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Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and UIFont

A few months ago I tweeted this: iOS PSA: as of at least iOS 14, apps support the compressed .woff font format. This isn’t documented anywhere as far as I know. Shave some kb off your installed app size! pic.twitter.com/CudCS8VfM4 … Continue reading

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GraphQL

I’ve been lazy about blogging for the past, oh, five years or so, but I just published a new post about GraphQL over at my company’s blog. Check it out if you want to know why Apollo is bad and … Continue reading

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Blocks: A Retain Ménage à Trois

This is a topic that I have considered writing about for some time now; in fact, I have a draft post from 2011, right after I finally decided to start using blocks. That post touched on a few areas of … Continue reading

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UICollectionView’s backgroundView property is horribly broken

I want to love UICollectionView, I really do. But it continues to give me reasons to complain about it instead. I was working on some iOS 7-ish UI in our yet-to-be-announced project and trying to use the backgroundView property of … Continue reading

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Bookshelf View Controller Transition For iOS 7

Update: View Controller transitions are terribly broken in landscape. I’d advise avoiding this if you need anything other than portrait transitions. Few will debate the divisiveness of the aesthetics of iOS 7, but what many seem to have only just … Continue reading

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SMPageControl, Meet UIAccessibility

A while back we introduced SMPageControl, our drop in replacement for UIPageControl with a slew of extra bells and whistles. It was surprisingly well received, and is by far the most popular bit of open source code we’ve released to … Continue reading

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