Archive - Swift with Blaze

Modern Keyboards Still Run On QWERTY

From mechanical typebars to touchscreens — the layout survived every technological revolution

Feb 24 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Crash Course: Unicode Strings for iOS Developers

A fast, practical crash course on Unicode and Swift’s String: normalization, equality, hashing, etc.

Feb 22 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Unicode Normalization Explains Why Backspace Sometimes Takes More Than One Tap

How NFC, NFD, and NFKC editing behavior

Feb 20 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Cocoa Design Patterns Guide

How Cocoa Adapts Design Patterns

Feb 6 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

SwiftFiddle is an online playground for creating, sharing, and embedding Swift fiddles

Feb 3 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

How Swift String Equality Affects Dictionaries and Sets

Comparing strings for equality is always performed using Unicode canonical representation.

Feb 2 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

January 2026

Canonical Equivalence and Set<String> in Swift

How Unicode normalization affects Set's hashing and equality

Jan 30 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Syntax (Syntactic) vs. String Semantics

The Most Used Word Nobody Clearly Defines: Semantics

Jan 27 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Where Apple Expects You to Store Your Xcode Projects

The ~/Developer Folder: Apple’s Preferred Home for Xcode Projects

Jan 21 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Replacing text in a string using replacingOccurrences(of:)

Swift’s replacingOccurrences can break flag emojis. Learn why NSString replaces across grapheme clusters, and how to fix it.

Jan 15 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

Can Swift run without the standard library?

Built-ins, compiler internals, and the limits of “bare Swift”

Jan 12 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

December 2025

Swift String split vs components.

How to split a String into an Array in Swift?

Dec 19, 2025 • 🅱🅻🅰🆉🅴

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