I started a project I’m calling WordJunk. On of the inspirations is Merlin Mann’s Wisdom Project. Listening to Reconcilable Differences, I was inspired by the sheer joy Merlin has been getting with this project. The nuggets of wisdom are really fun to read and most bring a smile ot my face. With WordJunk, I wondered what I can do with this information? A lot? A little? In any case, the wisdom nuggets are something interesting to read while I’m debugging or reading developer documentation.

Property Wrappers are one of my favorite additions to Swift 5.1. If you haven’t read about them before, check out the proposal and this NSHipster article. They are very similar to Kotlin’s delegated properties, but the syntax is similar to Java’s annotations. It may not be readily apparent, but one really nice feature of Property Wrappers is you can create “read only” property wrappers. These are properties that you can read from, but not write.

Here is the talk I gave for PhillyCocoa on Automating Xcode Builds & Distribution. links WWDC 2012 Session 404 - Building from the Command Line with Xcode Xcode Build Setting Reference Xcode “Build and Archive” from the command line - Stack Overflow Distributing Enterprise Apps for iOS Devices xcodebuild-rb - Building Xcode projects with Rake Shenzhen - CLI for Building & Distributing iOS Apps Cupertino - CLI for the Apple Dev Center Xcodeproj - Create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby Jenkins - An extendable open source continuous integration server Jenkins Xcode Plugin HockeyApp TestFlight cisimple