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Iva Horn

Notes from a software engineer for iPhone, iPad and Mac apps.

Easy Nextcloud Test Container

December 18, 2024 • #Docker #Nextcloud

How to quickly and easily spin up a Docker container with Nextcloud for testing core features quickly.

Federated Nextcloud Development Environment

November 28, 2024 • #Docker #Nextcloud

Verifying one feature I had to implement requires two Nextcloud development instances talking to each other. This is how I figured it out.

Back From Parental Leave

November 1, 2024

I was on parental leave for the last three months and in regard to the main topic of this blog they went differently than I expected.

iPad Pro 11-inch M4 (2024)

October 28, 2024 • #Apple #Hardware #IPad #IPad Pro #IPad OS

I bought an iPad Pro with a 11-inch display and the latest M4 chip and was surprised and pleased.

What's new in Xcode 16

July 17, 2024 • #MacOS #WWDC #WWDC24 #Xcode #Xcode 16

No big thing worth mentioning for me - except one.

What's new in AppKit (2024)

July 10, 2024 • #AppKit #MacOS #WWDC #WWDC24

Small but useful improvements in the name of convergence. Nothing amazing, though.

Swift Testing

June 25, 2024 • #Apple #Swift #WWDC #WWDC24

During WWDC24, Apple finally introduced a “swifty” test framework to replace XCTest.

WWDC24

June 15, 2024 • #Apple #WWDC #WWDC24

This is my personal and subjective summary of Apple’s keynote and state of the union during its worldwide developer conference 2024.

Workers Instead of Managers

May 18, 2024 • #Concurrency #Swift

Breaking down individual features of domain-oriented managers into dedicated implementations improves developer experience.

SwiftUI Platform-Dependent Padding Modifier

March 28, 2024 • #IOS #IPad OS #MacOS #Swift #SwiftUI

Some SwiftUI views I have require padding one platform and none on the other. To avoid preprocessor switches everywhere I created a custom view modifier for it.