Issue 159
Mar 21, 2023

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Closures and retain cycles can be hard to understand, but I find this article (and video!) from Vincent Pradeilles doing a great job explaining three common mistakes.

Although it’s likely an edge case to implement this in your app, it’s great to see Vicente Garcia explaining how it works. I learned something new!

Majid Jabrayilov explains how you can measure the performance of a piece of code. Measuring is essential when refactoring for performance.

This article by Paul Samuels builds up nicely toward a great alternative to testable closures. The use of structs and convenience functions to add namespaces is clever.

I wasn’t aware of this shortcut demonstrated by Lee Kah Seng!

Use a webhook to upload a build to TestFlight when a GitHub comment matches “upload to TestFlight”. Pol Piella tells you how to make this work using the App Store Connect Swift SDK.

I love the level of detail David Smith puts into its app. I agree that we used to do pixel-perfect designs more often back in the day, although the right tools could make a change.