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Books

Books I've read: Driving Technical Change (by Terrence Ryan)

How then do you properly influence your peers into adopting practices and technologies you're pushing foward?

Books I've read: The Pragmatic Programmer (by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt)

There's a fine line between thinking quick on your feet and being reckless while coding.

Books I've read: The manager's path (by Camille Fournier)

Do we (as developers) know what it takes/makes a great manager?

Book recommendations πŸ“š

Evergreen knowledge in the form of books, this is a small glimpse of books I've read on core topics everyone should understand.

Productivity

5 key points in enjoying writing code for a living

Coding is labaled as stressful and an intense heavy taxing-brain endeavor. It doesn't have to be.

Being productive with endless "free" distractions

How can we manage all the buzz, interruptions and life's context in general and still get things done?

Swift

Swiftable 2023 - My First talk

From idea to talk. How's the process to become a speaker

Tracking down effectiveness regarding the sharing feature on Swift

How can we be certain that people are sharing our apps?

Guarantee localization with SwitfUI

The new shiny framework from Apple is not very intuitive on the testing front, or is it? How can we make it so?

Documentation in practice for Swift

How do we write useful documentation that's available beyond the IDE?

Building a mock server using Swift's Vapor

What if I told you you can use what you already know as an iOS developer for backend development?

On Testing 3rd party frameworks without losing your hair 🀯

Do you skip testing the part of your code base that involve 3rd party frameworks?

Descriptive localizable using Swift's enums

Swift's Enums are quite powerful. Let me show you how they can be levaraged for localization purposes πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΎπŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ.

Self documented code with flexible Swift enums

Since bad documentation is far less useful than no documentation at all, how do we make ourselves the path easier?

Work

Unit tests are not silver bullets

Are automated tests really that necessary? If so, why aren't we writing more of them? Is TDD a cult?

What refactoring is not

Fewer terms have been misused more times than refactoring. Let's see when and where it really applies.

Skills for succeeding on software development

What if I tell you there's no need to curse on hourly basis during every single working day while writing code? Sounds impossible? Not at all πŸ€“πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ’»

Think before you code

Who are we really saving time for when we take shortcuts on daily basis in our codebases?

A leap of faith? Incursion into mobile development

Feeling tempted by mobile development but not sure if you're prepared, let alone whether it IS the right fit for you?

Acing(ish) your iOS interview

Job hunting doesn't have to be a dreadful endeavor for an iOS developer. Let me show you what I mean

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