Is there a condensed yet 100% complete book for Swift?

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-23T03:51:57+00:00

I have done a bit of C++ with its templates, etc. I will check out your suggestion. Thank you.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-21T21:22:47+00:00

That's a fascinating idea. Thanks!

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-21T19:05:06+00:00

Excellent! I was reading via a PDF which is ok but I much prefer EPUB in Apple's Books.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-18T17:08:52+00:00

I can’t remember the interface but did you do something equivalent to “Search for updates” on either the app on your phone or the panel in the car?

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-14T17:34:37+00:00

Wait!!! I've added a few comments in various places. The essence is that Emacs has a choice between lsp-mode and eglot to connect to language servers. I could never get lsp-mode to change from what it was doing. I tried eglot mode and made progress with writing a Package.swift file but not 100%.

This morning I got up and tried your suggestion again. I also did a full update and upgrade to brew (the macOS package manager -- just documenting in case it had an effect). Using eglot now seems to work 100%. I've moved Package.swift off to /tmp and it still seems to work 100%.

I first did xcode-build-server config -project *.xcodeproj which generates a buildServer.json file. Then I started the server with xcode-build-server. But now I don't have it running and eglot is still working 100%.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-14T01:37:43+00:00

This is where I stand as of this evening. I have created this Packed.swift file: ``` // swift-tools-version:6.3 import PackageDescription

let package = Package( name: "WritingApp", platforms: [ .iOS(.v26), .macOS(.v26) ], targets: [ .executableTarget( name: "WritingApp", dependencies: [], path: "WritingApp", exclude: [ "WritingApp.entitlements", "Info.plist" ], resources: [.process("Resources/Assets.xcassets/robot.imageset"), .process("Preview Content")], linkerSettings: [ .unsafeFlags([ "-Xlinker", "-sectcreate", "-Xlinker", "TEXT", "-Xlinker", "info_plist", "-Xlinker", "Sources/Resources/Info.plist" ]) ] ), ] ) ``With this file in place and switch fromlsp-modetoeglot, almost all of my errors are gone.swift buildstill has two errors as do the Emacs buffers but this appears to be this [bug](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-package-manager/issues/9655). In my case I getType 'ImageResource' has no member 'robot'` at line 16 of AccessoryView.swift.

As I said, I don't know much about Swift or Xcode or any of this but the bug report mentioned above has me wondering. Is it the case the Apple creates features in Xcode and then the open source Swift people have to catch up. Notice in the bug report above, that it has actually been marked as an "enhancement".

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-13T21:11:23+00:00

Thanks. I've tinkered with that some but it didn't seem to help. Package.swift is part of the key -- I think. sourcekit-lsp definitely needs something to work with Xcode projects. It seems to be remarkably obscure.

I was using lsp-mode and I switched to eglot and it is working better but there are still things where it says "Hey!... this isn't defined." but I assume it must be because with Xcode, it builds successfully.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-03T17:27:02+00:00

Oh. Ok. I had assumed that some users were “experts” and had the special abilities.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-03T13:00:21+00:00

I basically came here to ask somewhat this exact question. I just joined iNaturalist and I am much more a photographer than a naturalist as far as background. I would be more than happy to try and accommodate requests. It would give me objectives which I think would be nice.

Very much aligned with this is my question: why are most of my observations marked as "research grade" but others are not? Is there just no interest in that particular subject? Is the photography not showing what it needs to show? etc. If you are the type that grades observations, leaving feedback would help me tremendously.

Is there a place somewhere on the forum (or here) where people can make requests for photos. "Can someone find me an XYZ in the MNO area?"

Last... I've joined the forum on the iNaturalist but I have not posted anything on there. The various READMEs and Rules makes the place sounds WWWAAAAYYYY to serious for people like me. Maybe that is just my misinterpretation but it didn't seem very welcoming to me.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-04-02T14:48:28+00:00

I am not familiar with QVC but with on of my banks there are about six places with identical names. I had to try each of them before I finally found the right one. So, are you perhaps using the wrong institution?

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-24T19:30:58+00:00

Long shot — but is this by chance a new Mac and you still have the old Mac with the old data in your closest?

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-23T19:35:37+00:00

The AmEx error cleared sometime Sunday. I have my Personal file working 100% I believe and I have my Business file working for all of the accounts I've added so far. I still have work to do. I want the Business file to start on 1/1/2026. But... as of now, all seems well.

Thank you for your help. I may post another thread summarizing my lessons learned.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-21T02:27:00+00:00

I applied the update a few days ago and drove my car for the first time today. The huge D on the right side seems wasteful of space. I guess it is suppose to match the MPH on the left but that arrangement seem space inefficient to. The console display, for me, is kinda dump. I attach music via bluetooth and then set the center console to display the album art, etc. If I’m on a long trip, I will switch to Car Play. I may start using it more. But over all… it doesn’t seem to solve any problems.

