Danijela's blog

Managing strings across a large app can quickly become chaotic and hard to maintain.

Writing a good CFP is harder than it looks.

The biggest leaps in my career came from unexpected skills I picked up along the way, through collaboration, mistakes, and the occasional awkward Slack message.

Going indie looks like freedom from the outside.

Hello World!

Symbols are essential in any app.

In this post, we'll take a look at how we can create a configurable button with pre-defined states.

You probably have views showing a label and value side by side with an HStack.

There are days where I can't wait to share something new I've learned.

Learn how to use SwiftUI’s ContentUnavailableView to handle empty states with ease.

SwiftUI makes it easy to support light and dark mode out of the box.

Enums let you define your own set of values and use them safely in code.

Creating PRs is easy.

The Swift Charts framework makes it easy to add beautiful, data-driven charts to your app.

Swift Algorithms is an open-source package full of useful sequence and collection helpers.

Localizing your app is a big part of making it more inclusive and available to people in other languages.

Writing has helped me understand technical topics on a deeper level.

Conferences are an awesome opportunity to network and meet other developers.

Typing your login credentials manually during development takes away your time and focus.

Interviews are hard.

In SwiftUI, you can use Link to open a webpage in the user’s default browser.

Card-like designs are seen often in UIs.

Creating and reviewing pull requests is part of everyday development.

When Swift’s new concurrency model debuted at WWDC 2021, everyone was eager to try it.

Ever look back on a week, month, or year and feel like you’ve done nothing?

When building apps, you often reuse the same button style with different labels and actions.

You can define build settings with Xcode configuration files, which are simple text files editable outside Xcode.

To set up a custom domain on GitHub Pages, your repo needs a CNAME file.

Implementing network connectivity monitor doesn't require a lot of code.

You’ve made changes to your website, but nothing’s updating - even after refreshing the browser.

A class diagram shows a system’s structure - its classes, attributes, methods, and relationships.

Publish comes with a default HTML theme called Foundation, meant as a starting point for building your own.

You've created your website and you're ready to show it off to the world.

Learning a new programming language is tough.

Sometimes, when parsing a JSON, you need to implement a custom Codable initializer.

Once your Publish site is up and running, here’s how to add sections and posts using Markdown instead of custom Swift.

Publish is a static site generator that lets you build website in your favourite programming language - Swift!

Attending conferences is a great way to learn, meet other developers, and share your work.

Published properties emit values over time, instantly notifying all observers of changes.