Digital Flapjack: swift

Building search with Server-Side Swift

21 Aug 2022 - IR, search, swift

Some notes from my first experiments in writing a light-weight server-side Swift project, as I build a search-engine for my various websites.

Sharing code in multi-target swift package

17 Aug 2022 - development, swift

How to make a SPM project that contains multiple executables using shared code, without adding another project.

Processing geospatial data at render time on GPUs using Shaders

24 Jul 2022 - 4C, geospatial, geotiff, gpu, metal, shaders, swift

Taking the batch processing I was doing with geospatial data in the last post and instead doing the same visualisation in real time on the GPU using shaders.

Failure strategies vs Swift optionals

15 Jun 2018 - development, swift

How I disapproved of forced unwrapping optionals in Swift in general, but have made my peace with the existence of the operator in practice.

Encoding and decoding polymorphic objects in Swift

29 May 2018 - development, swift

Some notes on trying to keep the flexibile approach to data-structures within the safety net of a type-strict language like Swift.

Tags > swift

Building search with Server-Side Swift

Sharing code in multi-target swift package

Processing geospatial data at render time on GPUs using Shaders

Failure strategies vs Swift optionals

Encoding and decoding polymorphic objects in Swift