Here is a template you can use to automatically set up GitHub actions in your iOS-based project. name: "Build and Test" on: push: branches: - development - beta pull_request: jobs: build_test: name: Run tests runs-on: macOS-11 env: XCODE_VERSION: "13.0" steps: - name: Select XCode…

https://hoyelam.com/why-the-five-day-workweek-should-be-seven/ The current five-workday week is broken and doesn’t reflect on the modern world. In a world where everything is connected and 24/7 available, the five-workday week is stupid. Where did the five-workday week come from in the first place? Well, we can trace it all back to the bible…

Available on my personal blog as well. With Growrilla 1.5.0 released, users can now share their progress more easily. Thus I also want to share how I did it. First, we have the make the `UIActivityViewController` usable with SwiftUI. Thus we are going to wrap it around a `UIViewControllerRepresentable`. struct…

One week ago, I released a new iOS application called Think Drop. The main features are simple. Drop your thoughts into an app without the need of sharing it to anybody. This includes other features like encryption, thread support, statistics, pinning and sharing to Twitter. …

My thoughts on the performance, display, keyboard, IO and more on the MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018. — Before diving in on what I think of the MacBook Pro, I think that some background information is required about my personal laptop usage. So, I am primarily working as an iOS engineer, thus make intensive use of Xcode and developing mobile applications. I also do some lightweight Android, backend…

There has been a lot talk about the downsides of phone usage. In particular, social media consumption. Somehow using your smartphone for long hour sessions is now considered a bad thing. It can increase the likelihood of depression and in worse case lead to suicide. …

As a biased user of my own app, there were a lot of flaws in the Esports Calendar iOS app. The last UI and UX design had two downsides and also missed an important feature: Old design of the Esports Calendar iOS app 1. Esports Calendar did not had ‘modern’ UI In a period where a lot of applications is pushing for dark-mode (i.e. Apple MacOS…

The process of building a side project: OnCircleCI — A simple CI client. — OnCircleCI provides a simple iOS mobile application to keep track of your Circle CI build statuses. As most of you know, there are limited mobile applications available on the market when it comes to Circle CI. Thus, I created my own. OnCircleCI OnCircleCI works as follows. You authenticate yourself by providing…

Last week, I released the esports calendar application in the app store. A calendar showing upcoming esports matches from various videogames. These videogames were League of Legends, Dota 2 and Overwatch. I suggested in my last post that CS:GO support could take a while. But, I managed to find some time this week to completely finish it. This involved software development within the backend and also the iOS app itself.