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12 posts tagged with Engineering

Monarch: Minimal, Manageable, Migrations 🦋

Monarch: Minimal, Manageable, Migrations 🦋

Oct 23, 2024 | 5 min read
DatabasesEngineeringiOSOpen SourceSwift

Introducing Monarch, a simple yet flexible migrations library for Swift that helps manage user data changes across app updates with minimal hassle.

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Building A Customizable Framer Component

Building A Customizable Framer Component

Oct 14, 2024 | 5 min read
EngineeringOpen SourceTutorialWeb

A technical walkthrough of building a customizable Framer Code Component for Buttondown email signups, complete with Property Controls and open source code.

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Introducing Recap: What's Old Is What's New Again

Introducing Recap: What's Old Is What's New Again

Oct 9, 2024 | 6 min read
EngineeringiOSOpen SourceSwiftSwiftUI

Open sourcing Recap, a Swift library for creating beautiful What's New screens to highlight app updates and keep users informed about new features.

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Reflections On An Open Source Project

Reflections On An Open Source Project

Sep 6, 2022 | 15 min read
EngineeringiOSOpen SourceSwift

Personal reflections on building Boutique and Bodega open source projects, covering the ups and downs of creating something valuable for the Swift community.

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Model View Controller Store: Reinventing MVC for SwiftUI with Boutique

Model View Controller Store: Reinventing MVC for SwiftUI with Boutique

Jun 22, 2022 | 22 min read
DatabasesEngineeringiOSOpen SourceSwiftSwiftUI

Introducing Boutique, a new architecture that reimagines MVC for SwiftUI by adding a Store layer to handle state management and data flow in a familiar, approachable way.

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Maximum Design For Minimal Effort

Jun 15, 2022 | 1 min read
DesignEngineeringProductivityTalk

A 15-minute live coding talk covering design fundamentals - color, spacing, typography, and animation - to transform basic UI into beautiful interfaces.

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Coding As Creative Expression

Coding As Creative Expression

May 21, 2022 | 3 min read
EngineeringProgramming

Exploring whether coding is art or science, and how programming serves as a creative medium for solving problems and expressing ideas through code.

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Creating Slick Color Palette APIs

Creating Slick Color Palette APIs

Aug 24, 2021 | 6 min read
DesignEngineeringiOSSwiftSwiftUITutorial

Building maintainable, flexible color palette systems for iOS and macOS apps using asset catalogs, semantic naming, and SwiftUI integration.

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Putting the U in GraphQL

Mar 12, 2021 | 3 min read
EngineeringiOSSwiftTutorialWeb

Learning how to make GraphQL requests from scratch without libraries like Apollo, exploring the fundamentals of GraphQL client-side implementation in Swift.

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Context-Bound Types

Sep 21, 2020 | 4 min read
EngineeringiOSSwift

Exploring API design patterns for balancing implementation exposure, using the example of creating view controllers with header views in four different approaches.

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Building Better Views (Part I)

Building Better Views (Part I)

Dec 26, 2019 | 4 min read
EngineeringiOSSwiftSwiftUITutorial

Introducing ViewData, a declarative architecture pattern for transforming models into views that offers a maintainable alternative to MVVM for iOS development.

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Building Better Views (Part II), Next Steps

Dec 26, 2019 | 4 min read
EngineeringiOSSwiftSwiftUITutorial

Continuing the ViewData architecture discussion, covering complex views, performance considerations, and practical implementation strategies.

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