Dillon McElhinney
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Dillon McElhinney

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I'm Dillon and I like to code. I code for work, I code for fun, I read about code and I think about code. I share some of that code here and I do my best to share the lessons I learn along the way.

5 Reasons To Use Typealias

May 25, 20228 min read

Swift has many features that allow us as the users of the language to customize how we write code, while still giving us all the protections of a...

Writing Short Code Isn't The Point

Mar 14, 20228 min read

I don't know about you, but I have spent a lot of time trying to write code in the shortest, most elegant way possible. I have put a lot of thought...

Writing Short Code Isn't The Point

Fixing An Unfixable Bug

Mar 7, 20227 min read

My experience tackling a bug that was way out of my league. · If you have been an iOS developer for any length of time, you have certainly come across...

Fixing An Unfixable Bug

On Imposter Syndrome

Aug 21, 20217 min read

And Spinning Up At A New Job · A friend of mine was recently hired as a "senior" engineer. He's a sharp guy. He went through a bootcamp. He had worked at...

On Imposter Syndrome

A Look At iOS Native Half Sheets

Jun 19, 20216 min read

One of the things that stood out to me from WWDC this year was the ability to have native half sheets. This has been a request from the designers at...

A Look At iOS Native Half Sheets

Building Airbnb's UI From Scratch - Part 6

Jun 6, 202113 min read

The Header · In this series of posts I am going to be building out the UI for Airbnb's "Explore" tab from scratch. This is an exercise in figuring out...

Building Airbnb's UI From Scratch - Part 6