Dominik Hofer

Most beautiful website of the week (discovered via @godlywebsite newsletter): Flecto

First hour in @framer building my new personal website.

Baby steps.

Day 11 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Access control
✅ Static props & methods
✅ Checkpoint 6

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Restrict property access with private keyword
👉 Static props/methods can be used for global data or examples

Slowly, Swift really starts to click for me 🙌
Checkpoint 👇

My favorite Xcode shortcut:

Control + I to properly indent your code.

What's yours? 👇

Remember: Nobody has figured it all out.

We're all starting out as imposters.

We live in a time full of opportunities: The permissionless area.

But how should you leverage them?

@jackbutcher has created what is probably the most comprehensive guide to answer this question.

Here are my 5 key takeaways & opinions on “The Permissionless Apprentice” 👇

One of the best things about summer:

🍉

My favorite @AliAbdaal quote:

“Everything is figureauteable.”

Perfectly sums up the mindset I try to cultivate.

Focus is the key to achieve more in less time.

Day 10 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Structs
✅ Computed properties
✅ Property observers

🔑 takeaways:
👉 With structs, you can create custom types
👉 Computed properties work like in Vue.js
👉 You can create custom initializers (must provide values for all properties)

With the launch of my personal website, I also want to start a bi-weekly newsletter. Nothing too fancy, just a way to send some updates.

What tool should I use?
⟡ @SubstackInc
⟡ @TwitterWrite (Revue)
⟡ @ConvertKit

Any tips/experiences?

Life is too great to always be anxious.

Day 9 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Closures
✅ Passing functions
✅ Checkpoint 5

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Closures are a special type of function
👉 Trailing closure syntax is handy when you pass a function to a function

Not sure if I solved today's challenge correctly, my brain hurts…

Discovered a handy feature in Xcode by accident:

When holding down CMD, you can click on a variable and refactor it.

See example below 👇

One simple trick I learned in therapy:

If you're unsure what your gut feeling is (because you tend to overthink things), simply flip a coin. 🪙

The answer you hope for shortly before the coin hits your hand is usually the right one.

A lifechanging mindset shift:

Go from consumer to creator.

One of my all-time favorite quotes:

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
—Chinese proverb

Day 8 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Default values
✅ Throwing functions
✅ Checkpoint 4

🔑 takeaways:
👉 = defaultvalue
👉 There is an error Swift type
👉 throws keyword before return type
👉 do try catch keywords

Trickier challenge today, but managed to solve it 🙌

You cannot be productive if you’re not organized.

A messy life = a messy brain.

Good morning to everyone working on their own projects today ☀️

(Btw, share them below, I'm curious!)

Finally working on my personal website.

Will share some snapshots on here, so stay tuned!

Designing to this sound atmosphere is just chefs kiss

One of my goals is to buy my next iPhone with money I made from creating iOS apps.

That would surely be an amazing feeling. Still a long way to go but you gotta have dreams 😇

Day 7 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Functions
✅ Params
✅ Return

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Params are named, type annotated and can have an alias
👉 Return value is annotated with -> Type
👉 Use Tuples to return multiple values (they have a fixed size)
👉 Tuples can be destructed

The best product ideas always come from scratching your own itch.

Nobody is better at solving your own problems than yourself.

You're not lacking time.

You're lacking focus.

The @webflow newsletter is one of my favorite resources to learn about new tools & beautiful sites.

Always looking forward to the next issue 🙌

Play around with a spirograph in your browser:

https://nathanfriend.io/inspiral-web/

4 habits to make you better each day:

🧘‍♂️ meditate
💪 exercise
✍️ journal
📖 read

Anything you would add?

Day 6 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Loops
✅ Checkpoint 3

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Ranges are a unique data type (... and ..<)
👉 Int.random(in: x) for random number
👉 continue & break to exit loops

The challenge was a classic code problem. Below is my solution for “FizzBuzz” 👇

Constraints spark creativity. https://xcancel.com/dominikhofer_/status/1529115013822050304/photo/1

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Every time you say “no”, you’re saying “yes” to something else.

What is your best tip to making money online?

Day 5 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ If/else
✅ Switch
✅ Ternary operator

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Switch blocks must be exhaustive
👉 For ternary operators, remember WTF: What ? True : False

Visualizing really is a powerful tool.

I just completed day 2 of @mattdavella's Unstuck Challenge and the “ideal day in your life” exercise got me thinking quite a bit.

After writing down the visualization, I'm more even more motivated to pursue my dreams! 🙌

The best products are not those that are simply good, but those that take what‘s already out there and make it better.

Who had the idea to add a pink mode @hypefury 😂

I'm only a few days into my #SwiftUI journey, but I already appreciate the type-safety features of the language.

Helps tremendously to reduce those embarrassing mistakes.

Day 4 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Type annotations
✅ Checkpoint 2

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Whenever possible, use type inference

Below is my solution for the checkpoint. Wasn't that hard but reinforced my knowledge of sets: Now I know that they are made from arrays 💡

Reframe your thinking: You're not bad at something. You're just new to it.

Embrace the beginner's mindset.

Before any good code, there comes a lot of bad code. There's no shortcut.

Day 3 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Arrays
✅ Dictionaries
✅ Sets
✅ Enums

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Use default to access data in dictionaries
👉 Sets are significantly faster in look-up operations than arrays
👉 With enums, you essentially define a new data type with all possible values

2022 is already halfway over. Here's a goal I want to reach by the end of it:

Making 1$ online with my own iOS app.

”Without activity, we are lifeless and dull. When moving fast and taking action, we come alive.”
— @JamesClear

How do you make sure that the ideas you have are actually saved somewhere?

Do you have a system for that?

Day 2 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Booleans
✅ String interpolation
✅ Checkpoint 1

🔑 takeaways:
👉 String interpolation is more efficient than string concatenation

The checkpoint exercise was a simple Celcius to Fahrenheit converter. Completed it without any problems 🙌

Day 1 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Variables
✅ Constants
✅ Strings
✅ Numbers

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Use constants whenever possible
👉 Type safety is a very helpful feature of Swift

Going for a bike ride first thing in the morning and enjoying this view is amazing 😍

Really helps clear your head and gives you a sense of accomplishment afterward.

Today, I started my iOS dev journey with #100DaysOfSwiftUI (day 0)

Watched a video that answered some basic questions around iOS development. @twostraws did a really great job with making me excited for what's to come 🙌
https://xcancel.com/dominikhofer_/status/1536422578289377286