Blog

• 11th April, 2017

  Adding iOS Dynamic Type Support to Better

  Making Better more accessible using Dynamic Type in the app and browser.

• 29th Nov, 2016

  Better Styles Through ems

  Using ems, reducing repetition, and improving SVG icons.

• 29th Jul, 2016

  A note about client-side-only JavaScript in Set templates

  Separating client-side and server-side functionality.

• 21st Jul, 2016

  Update to GitLab Admin

  Useful if you’re working with the GitLab API and need quick access to group, project, and milestone IDs.

• 18th Jul, 2016

  Swift libraries update

  All our Swift libraries now support Swift 2.2.1, 2.3, and 3.

• 29th Mar, 2016

  Running Fastlane Boarding on Dokku

  Boarding is a Ruby on Rails app for setting up a TestFlight sign-up page for your app…

• 28th Mar, 2016

  Setting up GitHub single sign-on

  Via OmniAuth on GitLab (Omnibus package)

• 15th Dec, 2015

  New Handle (v2.0.7) and Delay (v1.0.7) Swift micro-library releases

  Both libraries are now fat frameworks that build seamlessly for iOS and OS X and are Carthage compatible.

• 1st Dec, 2015

  Caching page view controllers in UIPageViewController

  I’ve seen a number of tutorials on the web where a…

• 23rd Oct, 2015

  Applying Flexbox to the Video Player

  Using CSS Flexbox to make the video player layout more robust.

• 23rd Oct, 2015

  Set 2.0 release

  I just released version 2.0 of Set, my unobtrusive JavaScript template engine for Node.js and browsers.

• 12th May, 2015

  Using System Headers In Swift

  CocoaPods to the rescue.

• 20th Apr, 2015

  Handle

  A Swift micro-library for easily and expressively handling and posting notifications.

• 20th Apr, 2015

  Delay

  A Swift micro-library for easily and expressively delaying execution of code.

• 12th Apr, 2015

  Gracefully running node as an NSTask in Cocoa

  Tasks created by your app should be automatically terminated if your app crashes or when you kill your app by pressing the stop button in Xcode. They’re not. This sample app shows one way around the problem by having your child task terminate itself if its parent dies.

• 6th Apr, 2015

  Animating Cocoa Window Size When Using Auto Layout

  A simple example showing you how to cleanly change the window size when your views use auto layout.

• 31st Mar, 2015

  NSSplitViewController Auto Layout Bug and Workaround

  Setting one of the two split view items in an NSSplitViewController as collapsed in Interface Builder can cause a runtime constraints error.

• 23rd Mar, 2015

  SecRandomCopyBytes, or: Playing Unsafe with Swift

  There are many ways to generate random data on iOS and OS X, but I wanted to use this one because it is suitable for cryptographic purposes.

• 27th Feb, 2015

  Avoiding double-wrapped optionals with conditional downcasting

  Cast away your double-wrapped optionals in Swift.

• 26th Feb, 2015

  App Sandbox: Updating NSUserDefaults fails after deleting app’s container directory

  TL;DR: You didn’t empty the trash.

• 17th Feb, 2015

  Universal Video Player Update

  Small tweaks to button icons and order of sound buttons.

• 16th Feb, 2015

  Expand and collapse accessibility on the Ind.ie manifesto

  Using WAI-ARIA attributes can make expanding and collapsing content more accessible.

• 15th Feb, 2015

  Node 0.12.0 and native add-on modules

  If your Node projects depend on native add-on modules, they might break in Node 0.12.0.

• 15th Feb, 2015

  Installing NPM packages from GitLab repositories

  If you want to install an NPM package from a GitLab repository, use the git+https (or git+http) protocol, not git:// or https://.

• 13th Feb, 2015

  Build-time optimisation with Xcode build scripts

  Running a shell script during the Xcode build process lets you do some powerful things. I’m using it to cut down the size of the Heartbeat binary.

• 30th Jan, 2015

  Firing on all cylinders

  Pulse Swift Hack Weekend and Heartbeat pre-alpha