Your assistant can send emails, search the internet, and more! — Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been revolutionizing various industries, and one of its most captivating deployments is in the field of conversational AI — with chat agents such as ChatGPT doing extraordinary things. Today, we’re going to dive into an impressive tool offered by Devgauge — LangChainAgentFactory · PyPI. This exceptional…

Human Language as a Programming Language — Today we’re going to take a break from programming (sort-of) and discuss a unique take on improving ChatGPT’s problem solving abilities. I’ve recently been leveraging AI to create children’s coloring books. I have zero artistic creativity, but so far I’ve been able to publish several and with each iteration I…

Using UIViewRepresentable To Display Your Ads — Disclaimer: I don’t advocate for any particular ad network, aggregation service, or “app technology platform” and you aren’t meant to take this as a how-to for monetizing your app. This is more about how to integrate AppLovin into your SwiftUI app if you’ve taken the path I did and have…

Using a Slack App, Webhooks, and a Simple Curl Request — Do you use Slack and have tasks you wish you could automate communication for? Slack Apps and bots make that pretty easy, but a lot of people struggle with sending messages to multiple channels and often end up creating multiple bots or implementing an unnecessarily complex solution. Using the strategy…

Update the frontend as the backend changes in real-time — Are you working with Firebase Realtime Database and wish your UI would just update when the backend does? This can be really helpful when changes can come from anywhere — i.e. in a multi-user app where one user performing an action may change another user’s data. …

Good discipline should be more of a concern than using a value type over a reference type — If you’ve been doing Swift Development for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve heard that it’s good practice to use a struct over a class by default. While this is true in many cases, and for good reason, it’s very easy for a struct to be just as unsafe…

You don’t pack the whole house when you go on vacation, you bring a suitcase — Imagine you’re going on vacation. You know exactly where you’re going, how long you’re staying, and the weather pattern is very reliable. You’re super prepared for what’s to come, and you know exactly what you’ll need when you get there. It wouldn’t make sense to pack everything you own and…

Write a fully functional ViewController in about 30 lines of code — So you’re sick of massive view controllers? Me too. Many architectures attempt to overcome this problem in a way that I view as extremely complex for the problem they’re trying to solve. I favor simple architectures and simple solutions because they’re easy to understand, develop, and maintain. For this reason…

From heavy to lightweight — Say you’re making a singleton or static class to represent data and/or logic that will never change. In many cases, you can convert this logic to an enum and save yourself a bunch of hassle. An enum has much of the functionality of a class, but doesn’t require an instance…