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2025

Chaos

In case of emergency break (empty) glass

Countdown

Delta’s 10-year journey to the top of the App Store

Debugging Closed Source Code

A decade of progress in finance is only the beginning

Back in London

A change is gonna come

Interview on the CERN Alumni Podcast

Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI

To live without fear

Two more examples of Encoding and Decoding Custom Types in Swift

People, teams, creativity and innovation

Back to the 80s and the 90s

Apple's letter to developers

Oh how far the apple has fallen from the tree

What has become of Apple?

Over a year since Apple gave me an ultimatum on Windmill

Fear, support and endurance in the face of adversity

Programming

Debt and borrowed time

Coding challenges as part of an interview

I miss London

The Windmill source code is now public

The curtain falls on Windmill

Game Awards

MacBook Pro random shutdown fix

Apple Premium Service Provider

The state of Apple hardware I currently own

The future of Windmill

3 months off Twitter

Taking back control of my life's narrative

Respect the baby steps

Kiva

Reasons I have resigned, quit or was let go of a job.

An Apple Developer for 10 years

Anxiety looks different in men (The Wall Street Journal)

Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown

Brain drain

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Despair

Where is Windmill on the iPhone?

Windmill enters egg

Swift 5.0.x String Performance

A series of steps

Climate <strike>Change</strike> Emergency

Moving the needle

iOS automation - the current state of affairs

Standing on the shoulders of giants

A life filled with music

Greek residency as a European citizen

Primitive testing of a REST API in bash

How to replace the `rootViewController` of the `UIWindow` in iOS

Anxiety and Depression

Thinking of quitting the software industry

Timing's a bitch

A primer in HTTP caching and its native support by iOS

Diversity and Inclusion

We need to raise the bar on software development

To be celebrated as a human

The price of freedom

Bitwink

Why arent we password free yet?

We need to talk about fizzbuzz

On sacrifices

On mobile

Sound Debugging

How to implement a reusable UIView

How to debug a "class JKserializer is implemented in both" case (Part 2)

How to debug a "class JKserializer is implemented in both" case (Part 1)

iOS implementation of user authentication without a password

Mockups on user identity

A post about user identity that is thought provoking on user authorisation and security, or just utter bullshit

How to trace and debug an iOS crash (Part 2)

How to trace and debug an iOS crash (Part 1)

Metrics of an object oriented world

Making wordings of numbers 27 going twentyseven

How to think of... a hash table (Part 3)

How to think of... a hash table (Part 2)

How to think of... a hash table (Part 1)

How To Think Of... Binary Search

How To Think Of... Macros

On reusability (Part 2) ...Misconceptions

On reusability (Part 1) ...Misconceptions

Why can't programmers... design software?

It's about software design - IASD

Take a step back. Take a deep breath. Take pen and paper

How To Think Of... Aspects

The beauty of software design - Designers Challenge

Urban Legends ...O Is For Object (Part 1)

The Myth ...O Is For Object (Part 2)

Revelations ...O Is For Object (Part 3)

The constructor ...Don't abuse the constructor

State Machine ...Don't Abuse The If

Inheritance ...Don't Abuse Inheritance

Encapsulation ...Don't Abuse The If

Heterogenous Containers... JSON (Part 3)

Heterogenous Containers... JSON (Part 2)

Heterogenous Containers... JSON (Part 1)

Heterogenous Containers... JDBC (Part 3)

Heterogenous Containers... JDBC (Part 2)

Heterogenous Containers... JDBC (Part 1)

Heterogenous Containers... Preamble

What Type Of Msc Do You Think Will Prove More Valuable?

How To Think Of... Recursion

Evaluation ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Conclusion ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Factory type ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Marker Interfaces ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Parse a date with a variable format

Builder type ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Followup to Recursively find and filter files in Java

Reusability ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Do you think that GAE alone is enough to justify learning Python over Ruby?

Can an Abstract Class and an Interface play nice together?

Why is 8 numbers considered a "strong" password?

Reasoning ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Do small code presentations

Use types ...Don't Abuse The If

Immutability ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Class Relationships ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Whiteboard

Preamble ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

Polymorphism ...Don't Abuse The If

Introduction ...Don't Lose Your Train Of Thoughts

You need to know grammar, not math to do Object Oriented programming

Be Pissed, Be Polite. Always Say "Good Bye!" (the Reason Behind 'finally' In A Try:catch)

I'm a developer, you are a designer, we get along. We are both Person(s) after all

Focus on your test, leave buggage behind

Everytime you write an init method a developer gets an Exception ...Simply Don't

Apply polymorphism or you will drive yourself crazy