Ben is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust.
For years my machine has had a graveyard of version managers: rbenv for Ruby, nvm for Node, pyenv for Python, etc. Each one had its own shell hook, its own config format, and its own way of getting confused when I would cd into a project.
When you follow a Vapor tutorial, you’ll often end up with something like this in routes.swift:
In general I think Apple’s APIs are pretty good. However there are the occasional exceptions where my brain, for whatever reason, can’t seem to get a hold on the essence of the API design and results in me constantly looking up the docs. In UIKit, the UIAnimatedTransitioning and UIPresentationController APIs come to mind.
Today I released a big new update for Side Mirror, my macOS app for presenters.
Swift 5.5 is here with Xcode 13 Beta and with it comes my favorite new addition to Swift: Async/Await.
I’m excited to announce that my Combine Swift Course is now complete and available for purchase.
In this post I will describe how I use fastlane to manage my iOS and macOS version numbers for my releases.
I had a need today to take an existing git repo that has commits, and move the history as of one of those commits into a different git repo.
Sign-in with Apple is a fantastically useful new feature in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina. I knew when it was announced that I would want to support it. I’m currently working on this for NSScreencast and things haven’t gone quite as smooth as I would have expected.
A few months ago Paul Hudson asked me if I would be interested in contributing to a new book. The idea of the book was this: many authors, each writing a chapter about Swift, with all proceeds going to charity. I quickly accepted and began writing.