I've been working on a side project for better CIFilter documentation lately, and I decided this was as good of a time as any to try out RxSwift. We use reactive programming at work, but I haven't really been able to dig into it yet...

Another MacOS and another struggle through installing nokogiri. Most places online recommend using...

To clear a value from UserDefaults, I previously thought it was fine to do something like this:

UserDefaults.standard.set(nil, forKey: "myKey")

Turns out that this works differently in different iOS versions. Starting in iOS 11, setting nil for a key works as I expected.

There are some times in Swift, like when using System Trace, that you want to get the pointer value of an object directly as a UInt (passing the pointer to kdebug_signpost is one). I was surprised at how hard it was to find documentation on how to get a Swift reference’s pointer value as a UInt.

Swift can be tricky sometimes. For example, what does the following print?

class A: NSObject {
  let x: Int

  init(x: Int) {
    self.x = x
  }
}
func ==(left: A, right: A) -> Bool {
  return left.x == right.x
}
print(A(x: 1) == A(x: 1))
print([A(x: 1)] == [A(x: 1)])