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One of the primary things that people don't understand about Objective-C is that it is a solution of the two language problem , or more ...

The recent introduction of reasonably-priced ARM64 VPS instances by Hetzner was accompanied by a big smile and sigh of relief on my part,...

If I've been a bit quiet recently it's not due to lack of progress, but rather the very opposite: so much progress in Objective-S ...

Wow, what a mouthful! Although this architecture has featured in a number of my other writings, I haven't really described it in detail...

My previous post titled Glue: the Dark Matter of Software may have given the impression that I see glue code as exclusively a problem. A...

About two months ago, I showed a trivial tasks backend for a hypothetical ToDoMVC app. At the time, I noted that the performance was prett...

The other week, I stumbled on the post Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute , which was a funny coincidence, as I was just in...

Today I saw the news of github's release of the "AI Autopilot". As far as I can tell, it's an impressive piece of engine...

Finally took the plunge to start generating ARM64 assembly. As expected, the actual coding was much easier than overcoming the barrier to j...

One of funkier aspects of Swift syntax is the if let statement. As far as I can tell, it exists pretty much exclusively to check that an ...

Browsing the WWDC '21 session videos, I came across the session on Asynchronous Sequences . The preview image showcased some code for a...

My previous example raised a question : why no return statements? I am assuming this was about this part of the example: -descript...

Recently there was a question as to what one should use to create a backend for an iOS/macOS app these days. I couldn't resist mentioni...