by Marc Maset
Today I worked on the search functionality for the upcoming Product Management app. Given that this app will contain lots of long notes, having good search is essential. In most cases & for most apps, a simple one to one comparison will do the job great -like in the above image-. Here’s how a predicate implementation …
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As I continue working on the new product management app, I was trying to get a quick CoreData count. To be precise, I needed to get the count for how many of its relationships met a given criteria. There’s quite a few approaches but none as clean as “the filter”: Using it for boolean arguments: …
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If you’re working on a new app using the latest Xcode & macOS Monterey betas be aware of a bug that leads to SceneStorage failures appearing on the console: Failed to restore SceneStorage with key selectedTaskId. at SwiftUI/SceneStorage.swift:105[…]Failed to restore SceneStorage with key sidebarSelection. at SwiftUI/SceneStorage.swift:105Binary[2571:23261] Checked for defaults IMKUseDistributedObjects. result is 0Binary[2571:23261] IMK will …
Very interesting article from the NY Times on the ‘downfall’ of IBM’s Watson. Maps quite well with what Steve Jobs said many years ago: “I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it …
“How I built this” is a podcast where successful entrepreneurs are interviewed in a very candid way. The ups and downs, the complexities, the long nights… Today I listened to Rich Barton, the creator of Expedia, Zillow and GlassDoor. Both the show, and this specific episode are great: https://overcast.fm/+YsraNZ6eo On a related note, here’s some of …
Good refresher on the key difference between Important and Urgent, good article by David Parks. Here’s the link, worth a read. Marc
For the upcoming app I’m working on I need a way to easily detect dates the user may have typed at the end of a line. It was time to re-visit old faithful regex. After lots of readings and tests I ended up settling on this beauty: “.*[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}” Here’s what it does: The …
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Its amazing how fast you can prototype in SwiftUI, it seems like magic. At the same time, when you start to get into the details, it can be infuriating… Let me explain… After completing the prototype last week and deciding on the key features for the app I started implementing them. One of the very …
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Although this blog is entirely focused on my developer-side, this is a part-time (nights and weekends) enterprise. My ‘main’ job is not in development, it has quite a bit to do with product management. **I promise you this is going somewhere** Over many years, in many roles, the one thing that I’ve seen consistently differentiate …
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When not to refactor code, when to do it, and how much effort to put into it are all questions programmers deal with on ongoing basis. This article from wealthfront engineering team provides an interesting take. https://eng.wealthfront.com/2021/05/17/refactoring-production-code/ The blog itself is worth following if you’re into this type of content. Marc