A Beginner’s Guide to Access Levels in Swift
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Creating custom collections in Swift
When creating collections of objects or values in Swift, we usually use data structures provided by the standard library - such as Array, Dictionary and Set. While those three cover most use cases, sometimes creating a custom wrapper collection can enable us to make our code more predictable and less prone to errors.
Understanding and Extending Swift 4’s Codable
The Codable protocols (Decodable and Encodable) were introduced to the Swift standard library with Swift 4.
Swift Codable: Decoding / Encoding With Context
The Codable protocols are one of the coolest recent additions to Swift. Even though it works similarly to its community counterparts like Unbox, Codable has the advantage of being powered by the compiler. One of my favorite features in Unbox was to give a context to the decoding operation. Let's take a look at how we can achieve the same with Codable and how I use to power a type-erased Decodable type.
A framework for building Open Graph images | The GitHub Blog
We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.
Converting closure-based code into async/await in Swift
Learn about checked continuations and converting closure and delegate-based code into async/await in Swift.
Prevent docker from filling up your disk
Deploying docker container as part of your continuous integration can cause your disk to fill up pretty quick. Docker does reuse the layers that did not change between deployments. But still, that last layer with you .war or .js bundle can take a few hundred megabytes. Taking into account, that you should be deploying a new version of every update of the master branch, this can take up a gigabyte every day.