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Crash Course: Unicode Strings for iOS Developers
A fast, practical crash course on Unicode and Swift’s String: normalization, equality, hashing, etc.
Feb 22
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Unicode String
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Unicode Normalization Explains Why Backspace Sometimes Takes More Than One Tap
How NFC, NFD, and NFKC editing behavior
Feb 20
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How Swift String Equality Affects Dictionaries and Sets
Comparing strings for equality is always performed using Unicode canonical representation.
Feb 2
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Canonical Equivalence and Set<String> in Swift
How Unicode normalization affects Set's hashing and equality
Jan 30
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Replacing text in a string using replacingOccurrences(of:)
Swift’s replacingOccurrences can break flag emojis. Learn why NSString replaces across grapheme clusters, and how to fix it.
Jan 15
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Xcode
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Where Apple Expects You to Store Your Xcode Projects
The ~/Developer Folder: Apple’s Preferred Home for Xcode Projects
Jan 21
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What Does the "Text Encoding" Option in Xcode Mean?
Default Xcode UTF encoding is UTF-8.
Dec 8, 2025
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Xcode Quick Actions
Execute Xcode's menu items as command-line tools in Terminal
Nov 14, 2025
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What Does the Line Endings Option in Xcode 26.1 Mean?
A developer-level breakdown of line endings, cross-platform quirks, and Xcode’s misleading setting.
Nov 10, 2025
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Swift Programming Language
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Syntax (Syntactic) vs. String Semantics
The Most Used Word Nobody Clearly Defines: Semantics
Jan 27
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Replacing text in a string using replacingOccurrences(of:)
Swift’s replacingOccurrences can break flag emojis. Learn why NSString replaces across grapheme clusters, and how to fix it.
Jan 15
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Can Swift run without the standard library?
Built-ins, compiler internals, and the limits of “bare Swift”
Jan 12
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Swift String split vs components.
How to split a String into an Array in Swift?
Dec 19, 2025
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Recent posts
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Modern Keyboards Still Run On QWERTY
From mechanical typebars to touchscreens — the layout survived every technological revolution
Feb 24
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Unicode Normalization Explains Why Backspace Sometimes Takes More Than One Tap
How NFC, NFD, and NFKC editing behavior
Feb 20
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Cocoa Design Patterns Guide
How Cocoa Adapts Design Patterns
Feb 6
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SwiftFiddle
SwiftFiddle is an online playground for creating, sharing, and embedding Swift fiddles
Feb 3
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