve finally done it. I have submitted an app that will launch on the same day as a new piece of Apple hardware. I have taken my simple application – Wasted Time, and did a total re-write over the last year to better take advantage of SwiftUI and the latest Swift APIs. I changed…
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SwiftData / SwiftUI Combo Frustrations
The last few posts have been about my re-write of my personal application to address greeting cards. This has been a very frustrating effort as I’ve tried to restructure the app’s UI to better adhere to Apple’s design principles in order to allow the user edit both a recipient’s Address and to add their own…
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Card Tracker Rewrite Update
This weekend I had a major milestone of the rewrite. All features are working (except edits). I was successful in adding a new feature of allowing for looking at all the cards sent for a specific event, i.e. Show me all the Christmas cards by date and recipient. This new feature is something I’ve been…
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Card Tracker ReWrite
For the last five years or so, I’ve been working on a pet project to track the various greeting cards we send out each year. The initial version had a lot of UI problems, so I used it as an opportunity to learn SwiftUI. The second major rewrite was to add CloudKit integration so that…