Ben Scheirman

In general I think Apple’s APIs are pretty good. However there are the occasional exceptions where my brain, for whatever reason, can’t seem to get a hold on the essence of the API design and results in me constantly looking up the docs. In UIKit, the UIAnimatedTransitioning and UIPresentationController APIs come to mind.

Today I released a big new update for Side Mirror, my macOS app for presenters.

Swift 5.5 is here with Xcode 13 Beta and with it comes my favorite new addition to Swift: Async/Await.

I’m excited to announce that my Combine Swift Course is now complete and available for purchase.

In this post I will describe how I use fastlane to manage my iOS and macOS version numbers for my releases.

I had a need today to take an existing git repo that has commits, and move the history as of one of those commits into a different git repo.

Sign-in with Apple is a fantastically useful new feature in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina. I knew when it was announced that I would want to support it. I’m currently working on this for NSScreencast and things haven’t gone quite as smooth as I would have expected.

A few months ago Paul Hudson asked me if I would be interested in contributing to a new book. The idea of the book was this: many authors, each writing a chapter about Swift, with all proceeds going to charity. I quickly accepted and began writing.

Sandboxing has been a fact of macOS development for quite some time now. With each release of macOS we see an increasing number of features and new security constraints that we must live with.

Almost every app you build with Xcode will need some sort of configuration. Whether it is API Keys for 3rd party SDKs, the URL of your API, feature toggles, or a logging level of verbosity, it’s a good idea to keep this configuration separate from your code.