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Boom: Final Follow-Up
My 2012 series of posts about Apple’s Lightning connector was (and still is!) the most-visited material here on the Solipsism Gradient: over 120 thousand visits so far, and counting. Most comments...
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The Mac Turns 30 (part IV)
[continued from part III] So, here I was back in Brazil with my brand-new Mac 128. Of course, the first thing I did was to disassemble it — a tradition I kept up for almost three decades, until Apple’s...
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Swift: First Impressions
Over two weeks ago, Apple at WWDC announced something entirely unexpected: thousands of new APIs and a brand-new programming language, Swift. No hardware, of course; it’s a developers conference,...
View ArticleSwift: a simple Future
While doing research for my next Swift article, I implemented a very simple future class, which might be of interest: import Foundation func PerformOnMain(work: () -> Void) {...
View ArticleSwiftChecker: a simple Swift app
Well, finally I’ve decided to try out this newfangled GitHub stuff. Here’s my first repository: SwiftChecker, a simple real-world OS X app written in Swift. Quoting the readme file: My main intentions...
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Swift: a learning experience
A little over a month has passed since Swift came out, and I’ve just pushed a substantial update of my SwiftChecker app to GitHub. (Update: while writing this, I discovered a bug and pushed an updated...
View ArticleSwift: learning about type constraints
My first reading of the Swift books and of the generated Swift library header (remember, you can see the header by command-double-clicking on any Swift type) left me quite confused about the proper way...
View ArticleSwift: questions and answers
A few days ago, at the monthly CocoaHeads meeting here in Belo Horizonte, I was asked to do a brief talk. Since I didn’t have anything ready on short notice, I said I could show off my SwiftChecker app...
View ArticleRB App Quarantine 1.1 (273) released
RB App Quarantine 1.1 (273) is out. It’s the second app in the RB Utilities software suite — RB App Checker Lite was the first one. As the name implies, it’s a utility that checks or changes the...
View ArticleNew RB Utilities in the queue
The direct download version of RB App Checker Lite 1.1 (281) is out, and RB App Quarantine also has been updated to build# 281 (its version is still 1.1 since nothing has changed for the user). Check...
View ArticleOopsy
The recent update to WordPress 4.0 seemed to have gone smoothly — perhaps too smoothly. Turns out it has some fancy new redirection facilities that interfered with some of the pages outside this blog —...
View ArticleWatchKit: Watch this space
Apple’s (pre-)announcement of the Apple Watch left the tech world in the usual disarray. Is it an expensive knock-off of Android watches (people tell me there is such a thing!)? Is it an attack on the...
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Bugfix version out for RB App Checker Lite
I fixed a crash that happened on some (apparently very few) systems and the new version is 1.1.1 — build 288 for the Mac App Store version, and build 289 for the direct download version. As a bonus,...
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Updates update
Good news: we’re back. Here’s my updated world map: Bad news: my plans to work underway were largely derailed, and I had to wait an additional couple of weeks for my new iMac to arrive. Still,...
View ArticleWatch Update
Tomorrow (we suppose) the Apple Watch will be out. For months, there’s been lots of interesting documentation on Apple’s site — but it’s all about WatchKit, the framework used on the iPhone side to run...
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