Speaking of A/B tests, Apple has a pretty good set of tools to test (and optimize) your app’s App Store page. They call them «test treatments», and you can use them to test different versions of your App’s screenshots to see what drives more downloads.

Back in the days when I worked in consulting, most folks on my team (myself included) were tired, burned out, and fed up with working nights and weekends.

A/B testing is instrumental in measuring anything that a computer can count. It’s great to measure simple actions, such as a user tapping a button or conversions, but you shouldn’t base long-term product decisions on these results.

One of the best features of SwiftUI is being able to preview your code during development, but did you know that you can also use SwiftUI to preview your old-fashioned UIKit ViewControllers and Views?

Here’s how…

Back in November 2020, and after a few long conversations, we decided to sell everything we owned and move to Spain. Between preparations, paperwork, and a long garage sale we finally got here last week, with just a few suitcases and both our pets, Tesla and Oli.

Most of our apps rely on network calls to work, and thanks to URLSession and Codable, consuming REST APIs has become a lot easier these days. That said, we are still writing quite a bit of code to deal with async calls, JSON encoding and decoding, HTTP error handling, and more.

I’ve been with Automattic for some time, and it’s been a fantastic ride. Since I joined, people have asked me about the hiring process, so I decided to write about my experience.

If you are using Transformable properties in CoreData, there is a chance (probably when dropping iOS 12 support) that you eventually face compiler warnings about your model properties not using secure Value transformers. While figuring this out, I decided to write a post, so here it is.

Gists are short bits of code you can share and reuse. They act as lightweight repos, feature version control, and can include anything from a string to multiple files. You can also embed them on any website, which is excellent to share examples, but unfortunately, there’s no way to change the default syntax highlighting. Let’s fix that.

Most of my recent experience is in IT Consulting firms, where you usually get the chance to work on short term projects (mostly), or staff augmentation gigs, but opportunities to work on real product development are slim.