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Ah, the joys of being a developer. You get to keep your development tools up to date. You get to make sure your IDE and source code version control, and testing environments all talk to one another and play nicely. You need to keep all your tools up to date with whatever level of support you need to provide. And you need to keep up to date with the evolving language specs while learning the interesting little bits that can make  difference when you’re trying to write clean, readable, maintainable code.

Today I got bored waiting for some other things, so I read up a continuous integration tool. Tried to set it up. Failed. Failed miserably and in such a way as to feel as though I had made negative progress. So set that distraction aside and read up on some nuances of how Swift import statements work. Dang, I learned something useful; you can import just parts of a module if that’s all you need. If you’re curious, you can read up on it yourself: https://nshipster.com/import/.

NSHipster.com and UseYourLoaf.com are two of my current favorite sources for writing about (mostly) Swift development. If you know of any others, or if you know of an equally good source focussing on Xamarin development, drop me a line.