NSHipster

The year is 2025. You’re writing tests for networking code in your Swift app.
You could hit the live API, but then your tests are slow, flaky, and fail whenever that third-party service has a bad day. You could stub URLSession, but then you’re maintaining two implementations of your networking layer. You could maintain JSON fixtures...

A few years ago, Twitter user @38mo1, a chemistry teacher from Japan, posted a Halloween × Boolean logic meme that I liked enough to save to ~/Downloads. And ever since, I’ve had a yearly reminder every October 1st to open the image and get a seasonal...

Ahh, @isolated(any). It’s an attribute of contradictions. You might see it a lot, but it’s ok to ignore it. You don’t need to use it, but I think it should be used more. It must always take an argument, but that argument cannot vary.
Confusing? Definitely. But we’ll get to it all....

You know what’s wrong with people? They’re too sure of themselves.
Better to be wrong and own it than be right with caveats. Hard to build a personal brand out of nuance these days. People are attracted to confidence — however misplaced.
But can you blame them? (People, that is) Working in software, the most annoying part of reaching Senior level is having to say “it depends” all the time. Much more fun getting to say “let’s ship it and iterate” as Staff or “that won’t scale” as a Principal...