This article is based on an idea presented by David Smith in an Under the Radar podcast. The idea is to support the UI features of a new platform (e.g., iOS 26) without a) loosing users who still use older devices that won’t support iOS 26, and b) without polluting any newer code with numerous…
Context My iOS app Photo Club Hub) and macOS app (Photo Club Hub HTML) are, as the names suggest, closely related. They also share lots of Swift code. The two apps are managed in two separate GitHub repositories rather than two targets in the same repository. Having separate repositories spares contributors unnecessary complexity when working…
Swift 6 aims to detect many concurrency issues at compile time. Fixing these new warnings and errors at compile time should prevent so-called “data-races” from showing up as intermittent run-time errors. This goal is important and even urgent because software developers are increasingly relying on concurrency to utilise multi-core processors and to perform slow tasks…
FTP SFTP FTPS Security technology None / old SSH TLS URL my.domain.com sftp://my.domain.com my.domain.com(configure client to use FTPS) Ports that must be opened 21 22 21, plus passive port range Passwords, passkey, public/private keys plaintext passwords (!) public keys public keys User privileges flexible full access privileges flexible FileZilla client support YES YES YES Lightroom…
Standard text localization When you create apps for the Apple ecosystem, you may need to support multiple languages. This is a key part of what is known as localization. It comes down to creating an English version of text strings – say the label of a “Submit” button -, and providing translations of “Submit” to…
Release 2.5.0 of the Photo Club Hub iOS app is now available on Github and Apple’s App Store. The main changes are: What’s next? As you can see on GitHub, a next update will improve the Maps on the Photo Clubs page. This is because Apple’s MapKit framework for SwiftUI has changed in iOS17, and some old…
The iOS app formerly-known-as Photo Club Waalre (and Photogroep Waalre) has been renamed to Photo Club Hub. This applies to the code repository on Github, and to version 2.4.0 and above on Apple’s App Store. The name change emphasizes that the app is no longer tied to any single photo club. Since version 2.0 the…
This posting lists and discusses various online tutorials about how to set up WordPress using Docker and NGINX on a self-managed Linux server. This is sometimes known as LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP. Or LEMP: Linux, (E)nginx, MySQL, PHP. All this is trivial if the hosting provider handles the details. And is still relatively doable…
This is the technology stack used on this VPS-hosted site: More loosely-related stuff on the VPS-hosted site: This is the technology stack used on the Synology DS411 test site: