Recent Articles

• As We May Code

  What if, instead of lowering source code down for the purpose of execution, we raised it for the purpose of understanding?

• WWDC 2020

  A brief remark about the excitement of Apple’s annual developer conference.

• Language Server Protocol

  Apple’s adoption of LSP is arguably the most important decision they’ve made for Swift since releasing the language as open source in 2014. It’s a big deal for app developers, and it’s an even bigger deal for Swift developers on other platforms.

• Swift Development with Visual Studio Code

  VSCode is a cross-platform text and source code editor from Microsoft, and among the first tools to support Language Server Protocol. With LSP for Swift now shipping in Xcode, it’s a great time to see how this integration works for yourself.

• Contact Tracing

  Apple and Google announced a joint initiative to deploy contact tracing functionality to the billions of devices running iOS or Android in the coming months. In this article, we’ll take a first look at these specifications — particularly, Apple’s proposed ExposureNotification framework — in an effort to anticipate what this will all look like in practice.

• Cross-Pollination

  A brief essay about the flowering of ideas, written for the occasion of Earth Day.