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Snapshot Testing – Capturing Your Code’s Best Side

Snapshot testing is a simple way of comparing different states of the user interface, especially useful when refactoring code. Find out why, when, and how to use it.

On-device ML research with MLX and Swift

The Swift programming language has a lot of potential to be used for machine learning research because it combines the ease of use and high-level syntax of a language like Python with the speed of a compiled language like C++.

Xcode Console and Unified Logging

Apple introduced the unified logging framework for Swift in iOS 14 but it took until Xcode 15 for it to become integrated into the debug console. Log entries include metadata to classify each entry by subsystem, category, and type, the process, and the source call site. The log type determines whether the system archives the log to persistent storage.

Embedding a privacy manifest into an XCFramework

During WWDC 2023, Apple presented a number of developer-impacting privacy updates. One of the updates, introducing the concept of a privacy manifest, has a direct impact on the work I’ve been doing making the CRDT library Automerge available on Apple platforms. The two relevant sessions from WWDC 2023:

Discovering Swift Collections package

I want to continue the topic of the valuable Swift packages that I use in my apps. This time, we will talk about the Swift Collections package, providing us with a bunch of helpful collection types that Swift language doesn’t include out of the box.