Swift development tips and experiences by Tommi Kivimäki
I like dark mode. I also noticed that the colors in Camping Finland were partly broken in iOS dark mode. It was clear that dark mode support had to be the first iOS 13 feature to build.
I often need to check if a directory exists in Linux. However the Foundation on Linux does not have the
fileExists(atPath:isDirectory:) method.
I make apps for Linux, macOS and iOS using Swift.
Swift is a fast, safe and modern language with a really nice feature set. I use it for most of my projects, because it provides a great developer experience and excellent performance. It's a perfect fit for Linux, macOS and iOS apps.
I build server side software using Swift and open source framework called Vapor. This gives me very high performance applications with a small memory footprint. It translates into very cost effetive cloud applications. I make the development, testing and deployment on Linux using Docker. Working with open source is very rewarding.
The camping holiday guide in Finland. For iPhone.
The app features camping sites, national parks, overnight stays and highlights the most important service at the sites. It calculates travel time and distance estimates and provides turn-by-turn navigation.
Camping Finland includes all the motorhome and caravan shops and most of the service shops.
Quick and easy way to look inside Final Cut Pro X libraries. Libi shows you all the events inside a library with some detailed information like when the library was last modified or when an event was last edited.
Size on disk shows which libraries and events eat most of your disk space and a visual Render Files Ratio display tells how much of the event size is allocated by generated render files.