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. How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views

   The relative sizing modifier interacts in an interesting way with stack views and other containers that distribute the available space among their children. Understanding why can teach us a lot about SwiftUI’s layout algorithm. More >

   March 24, 2023

2. Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout

   A SwiftUI layout and view modifier for relative sizing. “Make this view 50 % of the width of its container”. More >

   March 23, 2023

3. Keyboard shortcuts for Export Unmodified Original in Photos for Mac

   A shell script that assigns a keyboard shortcut to the Unmodified Originals menu command in Photos on the Mac. More >

   March 21, 2023

4. Swift Evolution proposals in Alfred

   I fixed Karoy Lorentey’s swift-evolution workflow for Alfred. More >

   March 9, 2023

5. Pattern matching on error codes

   Foundation overloads the pattern matching operator ~= to enable matching against error codes in catch clauses. More >

   February 27, 2023