// do something here

So you are humming along on a Swift project, and making excellent progress. However, somewhere in the back of your mind, you know that you should be doing things better, mainly due to your lack of experience in writing Swift code. In this case, you should be installing SwiftLint to help you with your code base.

The installation seems harmless enough:

brew install swiftlint

Once that finishes, however, you try to run a swiftlint command in the Terminal and are faced with this:

Fatal error: Loading sourcekitd.framework/Versions/A/sourcekitd failed: file SourceKittenFramework/library_wrapper.swift, line 39
Illegal instruction: 4

Fear not brave adventurer, you just have to get your Xcode select path correctly configured. With Xcode installed in the standard place, this command in the Terminal should get you all fixed up:

xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/

BTW, Happy Inventors’ Day to all my readers in Argentina.

I can’t believe that I forgot to post about the 2020 Advent of Code until just now! Man I suck, but in truth, I have been a bit busy with my new gig.

There didn’t seem to be a puzzle this year that they kept building on like in years past. I actually kind of liked those kinds of challenges, but I will say that the 2020 set of challenges were fun to work on.

Please check out my Advent of Code Github repository:

https://github.com/Wave39/AdventOfCode

Well this year’s Advent of Code 2017 must have been easier than the past two years. Either that, or I am getting better at this software development thing, as I am actually finished with it on the final day of the challenge. Huzzah!

Please feel free to check out my Github site for all the Swift 4 goodness needed to solve the 25 challenges:

https://github.com/Wave39/AdventOfCode2017

BTW, Merry Christmas (or insert your own holiday here) to all, and here’s hoping your 2018 is the best it can be.

I have been going through the 2015 version of the Advent of Code, which is a web site that has a bunch of interesting programming puzzles. In an attempt to try to learn something new, I decided I would solve the puzzles using Swift. I am about half way through so far, and the results have been eye opening.

Here is the link to the Advent of Code web site:

http://adventofcode.com

And here is a link to my Github repository with the solutions:

https://github.com/Wave39/AdventOfCode

BTW, Happy Birthday to Mike Keneally, the excellent guitarist and musician who has worked with so many great artists, including Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.

Well the WWDC keynote has come and gone. And what do you know, a developer conference keynote geared towards developers. I guess all those bloggers and press types that took up some of the WWDC tickets from us actual developers are pretty disappointed today, as there were no shiny new devices shown.

The big announcement in my opinion was Swift, which will be the successor to Objective-C for developing on the Mac and iOS platforms. It looks somewhat interesting, as yet again they have lowered the bar and made it much easier to develop software for their platforms. But this is a disadvantage as well as a strength, as folks will continue to churn out the clones and inferior products that clutter up the App Store.

I applaud Apple for creating Swift and not recycling an existing language such as Ruby, Python, or Javascript, as these languages all come with their own baggage. Hopefully I will not be throwing away the 6 years of experience that I have built up with Objective-C and they will allow it to be used for the foreseeable future.

Ah, I miss the days when retain/release separated the men from the boys in the iOS world…

There was some good news in the presentations from yesterday. In the Platforms State of the Union presentation, they indicated that the 100 device barrier for beta testing and internal testing will essentially be rendered moot through Apple’s integration of TestFlight. This feature can’t come soon enough for me, so please hurry up Apple.

BTW, so many birthdays today, not sure where to begin… Kerry King of Slayer (happy 50th), Ian Hunter most famously of Mott the Hoople, Chuck Barris of the Gong Show… But the name that jumps out for me is Tristan Rogers, currently portraying Colin on The Young And The Restless. Happy Birthday, mate!