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QT Layouts won't expand?
Suppose you're using the QT Creator to build a window, and the widgets in the window aren't expanding to fill the window. You can check the layout doco but it doesn't help much. The widgets still don't fill the window, and certainly don't resize when the…
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Morplees - cooking app
One day it'd be cool to add in support for cooklang, which is a JSON format for recipes.
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Menubar Playlist app
I'll likely want to look at Apple's docs on MusicKit. Or maybe someone else's doco...
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iOS stuff to look at
Three videos from Apple: - WWDC24: A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design - WWDC24: SwiftUI essentials - WWDC24: Xcode essentials This Swift Log package from Apple Doco on the URL Loading System A post on What to Test (and What Not to Test) in…
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Migrating WordPress
When migrating WordPress sites, eg from Staging to Prod, I might want to use an extension like All-in-One or UpdraftPlus. Not sure, but my guess is that those migrate everything ... which is good for initial deployment, but not great for ongoing…
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Pico Mac
One day, I'd like to make an emulated original Mac 512 using a Raspberry Pi Pico, like Matt Evans did. If I do that, I could just buy a pre-made board from Joe's Computer Museum. But I'm not delighted about the way he has the pico sticks out from the side…
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Nekoban
One of the ideas in the back of my head is a Sokoban app, but pushing cats on to baskets. If I ever get round to it, these assets might come in handy. The same artist also has cows that could be pushed on to patches of grass.
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Bean Heads - Character Cartoons
Want some cartoon images of characters? Try Robert Broersma's Bean Heads.
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Using @Observable in SwiftUI views
Natalia Panferova has written a post on Using @Observable in SwiftUI views which I'd like to understand better.
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Concurrency Step-by-Step
Matt Massicotte wrote a Concurrency Step-by-Step which looks like it's worth a read
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Behaviour, Structure, and Performance
Aviel Gross has written a post on Behaviour, Structure, and Performance in iOS.
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Chloe’s Laws of SwiftUI
Chloe has written an Opinionated and Biased Law of SwiftUI and I think it's worth a read
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iOS Navigation Patterns
An outline of Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
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MeasurementFormatter
When displaying distance (or length) to the user, you want MeasurementFormatter.
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Link to Any Text
If you want to have a URL that links to any text on a page, even if there is no anchor at that point, then check this page about Scroll to Text Fragment Instead of linking to a regular anchor like #my_anchor, you add #:~:text=some%20text. So for example…
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Magic Replace
For some pairs of SF symbols, you can replace one with another using a "magic" transition. See Natalia Panferova's how-to for more, or the demo on Apple's doco page.
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Parsing Dates Without Times
From everyone’s favourite Eskimo … https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/655000 tl;dr - just save the separate bits.
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Cues
Some time, I want to understand the docs for MagicQ well enough to copy the fixtures for my local comunity theatre, out of MagicQ and in to QLC+.
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Example Structs
When making a 'Struct', particularly if it's to be used with SwiftUI, it's a good idea to add an example. static let example = Location(id: UUID(), name: "Buckingham Palace", latitude: 51.501, longitude: -0.141) This is particularly helpful for Previews.
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SVG Editor
Maybe try SVG-Edit