This very brief and somewhat vague article makes the case that DI in Swift can be simple and doesn’t need a third-party dependency.
👉 iOS: Dependency injection in Swift
Or try Swinject? This article also pointed me to a good quote.
Dependency Injection seems so confusing and counterintuitive at first, so I love this quote which pretty well summarizes and demystifies it.
Dependency injection means giving an object its instance variables. Really. That’s it.
Dependency Injection Demystified
Interesting history of mass transit in America. For those of us frustrated by being forced to drive a car everywhere (aka being stuck in traffic without an alternative way to get around) 🙄, this article provides some explanation, or at least context.
👉 Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit?
American suburbs are unique in being almost entirely auto-oriented, relating on those dumb park-and-rides for mass transit. Other countries that have extended mass transit into the suburbs themselves have had much more success. As the article says, “good service can make transit successful even in low-density suburbs.”
The right people are timeless.
The right people make you want to throw away the plans you originally had for one and follow them into the hazy, unknown future without a glance backwards.
There Is No “Right Person, Wrong Time”
Okay, let’s keep the European spa / bath / swimming pool tour going. This time up: Budapest!
I like the perspective in this article. Silicon Valley and the larger tech sector weren’t just created by a few extraordinary people, but were made possible by the overall environment.
👉 The Hidden History of How the Government Kick-Started Silicon Valley
These breakthroughs are made possible by a larger cast of thousands around them, by broader social structures, and by other things that America, writ large, makes possible — whether it be public policies or public education.
This article gives a clue as to why the tech revolution started in America. I mean it wasn’t just an accident that one giant company after another started in Silicon Valley. The US government helped. There’s wasn’t a government “plan” to create Silicon Valley, but the government did set up the environment that allowed it to happen.
Thanks, space race!
No one was sitting behind a desk in Washington saying, “Oh, this is how we’re going to build a tech industry.” But that is what happened.
I hope we continue to collectively invest like this going forward.
