Hola, You’ll be glad to know that the winter hasn’t completely halted my progress. Granted, I took two weeks off and barely worked the other two but, I have not written over the last month because of a technical challenge rather than procrastination. Cocoapods in Extensions I’m sure every developer who’s built something for the… Continue reading Google Authentication in App and Extensions
Category: Winter
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” ― Virginia Woolf
A Slow Winter
The days have gotten cold, the nights colder and with them, the pace of progress on my app has gone glacial. I wanted to achieve two goals in the last two weeks, 1. To design v1 of my app and 2. To whip up a widget showing the number of users visiting this website. I… Continue reading A Slow Winter
Management, Reporting, and SwiftUI
Ok, Where were we. Aah, yes, the Google Analytics Reporting API. The goal for the last two weeks was to hack my way through the reporting API and fetch user’s data. I’m pleased to say that endeavor has been successful 🥳. It has not been plain sailing (like always) but, I got there in the end.… Continue reading Management, Reporting, and SwiftUI
Authentication and Authorization
The last time I wrote one of these was during a visit to API hell. Two weeks on, I can gladly say that stay has been a short one, and even though there are recurring nightmares, My understanding of them has increased and I have grown to appreciate their design. My goal was to implement Google authentication… Continue reading Authentication and Authorization
APIs, APIs, and more APIs
As planned in the last post, The time I could allocate in these last 2 weeks has been spent on research. I started off with the WidgetKit API, This led to setting up of the project and conducting other pre-development maintenance. It’s stuff I love to do, even though I always end up redoing it 🤷♂️.… Continue reading APIs, APIs, and more APIs
The Light Bulb
I love widgets on iOS 14. I love the idea of glancing at data without having to go into an app and give it your full attention. I wish more apps would do it but, even if they did, The action of downloading an app to get access to a widget is cumbersome. So, The… Continue reading The Light Bulb
Halloween through Friendship
The most important part of this chapter and to their friendship is the lie. Hermione’s lie to take the blame for finding herself in the bathroom with the troll through no fault of her own. I know the feeling of absolute loneliness seconds before certain death can translate into greater questioning of everyday life but,… Continue reading Halloween through Friendship
The Midnight Duel through Betrayal
The thing about betrayal is that the circumstances don’t matter, the end results don’t matter. The social contract is broken as soon as you act on going against your word. Harry and Ron are breaking the implicit social contract they have with the fellow members of their house by acting on their selfish urges. To… Continue reading The Midnight Duel through Betrayal
The Potions Master through Promises
Me: Salut! Sane Me: Bonjour Me: Why do I need to write this again? Sane Me: Because you promised Me: Who? Sane Me: Yourself Me: Why? Sane Me: Because you wanted to get good at writing. Me: That doesn’t sound like me. Sane Me: Remember the day you spent dreaming about writing YA novels and being a… Continue reading The Potions Master through Promises
Sorting Hat through Vulnerability
Okay so, This is gonna be short and quick, mostly because the chapter is short and not filled with references to Vulnerability. There are a couple of them but, before I get there, I’d like to define Vulnerability. Vulnerability is being naked, It’s exposing yourself to the elements of nature and saying, The ball’s in… Continue reading Sorting Hat through Vulnerability