A Swift package for spell checking using Yandex.Speller
For my own purposes, I wanted to add a spell checker to one of my apps. It should check the text and automatically correct it. Built-in macOS writing tools work fine for English, but don’t work for Russian.
So after it's done, why not share it?
https://github.com/makoni/YaSpellChecker
comment commentsSwiftUI text editor for macOS with HTML syntax highlighting
A few months ago, I wanted to add a text editor to one of my apps with HTML syntax highlighting. I tried a couple of libs that I found on GitHub, but none of them really worked for me. Mostly, they are too heavy and try to do everything. And in the end, they are glitchy and buggy.
So inspired by vibe coding, I made my own. It works fine for me and doesn't try to be an IDE or a real code editor. Just a simple SwiftUI view with a text editor with syntax highlighting. Colors are customizable with a simple struct.
Try it on GitHub: https://github.com/makoni/HTMLEditor-SwiftUI
comment commentsRecent updates of my projects
Recently, I've been playing a lot with AI agents, and it really inspired me to update my projects. Playing with real-life tasks makes it more fun.
Couchdb Swift client lib
There are 2 new releases of couchdb-swift library. Copilot kindly added more unit tests to the library to cover more use cases. Mostly failures. I still had to tweak a lot manually, but it gave me some ideas. So I've added more error handling in these 2 recent releases. Also, it found a couple of minor bugs and fixed them, reviewed my PR, and suggested some improvements. Far from being perfect yet, but still pretty impressive.
Release Informer Bot for Telegram
At some moment, I found that Copilot Agent is available for my account, and I can simply start with an issue on GitHub, assign it to the agent, and see what it will do. I've started with a request to update the README for Release Informer Bot with some nice details about how it works and how to set it up.
After the agent finished the updated README, it gave me another idea. Setting up might be automated. So I've opened Visual Studio Code and asked the Copilot agent to add automatic creation of the required database and set it up with the required CouchDB indexes.
It also did a good job, but it still required some manual tweaks and changes. And during that, it led to one more release of the CouchDB client lib because I wanted to rely on a proper "not found" error.
It's hard to tell how much time Copilot saved me. But definitely a lot. Including my favorite automatic string translations. Hopefully, that will inspire me to ship more.
comment commentsAppMetric 1.13.0
Вышло обновление AppMetric версии 1.13.0. Теперь на Swift 6, слегка подправил UI и убрал открытие поповера при запуске (кроме первого запуска) — пришёл к выводу, что это скорее раздражает, особенно если приложение запускается автоматически после перезагрузки. Ну и добавил локализацию на несколько новых языков.
CouchDB client for Swift version 2
Recently, I’ve released a few new versions of the CouchDB client for Swift. The latest version is version 2, and it includes several key changes:
- Updated the minimum required Swift tools version to 6.0.
- Adopted Swift Concurrency. CouchDBClient has been updated to be an actor.
- Renamed the library from couchdb-vapor to couchdb-swift to better reflect its purpose as a general CouchDB client for Swift, beyond Vapor-specific use cases.
- Made some changes to the initializer. Instead of passing a lot of parameters, it now accepts a Config structure.
- You can pass your own HTTPClient instance to be used in the client.
- Added translations for error messages.
- Introduced a dedicated tutorial for integrating CouchDBClient with the Hummingbird server-side framework.
- Added a shutdown() method to properly release resources associated with the HTTPClient.
CouchDB Client on GitHub | Documentation with examples and tutorials.
comment commentsAdding translations to an app or a package with AI help
In the previous article, I've explained how to add a Strings Catalog to a Swift package to support localizations. Now, we'll try to translate it into more languages.
comment commentsLocalizing a Swift Package with a String Catalog
Recently, I've been working on a Swift Package with some strings that I wanted to localize. Apple's documentation on this topic seems to be a bit outdated. The documentation still suggests using language-specific directories for localizing resources and strings.
But, at WWDC 2023, Apple introduced String Catalogs. It's much more handy - just a JSON file that Xcode can fill with all the strings that need to be localized. Most of the examples you can find are about apps, not packages. So, I've spent some time trying to figure out how to use String Catalogs in a Swift package.
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