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Updated September 22nd, 2024 to use the new TimeDataSource in the examples, not a TimelineView.

Updated November 19th, 2022 to include clarity around setting the TimeZone and/or Calendar on the Verbatim Format Style.

Foundation’s Measurement type is an incredibly useful tool in an Apple developer’s toolkit.

I’ve been toiling away in the format style mines for the last month off and on as I’ve been fully documenting the new FormatStyle stuff that Apple has been including in the Xcode 14 betas.

Have your Xcode Extensions ever just… disappeared on you (usually after a crash)?

So you’ve read the gosh darn site and know how to get strings from data types..

TL;DR Xcode Playground or Examples as Gist The venerable (NS)Formatter class (and Apple’s various subclasses) are an Objective-C based API that is most well known as the go-to method for converting data types into strings.

Another year, another WWDC.

Hello there!

In your career, do you have a technical problem that you know you’ve solved multiple times, but it’s infrequent enough that the lessons of how to actually implement never seem to stick around in your brain?