We stepped on the brake, now let us accelerate again…

Welcome to my eighth weekly newsletter. It is Wednesday August 11, 2021.

These are the curated links from this week's regular episode.

• Async let explained: call async functions in parallel - SwiftLee
  Antoine has a nice article explaining how you can use async let in your code. You should read this to learn how to use this syntax that ties in very well with a lot of last week's articles.
• Running tasks in parallel with Swift Concurrency’s task groups – Donny Wals
  This article by Donny explains an alternative for Grand Central Dispatch groups. A must read if you are dealing with tasks that are related to each other.
• How to build better command line apps and tools using Swift? - The.Swift.Dev.
  Have you ever wished you could create a command line utility using some specific bits from you regular codebase to make your life easier? Look no further, read this article by Tibor. A great intro into getting started with CLI tools.
• Different ways to catch throwing errors from Swift do-catch | Sarunw
  Catching an error is easy in Swift. Knowing what to do with it can be hard sometimes. Especially when you can receive multiple error types each requiring different handling. Fortunately Swift has you covered. Read this to improve your catching of Swift Errors. I see untyped catch blocks quite often in code reviews.
• #selector And The Responder Chain | dasdom
  And then there is Dominik reminding us of the responder chain. It is an amazing little concept that's present in any iOS and Mac app. Especially Mac app of old have a tendancy to do a lot of things with the Responder Chain. Refresh your memory or learn about the Responder Chain.

I hope you had a chance to have some well deserved time off, or maybe you still have some plans for this summer. I am noticing that a lot of people already had their time of for this summer. The article count on my feeds are ramping up again.

I've made some good progress on my Lead Developer workshop. I don't know why, but every time I work on it it makes me smile. I think it is due to me really looking forward to it. Sign up here to grab your spot.

Remember those keyboards I mentioned last week. Well I couldn't help myself. I'm now switching back and forth between my L80 and Atreus. That last one really takes some getting used to though.

I wanted to do a shout out to Vikash. He read my Lead Developer book, he wrote me an email telling me how much he liked it. And he graciously shared some of his insights, questions and he also found a couple typos. Reading his message made my day.

I also wanted to mention a small snippet from my reply to him.

One thing to keep an eye out for is in what way your team/project/manager is considered successful by the business and try and work on ways to get closer to that. Your product/project exists because someone has decided it is worth spending money on it for very specific goals and reasons. Know those goals and reasons and things will become much easier.

It just goes to show. Questions are always good to ask. When you get a reply, you learn something. But me, responding to the question also helped me. I put one of my own insights into a concise written form. Without Vikash's question I probably wouldn't have worded this concept I just described so carefully.

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