SwiftUI’s Label Improves Accessibility
What’s the difference between these two pieces of SwiftUI?
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Using SwiftUI’s .task instead of .onAppear
As I’ve been learning SwiftUI, there are times that I’ve wanted to run some async code when a view appeared. The straightforward translation of that intent i...
SwiftUI ToolbarItem with .status placement doesn’t appear
I recently was trying to add a ToolbarItem to the .bottomBar or .status ToolbarItemPlacement and it would not appear. It appears to have been a bug in Naviga...
macOS Shortcuts: Reading a text file without a .txt extension
Today I set out to build some time tracking Shortcuts on macOS. I’m using Ledger’s time keeping capabilities and I wanted to read the last line of my data fi...
Conditional Git Configuration
I’m about to start a new job that uses GitHub. I’ll be using my existing GitHub account but with a work email for any repositories in the work organization. ...
iPad’s Hardware Escape Key
I build this website from my iPad Pro using the Blink shell to mosh into a Raspberry Pi. My primary tools there are vim, tmux, and jekyll. The lack of a hard...
Per-Directory Environment Variables with direnv
While tinkering with ledger, it was a pain to constantly specify the input file. The app supports a LEDGER_FILE environment variable, but it didn’t make sens...
Group Apps in the macOS Dock
I recently found a post on /r/macOS that showed groups of apps in the dock.
Uploading Files to EC2 with Blink
The Blink shell is a powerful ssh/mosh iOS app for developers. But how do you upload files from your device to your remote machine? Blink also has a local sh...
Jekyll on AWS
This was originally written in February 2019. In April 2020, I updated the website to be hosted on GitLab Pages. I learned a lot by setting it up on AWS, whi...