Ole Begemann

@olebegemann

Co-author of Advanced Swift: . Writes about Swift at . Also tweets as (in German).

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Joined December 2010

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  2. The Tunnels: JFK, the cold war & the Berlin Wall. We passed those escape tunnels on the bike tour this year.

  3. I wrote "Defensive Contempt in Programming" and you can blame for that.

  4. … because the optimizer “makes different inlining decisions which has effects on retain/release call removal”.

  5. Interesting example in this PR from how a change can cause a puzzling performance regression …

  6. Probably the very best thing to read to understand Trump’s popularity, is this Cracked (!) piece. Amazing:

  7. Bouke Haarsma added shell tab completion rules to the Swift Package Manager: . Very useful.

  8. I experimented with this when the 6 Plus came out:

  9. … so you’ll always lose pixel precision. Only OpenGL has a nativeScale mode to render directly to screen pixels. …

  10. … on a Plus iPhone with Core Graphics/UIKit. The Plus renders at 3× into a buffer, then scales the image down to screen dimensions (~2.6×) …

  11. When your algorithm needs overloads for half-open and closed ranges, consider extending RandomAccessCollection:

  12. A Towering Iceberg and Its Shadow Split the World into Quadrants

  13. That link is the 2010 article where revisited the topic. The original posts from 2005 (parts 1-3) are linked from there.

  14. Re-reading ’s “Avoiding Copland 2010” series is fun, knowing what happened with Swift (hindsight is 20-20).

  15. “Dear Straight White Men, Welcome to the Women’s Locker Room”.

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  16. Closures are non-escaping by default in Swift 3, but that’s not true if the closure parameter is optional:

  17. I wrote about testing libraries for package managers:

  18. Modern Family is a funny show.

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