Neil Macy

This is quite a mixed album.

I usually love the latest gadgets, but I’ve started keeping two older devices beside my bed, and using them frequently over the last few weeks.

This is great atmospheric music.

I’m not a big pop music person, or a big Taylor Swift person.

I spent a lot of time hearing people talk about git reflog without actually knowing what it did or how to use it.

It took a year or so, but this album has really grown on me.

I love Jimmy Eat World's mix of energy and slow burners.

In a project I'm currently working on, our SwiftUI Previews are broken.

A while ago, I created a button in SwiftUI.

I'm currently working on a project to enhance the accessibility of an app, and I'm learning a lot about how far iOS's accessibility support goes beyond a screen reader.

I was a Todoist user for the best part of the last decade.

Nostalgia time.

Sometimes, unit tests don't give you the same result each time.

One of my favourite keyboard shortcuts in Xcode: CTRL-\ lets you move quickly to the next change in a file, tracking git changes.

Swift Testing is the new framework for unit testing in Swift.

Fun little fact about the favicon on both neilmacy.co.uk and runningtrack.app.

I just came across a couple of posts by Johnny Decimal and Chris McLeod about getting up early.

My new iOS app, Running Track, is now available as a beta via TestFlight.

WWDC is an annual, week-long event, which delivers lots of new API for developers to build on.

I recently became a homeowner for the first time.

I've used an iPhone as my personal phone since 2009, but I've used Android alongside that, off and on, for most of time.

In date formatting, yyyy is not the same as YYYY.

I really like this description of git rebase, from this Atlassian tutorial. rebasing is changing the base of your branch from one commit to another making it appear as if you’d created your branch from a different commit.

I’ve written before about my home screens.

This is one of my favourite books.

At the start of the year, I wrote my personal challenges for 2023.

When working with a team of developers, big or small, it's really valuable to keep your PRs as small as possible.

I really liked this article from Steph Ango, aka kepano on Mastodon, on the difference between industrial and independent software makers.

I read this article about default app choices by Robb Knight and thought it sounded fun.

When you update to a new version of Xcode, you can often be left with older versions of the simulator hanging around.

A short story by Ian Rankin, famous for the Rebus series set in Edinburgh.

I’ve been on a big Green Day kick recently.

Xcode 15 has a new Bookmarks feature that looks like it will be really handy.

I’ve not worked on Running Track for a while.

Apple keeps reminding us that the best way to write new apps is with SwiftUI.

I was working on some code in my day job recently and trying to figure out how something in a shared library worked.

This is a really useful little operator for debugging Combine code.

Fun fact about Bleed American: it was released two months before 9/11, so it swiftly got renamed to be an eponymous album in case it was considered insensitive.

I find it fascinating to read about home screens.

The Two Towers, like the other volumes of The Lord of the Rings,is split into two books (Part 3 and Part 4, I'll refer to them, to reflect their place in the overall story).

Giving something a score is incredibly subjective.

I'm a big fan of keeping things vague and seeing how they develop.

I was watching videos from Blink-182's Coachella performance and reading the set list, I realised it was really heavily weighted to Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.

I wouldn't have listened to this, if Spotify hadn't pushed the 20th anniversary version of the album.

The First James Bond novel.

I really enjoy writing blog posts.

I absolutely love Anthem Part Two, for two reasons.

I've spent a little while recently getting Running Track ready for release.

Andy Bell experienced a power cut, and thought he'd check the UK Power Networks website to find out.

For a few years I've set myself a reading challenge.