Post-Weekend Reading, August 29, 2016

Published: Mon, 08/29/16

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Happy Monday fellow Clean Swifters.

First off, my apologies for not getting this weekend-reading published on Friday! I wouldn't be human I couldn't admit that the end of the summer is really busy, and while I wanted to get this out on Friday, life got in the way. That doesn't mean the links stop coming though, or that you should skip sharpening that axe. I'll just be setting aside a little more time this week to catch up. Here's what caught my eye last week.

Giveaway

I'm also trying something new. I've been posting questions over the past few weeks to you, and I'm looking for a little audience involvement.

How do you practice your craft?

Reply to this email with an answer to this question, and I'll pick one person at random to win a $5 Starbucks gift card. I'll also include your quote next week.

Happy cleaning, Andy

Little Bites of Cocoa

Testing network requests can be tricky. Generating mock data, handling HTTP routes, etc. Thing get complicated quickly. Kakapo helps tame all that. I'm always looking for new testing tools.

swifting.io

The diagram on this blog post that visually conveys the new access control changes in Swift 3 is worth the visit alone.

amirrajan.net

Despite the click-baity title I thought this article looked really interesting. I have a particular passion for iterative software development. I love talking through decisions that play over how perfect can be the enemy of good enough in shipping software. It's encouraging to know that you don't need to perfect something for v1.0.0 to experience App Store success.

Ash Furrow

If you make a mistake, you would want a colleague to point it out to you, right? Just like you would hope a colleague would ask a question when they don’t understand something, and just like you want everyone on your team to speak up with ideas, even if they’re unconventional. But chances are that you’ve been in the position to speak up before and haven’t. Why? It feels like those scenarios represent a good team dynamic, but what effect do they have on a team’s performance? And how can we begin to change a team’s dynamic to improve its performance?

Cocoacasts

Even though most operators in Swift look and behave the same way they do in other programming languages, there are a few you may not know about or that behave in a slightly different manner. Bart sums it up nicely in this short article.

www.cocoawithlove.com

If you're looking for some deep discussion on error handling in Swift, this looks like the article for you. And what's more, it's only part 1.

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cleanswifter.com

The Speech Framework in iOS 10 provides awesome power for transcribing speech to text. Here are some SFSpeechRecognizer tips I discovered.

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