Mark Brownsword

December 6, 2022

EndeavourOS: Getting Started

I’ve been an enthusiastic user of Linux since reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar, an essay that attempts to describe “exactly what it is that makes the Linux community such a fountain of good software”. EndeavourOS is a terminal-centric, rolling distribution that gives access to the latest software in the Arch Linux official repositories using […]

May 20, 2022

iOS: Update UINavigationBar Title on Scroll

Apple introduced large navigation bar titles in iOS 11 with the prefersLargeTitles property. When this property is set true then the screens navigation title will be displayed prominently and on scrolling will reduce to a compact display. The “prefers” in the property name means on smaller devices the large title will be pre-scrolled and not […]

April 15, 2022

Linux Commands: Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive with the dd command

If you find yourself in this position of wanting to create a bootable flash drive on Linux, but your distribution doesn’t have an application installed, there is a command line tool for that called dd. You need to download an iso file from the distributions website. I’m using Pop!_OS in this example. The first step […]

December 23, 2020

Natural Language Framework: Sentence Embedding with Swift

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been on a tear since 2018 (though is still regarded as an unsolved problem), with deep learning techniques producing breakthroughs e.g. OpenAI’s GPT3 can “produce human-like text” but requires extensive computing resources and a massive amount of data to build the language model. Transfer Learning is the technique that allows […]

May 29, 2020

Swift on Linux: Package Manager Resources

A new feature for Swift 5.3 is Package Manager Resources which allows files such as .md, .png, .jpg, .txt and .pdf to be explicitly designated as resources and included as part of the built product for a SPM module. The following is a demonstration of Package Manager Resources with a SPM CLI application called Dapper, […]