Another day of 100 Days of Swift, with more closure confusion this time. Closure syntax is complicated on its own, without even considering all of the shorthand and optional syntactic structures, from trailing closure syntax. The confusion is compounded by the way that the Xcode editor will suggest some shorthand …

Today I'm continuing to day 6 of 100 Days of Swift. Today we're back on closures. I use closures a lot in Swift and Objective-C, but mostly by recipe. This recipe/copypasta code is exactly what I'm trying to get past with 100 Days of Swift, so let's dig in …

Onward to day 5 of 100 Days of Swift. Today was all about functions, and there were a few things that I didn't remember, mainly because I don't use them much when I code.

First up is variadic functions. I don't use these because I tend to use arrays when …

I'm stuck in a loop, doing day 4 of 100 Days of Swift again.

Only two short comments today.

First, I'd forgotten about repeat loops. Does anyone really use them?

repeat {
    print("The body of a repeat loop is always executed at least once.")
    break
} while true

Second, I also …

Onward to day 3 of 100 Days of Swift!

Just a few tidbits today. First of all, I'd forgotten about the fallthrough keyword in a switch statement. I guess I understand the intent here, people forget to use break all the time. However, it seems like every other language's switch …

Yay, on to day 2 of 100 Days of Swift!

I'd forgotten that dictionary literals in Swift are written with square brackets, instead of with curly braces like pretty much every other language that I've used.

var languages = [
    "Alex": ["English", "Italian", "Japanese"],
    "Skyler": ["English", "German", "Latin"],
    "Hal": ["English", "German"],
]

I'd …

I'm tackling 100 Days of Swift again. Last time I tried it, I got sidetracked by personal stuff and bailed after a few weeks.

I've already shipped a few apps in Swift, so I'm not doing this to learn Swift from scratch. I'm trying to learn the useful patterns and …

In the spirit of 2020 being a kick-ass year for me, I've decided to re-start this blog.

Expect a lot of garbage: daily posts on (re-)learning swift development, regular flailing away at machine learning stuff, and other explorations in my personal or work interests.

I recently watched Olivia Remes' …

Since May I’ve been reading and following along with Joel Grus’ Data Science From Scratch. One of the first things we learn in this book is how to make charts in Python with matplotlib.

I’ve also been reading the Wall Street Journal daily and The Economist weekly. As …

I’ve had my iPad Pro for only about a week.

I’ve wanted something like an iPad Pro for years. Ten years ago, I lusted after the Modbook, a clunky attempt to hack a MacBook by replacing the keyboard and hinge with a stylus sensitive display. The lure of …