Hi, I’m Ole. I’m a developer from Berlin and co-author of Advanced Swift. Here, I mainly write about Swift and app development on Apple platforms. More about me.

1. Chris Lattner on the origins of Swift

   In episode 1 of the Swift Community Podcast, Chris Lattner, Garric Nahapetian, and John Sundell talked about the origins and the current state of Swift. This is an edited transcript of the most interesting parts of the conversation. More >

   February 18, 2019

2. My favorite books 2018

   Listed in the order I read them. The list includes some fiction, some non-fiction. Few tech books. Some are in English, some in German. Some on serious topics, and some light entertainment. One children’s book and one photo book. More >

   December 27, 2018

3. Small Fry

   Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir Small Fry is one of the best books I’ve read this year. More >

   November 30, 2018

4. Splitting a Swift Sequence into head and tail

   Writing a generic function for destructuring a Sequence into a head and a tail that preserves the sequence’s subsequence type and works for single-pass sequences is a little tricky. More >

   November 29, 2018

5. Roy Fielding’s REST dissertation

   I recently read Roy Fielding’s 2000 PhD thesis in which he introduced REST. Here’s what I learned. More >

   October 31, 2018