Skye Freeman

A core feature of any programming languages is the ability to model and manipulate text. When defining a variable that represents text, we traditionally call it a string. In Swift, strings are a series of encoding-independent unicode characters. This means that any character can be accessed directly by their unicode...

One of the great features of Swift’s collection implementation is the first party support of various “higher order” functions like map, filter and reduce. When Objective-C still reigned supreme, the iOS open-source community created their own abstractions in an attempt to make Objective-C more functional. While the community did a...

Starting a blog has been on my todo list for a while now, I can finally check it off! I thought that a good place to start might be a look back at my year in programming. Being a new year, there’s no better time for reflection. Right out of...