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David Shanks
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1. SwiftUI
2. VisionOS
3. Profit?!
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Good memories! The artwork might have been less obscured on your copies though...
The white witch is certainly there, looking pensive and cross. That's likely Edmund by her side, though all but his hair is concealed by a white band across the bottom of the book with a barcode and price.
October 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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So this one really was hacking... Since Day 70 didn't really work (long presses on Annotations weren't being picked up), I had to fudge a solution in order to progress with Day 71.
I gave each Annotation a distinctive colour, then created a sheet which would enable me to edit their details.
August 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Also, can't get enough of this comparison view. This functional aesthetic is right up my street.
Screenshot of Xcode comparing two versions of the same file. Revised sections are highlighted with a different colour in each version, and elegant gradients and bridges with radiused corners connect between the two.
July 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Finally completed Day 47 of #100DaysofSwiftUI - it took me quite a while to work through the challenge! I added a few more features than were asked for…
July 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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🙊 I just finished Day 35 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/35 via @twostraws
May 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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👉🏻 I just finished Day 30 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI via @twostraws.bsky.social

Not much to look at, but a small victory in terms of motivation.
May 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ᯅ Happily progressing with #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/ via @twostraws.bsky.social

Day28, and still habitually building everything for #visionOS.
Better Rest app which takes inputs of preferred wake-up time, desired amount of sleep, and daily coffee intake, and outputs a suggested bedtime. Makes use of the Date type and machine learning behind the scenes. All presented in the visionOS simulator, in the setting of a kitchen at night time.
May 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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I found this recently! apps.apple.com/app/interact...
May 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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ᯅ I just finished Day 22 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/22 via
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Since my goal is to build for visionOS, I figured I could start targeting it in my coursework going forward… #SwiftUI
April 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Nice one, thank you!👌🏻
I'll sleep well tonight.
April 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Day 19 completed! #100DaysOfSwiftUI #SwiftUI
Today involved learning about @State variables and figuring out the logic and data structure for converting between more than two temperature scales.
April 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Well, this snappy one-liner would've meant very little to me a fortnight ago. Thanks to #100DaysOfSwiftUI it currently makes total sense!
That was Day 14. Looking forward to hitting SwiftUI itself before the end of the week…
A one-line function which accepts an optional array of integers, and returns a random member if there's actually an array of ints rather than nil. If it is nil, you just get a random number from one to one hundred. Code to follow: func rando(_ integers: [Int]?) -> Int { integers?.randomElement() ?? Int.random(in: 1...100)}
April 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I do prefer typing up code examples in #100DaysofSwiftUI with my own cultural references. Seems to stick better! #SwiftUI
Employee Struct with vacation function, customised to relate to Severance, with an employee named Helly R who says "So long, Milchick!" when she takes annual leave.
April 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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OK, sleep helped. Cracked it!

𑗗 I just finished Day 9 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/9 via @twostraws
Solution to Checkpoint 5 in 100 Days of SwiftUI - using closures to sort an array of Ints (extracting only multiples of two, putting them in order, and printing each on a new line as a 'lucky number'). Code is as follows: let luckyNumbers = [7, 4, 38, 21, 16, 15, 12, 33, 31, 49] luckyNumbers .filter { $0.isMultiple(of: 2) } .sorted().map { (number: Int) -> String in return String(number) + " is a lucky number"} .forEach { print($0) }
April 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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That's Day 6 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI complete. Still working through the foundations, but loving this course so far… www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/6 via @twostraws
FizzBuzz, an introductory coding exercise. Code as follows... for i in 1...100{ let fizz = i%3 == 0 let buzz = i%5 == 0 if fizz && buzz { print("FizzBuzz") } else if fizz { print("Fizz") } else if buzz { print("Buzz") } else { print(i) } }
April 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM