Dillon Codes

Dillon McElhinney

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.

Completion Handlers in Swift

Oct 22, 202213 min read

Completion handlers are everywhere in Swift. They are commonly used in Apple's frameworks and many third-party libraries. They are often put forward...

Completion Handlers in Swift

My Journey Into App Development

Sep 3, 202211 min read

The Kindling My journey to start developing software as my livelihood took a while. Looking back, I realize that I was always sort of around...

My Journey Into App Development

Xcode Tip: Pre-Build Actions

Aug 29, 20223 min read

I ran into this cool little piece of functionality in Xcode the other day that helped me solve a real problem. I have never seen anyone mention that...

Xcode Tip: Pre-Build Actions

Stop Throwing Away Errors

Aug 27, 202213 min read

We all know how it goes when we are trying to get something working. We want to get there as fast as we can and we get focused on the "happy path"....

Stop Throwing Away Errors

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...

5 Reasons To Use Typealias

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