Matthew's dev blog

2025

May 31

Colourful Swift logging

Swift CommandLine Logging

2024

Sep 25

How to tag CloudFormation stacks with the git revision

CloudFormation SAM git Make

Sep 11

Radar: Live Activity expanded regions cannot be a single accessibility element

Radar LiveActivities Accessibility

Jul 4

Radar: Smart Stack Live Activities are not sorted by relevancy

Radar LiveActivities watchOS

Mar 9

Radar: show Live Activities in the watchOS Smart Stack

Radar LiveActivities

Mar 9

Radar: show prominent Live Activity alerts on iOS

Radar LiveActivities

2022

Nov 27

Sized-to-fit SwiftUI bottom sheet

SwiftUI bottom sheet detents

Nov 20

A minimal reachability check for Swift

Swift reachability networking

Oct 20

Using Synology NAS "USB Copy" to backup multiple shared folders

Synology NAS Backups

Aug 27

Using CoordinateSpace to draw over a SwiftUI List

SwiftUI CoordinateSpace

Apr 17

Solar panels and Powerwall - one year retrospective

Solar Tesla Powerwall

Feb 19

Using custom fonts with SwiftUI

SwiftUI

Jan 6

An indeterminate linear ProgressView that works on iOS

SwiftUI

Jan 3

Investigation of @StateObject lifecycle

Swift SwiftUI StateObject

2021

Dec 21

HTML2Markdown Swift Package

HTML Markdown Swift SwiftPackage

Dec 18

An Xcode template for SwiftUI playgrounds

SwiftUI Xcode Playground

Nov 2

Custom Back buttons in SwiftUI

SwiftUI

2019

Jul 27

Exploring Different Behaviours in Swift Enums

Swift Enumerations

Jan 26

Data-driven Screen Dispatching for iOS

iOS Coordinators

2018

Dec 21

SwiftMock - A Mocking Solution for Swift

Swift Mocking Testing

Dec 2

Accessing Swift Arrays Without Counting on Fingers

Swift

Nov 23

Swift Extensions for Protocol Conformance Considered Harmful

Swift Best Practices

Nov 10

Handling widgetPerformUpdate in an iOS Today extension

Swift Best Practices

Nov 3

Enums are meant for switching

Swift Best Practices