Day 2 was fun to implement but…

I find that elf very suspicious. How does he know what another elf will play? Is he a demon that can see into the future?
And why would that elf help me? He could keep this knowledge for himself and secure a place near the snacks tent.
🤔

JoyRant build 14:

New big feature: User Profiles!

You know how it works: Tap on a user and it will open the Profile View with all of the related user info and functions.
Only "Subscribe to User" is missing but it will be added later.

Other changes:
* Support for other image types like WEBP for upload
* Fixed notification badge autoupdate
* Improved Notifications View by not blocking when switching categories
* and many other improvements in functionality and style

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

Next big Feature will be weekly rant topics.

I’m currently working on the profile view in JoyRant, which turns out to be much more work than I thought.

Anyway, after many iterations on the appearance, I’m now finally satisfied about how it looks and works. Especially the category picker (Rants, ++’s, Comments, Favorites).

What do you think? Do you like it?

In the macOS app "Keychain", if you search for something ("fork" in this case), you can’t delete it from the results directly. To delete it, you need to select it in the list without searching, which of course defeats the purpose.
WTF is this? This can’t be on purpose right?

(Sorry for the bad photo instead of a screenshot)

Installed SonarQube and Snyk on the CI/CD of a 2.5 year old project that only had a linter enabled previously.

Practically zero problems found. One minor problem (same code in different branches), a few false positives, and a few possible problems in dependencies that I have no control over.

Now wondering:
Am I really that good or are those tools just shit?

JoyRant build 12:

* Copy Rant Link
* Customize Accent Color

That’s right! You can pick your favorite color as the accent color of JoyRant in the settings.

The new ColorPicker in SwiftUI is really great!

New JoyRant TestFlight build 11:

* Posting Rants
* Improved Notifications Category selection UI with unread indicators (screenshot attached)

Posting this rant from JoyRant right now 😄

The app is now in a state what I consider to be the first major milestone.

There are still features missing (see github https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...) but the most important and most frequently used stuff is done.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

JoyRant new TestFlight build 10

Images and gifs are fully functional now! 😄

What’s new:

* Images can be tapped to be shown in fullscreen, zoomable and can be saved
* Gif animations can be uploaded and played in fullscreen
* updating notifications when app becomes active

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

JoyRant new version:
* delete rant
* selectable text in rants and comments
* proper badge on Notifications tab, showing number of unread notifications!
* mention suggestions for comments!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

Here is a screenshot of the mention suggestions above the keyboard:

It collects all the user names from the comments, except for the user of the rant’s author and the logged in user.

Have fun 😄

I think posting rants will be next.

Kinda weird posting it directly after @OmerFlame but…

JoyRant has image upload now.
With image preview. Great idea, no worries about uploading your dick pics by accident, now. Forgot the name of the guy who suggested it 😄

And there is a macOS version in TestFlight, too.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

Thanks to @OmerFlame for SwiftRant, btw! 😄

I had to rename my unofficial devRant client SwiftUIRant due to some concerns from Apple regarding the term Swift in the app name. 🙄

Well, it’s JoyRant now. 😁

And there is a new test version in TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

* External links in rants and comments open the URL in the browser.
* Rant links in rants and comments open the rant in the app.

Enjoy testing and let me know what you think about the app! ☺️

Finally got SwiftUIRant into TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

This first version supports rant feed, notifications, ++/—, and commenting, essentially.

Posting rants and uploading images will be in the next major version.

I will also add proper notification badges later. For now it’s just text. A star (*) indicates unread notification categories.

I’m curious for your feedback 😄

Github project:
https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

I’ve abandoned the classic for loop from my tool belt for quite a long time now. The vast majority of the code is functional.

But today I’ve encountered a problem where I’m considering to use the imperative for loop again because I can’t come up with a good functional approach.

Maybe you guys have an idea.

I have a list of items and I want to make a new list which is like the original list, but it has extra items in between of some other items.

The tricky part is that there is a condition that needs to be checked for each pair of items to determine if the new item should be inserted in between. Otherwise nothing should be inserted.

Apparently, HERE Maps supports transport via spaceship 😲

I don’t know if this is a joke or not but it’s in the API documentation:

https://developer.here.com/document...

white-trash.png sounds like a fitting name

Notifications UI in SwiftUIRant.

