Nate Cook

Marcin Krzyżanowski had a great post a few days ago about the challenges of working with integers in Swift, Madness of Generic Integer. The gist of the post is that since Swift’s disparate integer types don’t have a single common protocol in their hierarchy...

Long Live Cocoa
Another first — my first article in a new role at NSHipster:
Swift is an exciting language for many of us, but it’s still brand new. The stability of Objective-C and the history and strength of Cocoa mean that Swift isn’t ready to be the driving force behind a major change, at least not quite yet. Cocoa’s depth...

The Swift standard library begins with declarations of all the operators used throughout. All the familiar operators are there – arithmetic, logical, bitwise, bitshift, range, as well as the pattern matching and null coalescing operators. Later you find...

UIPrintInteractionController
My second article for NSHipster is up today, about UIPrintInteractionController, UIPrintPageRenderer, and the rest of the UIKit printing API:
With all the different means to comment, mark up, save, and share right at our fingertips, it’s easy to overlook the value of a printed sheet of paper. Through its printing API, UIKit makes it easy to print straight from a user’s device with custom designs...