Last updated: March 25, 2026 Introduction Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information that we receive and collect when you use Boomle, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard i…
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My father, Fred Nachbaur, died of cancer in September of 2004. He was 53 years old. I had just moved to Canada not long before, and our relationship, which had always been complicated, never got the resolution that I think both of us probab…
Hi, I’m Alex. I’m a software developer, specializing in iOS ever since the beginning of the iOS SDK. One of my passions is in mentoring and sharing my knowledge; I find I learn more about a topic when I teach it to someone else. So this sit…
Someone on Twitter recently asked how to implement a TableView header that will stretch and resize as the content is scrolled, so I thought I’d spend a few minutes to provide a good example. Since I thought it’s a neat trick that’s often ov…
I’m happy to share that today is my 2-year anniversary at Okta! This would make more sense if I’d originally announced on this blog that I’d changed jobs and started working at Okta, so I’ll take a moment to recap what’s happened in the pas…
Someone on Twitter recently asked how to implement a TableView header that will stretch and resize as the content is scrolled, so I thought I’d spend a few minutes to provide a good example. Since I thought it’s a neat trick that’s often ov…
One of the “delightful” features of iOS is the almost imperceptible UI effects they add to give the illusion of depth. One of the most under-appreciated features is UIMotionEffect, which ties the device’s gyroscope to your views to make the…
UIAppearance is analogous to CSS for UIKit, while being compatible with both Interface Builder and traditional styling in code, without sacrificing performance. It’s a way of declaratively assigning UI style values to your views, without ne…
When working with iOS apps (or really anything within Apple’s ecosystem) I’ve sometimes found the need to deeply introspect the libraries and executables built in my project to answer questions like “Is bitcode enabled for all architectures…
Everyone has a love/hate relationship with bug reports. For the user, they’re a nuisance to file. For the engineer receiving a bug report, it means extra work and the sad realization that your product isn’t perfect. I’ve been frustrated wit…
I recently wrote about Cocoa / Cocoa Touch frameworks, and in writing about it I was sorely tempted to dive into Modules, since they are pretty important to modern frameworks. But it was such a huge topic, I decided to break it out into a s…