I don’t want to just copy the UI of the official app.
So I’ve made a few changes:
Always displaying the name of the user and other stuff that makes it easier to scan visually, I hope.

Feedback is welcome.

PO1: Hey, PO2 just told me that he experiences a lot of crashes in our iOS app!

Me: Whoa! The app hasn’t had any crashes since ages. The testers haven’t reported crashes either. (Me in panic mode). I will ask PO2 about some details about the crashes.

Me to PO2: So, can you please describe me when the crash happens?

PO2: (long story about error messages and UI quirks and how he force quits the app to make them disappear)

Me: OK thanks for that info. Those are definitely valid problems that we have not encountered yet. But none of them are crashes. So are there any other problems that cause crashes?

PO2: Yes and no. (Long story and more problems)

Me: ok we need to investigate that. But are there crashes?

PO2: (Something that doesn’t answer the question)

Me: I need to ask explicitly again: Are there actual crashes where the app closes itself automatically?

PO2: No, that has never happened.

While while is still useful sometimes, all hope is lost for for.
For each for each that I use, I love it more and more.

Update on my devRant client SwiftUIRant:

I’m experimenting with some UI changes compared to the official app.

* vote buttons are laid out horizontally and placed above the rant to not waste space on the left side.
* comments count shows 0 comments instead of disappearing.
* rants are not cut off but visible in full length (I plan to add a toggle setting for that)
* creation date/time is present in the feed
* date/time formatter uses the current system region and the language english. So no more awkward American dates for non American users.

What do you think?

Switch your tech stack or programming language or development framework to something that you enjoy more.
If it requires to switch the company, do it!
If it requires to learn something new and you think that you don‘t want to, then it‘s probably the wrong goal.

I’ve started a new devRant iOS client with SwiftUI.

https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

I’ve watched the Vsauce episode about rotation again the other day.
The one where Michael explains how gyroscopes were used to measure the rate of rotation of the earth.
And I realized that this is another nice proof against the flat earth crap.
And it should be easy to test, too.

Somewhat related, the cloud formations due to the coriolis effect can be seen as a proof (for the globe) as well.

What is the "Stories" section (second bottom tab) in devRant? It looks like regular rants but grouped differently? I don’t get it.

Mentions are broken again

!rant
Loving the the fact that constructors in Swift (initializers) can fail (returning null/nil) and be async.

In C# there is no other way than using static methods instead.

Devs: Hey, what should we do?

A:
provide our SDKs for download as easily as possible so that any potential customer can try it out and see how much better we are compared to our competitors?

Or…
B:
Should we lock our SDKs behind a login where the customer needs to create an account and enter the most amount of private information possible, just in case, then also require to create some security access tokens that he needs to configure in his app to have access to our service via the sdk and also hide all of the documentation behind a login which requires some permission based roles to access and also make the sdks closed source so that it’s a pain in the ass to debug and understand?

Marketing people:
B! Definitely B! Make sure to piss off and annoy our customers as much as humanly possible!

!rant
So, Rust again.
When I learned that Rust doesn’t support inheritance, only traits (interfaces), I was shocked at first.

Then I tried to remember when the last time was that I have used inheritance in the code that I write (not the code that I use).

And I could remember an instance some months ago. But I also remember that I was very unsatisfied with that design and refactored it to use composition instead. And it was much better.

One of Rust’s properties is that many good practices in other programming languages are enforced rules in Rust.
And in case of inheritance, it seems like Rust decided that composition over inheritance is such a good practice that it should be a rule.

I’m not 100% convinced that there never will be cases where inheritance is better. But I still like this radical idea of forcing the devs to do it "the right way" in the majority of (if not all) cases.

I think many devs will disagree.
What do you think?

Looking further into Rust, the macros are quite sexy. My first reaction was "omg really"? But then I learned that macros in Rust are nothing like macros in C++.

Again, comparing with my favorite language Swift, it feels like Rust macros are somewhat similar to result builders (formerly named function builders). Or they they have a similar purpose. Both evaluate to some type safe result at compile time and are a perfect tool to make DSLs.

But Rust’s macros can do even more than that. It’s truly amazing.

Wondered what that checkmark on a youtube channel means. Googled it. The summarized official answer:

Most used open source project?

Swift