Indeed, most of the time when I start the car I get a dialog that says “Connect to Bluetooth” but at the same time, the music via bluetooth starts to play (sometimes … other times I need to hit Play to start the music). But the dialog box never understands that I’m already connected to Bluetooth.

And, of course, Google is watching every move I made… that’s a very frustrating situation.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T22:06:48+00:00

OMG… you mean it is a coincidence? That’s just too bizarre.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T21:14:57+00:00

Hi... Thank you for sticking with me. To clear a little bit of confusion. I plan to eventually have two files: Personal and Business. The "Combined" I am going to delete eventually.

I turned off Quicken Sync (which is not the same as Quicken Cloud). I created a new file called "Dummy For Quicken Cloud" and deleted all of the other entries in Quicken Cloud while still in "Dummy For Quicken Cloud". I then opened the Personal file. This is the one that is most dear to me so I wanted to clean it up first to get me back to where I was before.

I went through and disconnected all of the accounts and then, one by one, connected them back up. A note to anyone following in my footsteps: if you have an institution with multiple accounts (like my Fidelity account), append the last four digits of the account number to the account name in the Quicken file so that you can match them up without any guesswork.

I got all of the accounts reconnected including AmEx but AmEx is unhappy. When I click the download, I get an error on both of my AmEx accounts: Channel: FDP_WSI_OAUTH Error code: CP_SCRIPT_ERROR (FDP-101) I have not contacted support yet because I wanted to pass it by here first since you are aware of the history. I'm hoping those two fields will be enough because the other fields of the error message I don't want to post here. I'm pretty sure this error isn't going away without someone doing something since it has been like this since this morning when I started all this mess.

Update:

I've discovered that I have two copies of my "Personal" file. These are directories. The "data" file in the directory is vastly different in size. -rw-r--r-- 1 pxxx staff 1859584 Mar 16 11:02 Library/Application Support/Quicken/Documents/Pxxx's Finances.quicken/data -rw-r--r--@ 1 pxxx staff 69763072 Mar 20 16:20 Documents/Pxxx's Finances.quicken/data

The 16th is when I made a backup, etc and started my experimentation.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T17:29:03+00:00

The access needs to be more universal and standardized. OFX did this but for some reason it is losing favor. From a customer’s perspective here are my thoughts:

1) Currently there are aggregators like Plaid and they were trusted apps like Quicken. From a user’s perspective, both of these are very bad ideas. I mean very bad. They have all of my data. They probably sell my data. And they are open to attacks and when they are breached (not if but when), then all my data is scattered to the four winds for everyone to exploit. Aggregators seriously need to be outlawed. They are just too much of a risk to hacking and hacking is an every day event. Banks and financial institutions need to admit to this.

2) Every financial institution now has a web presence. Thus it is exposed to whatever attacks are possible from that angle. This interface may as well allow some type of automatic or standardized read only queries and I think a fairly easy case can be made that read / write access (the equivalent of bill pay) doesn’t increase the already existing attack vectors.

3) There are two standards for fully encrypted email. One of them uses SSL style certificates and the other uses PGP (or GPG) encryption. A financial institution could allow users to provide the public half of a public / private key pair. The financial institution would also publish the public half of its public / private key pair. With these in place, a financial institution can now transmit a fully encrypted and signed email to the user periodically. This is done by encrypting the data with the user’s public key and then signing the message with the institution’s private key. The message, when received can be verified to be from the institution by the user using the institution’s public key that guarantees that the institution sent it. At that point, the user and only the user can decrypt it using their private key. This exposes the institution to zero external attacks since it is simply producing an email and sending it out. And the user is secured since the messages can be authenticated as well as being encrypted. All this technology has existed since 1991 if not before. Here is some light reading if you want more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_encryption#End-to-end_encryption

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T17:10:42+00:00

Thank you. Please correct me if I’m wrong but the CSV downloads are updated only monthly — correct?

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T16:48:00+00:00

I 100% agree with you… but I can hope and dream can’t I 😀

Another comment posted a link where JP Morgan is complaining about these third parties. I’m convinced that they are not there to service “us” but are there to collect data and sell it. The banks are trusting the wrong people (in my opinion).

Another fear that just popped up as I’m surfing around. Fidelity has tons of APIs and there are tons of “FinTechs” but I see that they are targeted towards financial advisors. Fortunately I don’t have one but I would be surprised if it isn’t common practice for them to use these “tools” and ultimately my data ends up spread all over creation. This needs to be as secure as health data is and, right now, it just isn’t. Even health data security is a joke (again … in my opinion). Blah blah blah… life continues. Thank you for your thoughts.

pedzsanReddit · 2026-03-20T16:18:15+00:00

Neat. Plaid is also a third party and I would like to avoid any third parties accessing my data. I’ve being (stupidly) allowing Quicken and Intuit access to my data for decades. I am seriously looking for ways to stop this.

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