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The title should be "Useful Swift Things". I assumed it would be about useful tips and tricks about using iOS on an iPhone.

xenihn 5y ago
I'd like to know what sort of "tips and tricks" you expected to be hosted inside of a Github repository.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 5y ago
  People use GitHub to store all kinds of useful crowdsourced documents.
- sefrost 5y ago
  Holding down on the keyboard space bar allows you to move the cursor around.
  - swiley 5y ago
    >Mobile OSes have an intuitive and discoverable UI. That's why they don't have man/info pages.
    - read_if_gay_ 5y ago
      iOS has a Tips app which shows you stuff like this. Not quite a man page but the closest thing Apple is going to give users.
      - SllX 5y ago
        You can download manuals for most Apple products in the Apple Books store.
        read_if_gay_ 5y ago
        Good point, I actually forgot these existed. I guess they could be a bit more prominent.
        sidpatil 5y ago
        I never even knew they existed until now. So much for so-called discoverability...
        SllX 5y ago
        Don’t know how discoverable this would qualify it as, been a while since I setup an Apple product from new, but the Tips app does point people in the direction of it. Under the Essentials section of my phone, the HomePod section too if you’ve got one—I remember being pointed at it during setup—probably more if I went digging. Mac OS X’s Help pages ain’t too bad either when I last looked at them a year or so ago, and the Help menu is in every single application, not useful in all of them kind you, but at least the First party stuff it is. There’s not been zero effort, but it isn’t completely in your face. That said when I reviewed the help pages, pointed a new Mac user at them and told her to go nuts, she refused to look and forgot that menu was there after a while. How do you solve that? People are either curious or they aren’t, but everything a new user needs is pretty much in there if they’re inclined to learn.
  - mosselman 5y ago
    Wow, I didn't know this, thanks.
- swiley 5y ago
  Before Apple decided that PC/handheld programming was only something that should be accessible to the elite most people kept scripts and small utility programs on github.
- deleted 5y ago
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- corobo 5y ago
  Have you not come across any of the awesome-* repos? I personally thought it was one of them but for iOS e.g. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

xenihn 5y ago

I'd like to know what sort of "tips and tricks" you expected to be hosted inside of a Github repository.

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 5y ago
People use GitHub to store all kinds of useful crowdsourced documents.
sefrost 5y ago
Holding down on the keyboard space bar allows you to move the cursor around.
- swiley 5y ago
  >Mobile OSes have an intuitive and discoverable UI. That's why they don't have man/info pages.
  - read_if_gay_ 5y ago
    iOS has a Tips app which shows you stuff like this. Not quite a man page but the closest thing Apple is going to give users.
    - SllX 5y ago
      You can download manuals for most Apple products in the Apple Books store.
      - read_if_gay_ 5y ago
        Good point, I actually forgot these existed. I guess they could be a bit more prominent.
        sidpatil 5y ago
        I never even knew they existed until now. So much for so-called discoverability...
        SllX 5y ago
        Don’t know how discoverable this would qualify it as, been a while since I setup an Apple product from new, but the Tips app does point people in the direction of it. Under the Essentials section of my phone, the HomePod section too if you’ve got one—I remember being pointed at it during setup—probably more if I went digging. Mac OS X’s Help pages ain’t too bad either when I last looked at them a year or so ago, and the Help menu is in every single application, not useful in all of them kind you, but at least the First party stuff it is. There’s not been zero effort, but it isn’t completely in your face. That said when I reviewed the help pages, pointed a new Mac user at them and told her to go nuts, she refused to look and forgot that menu was there after a while. How do you solve that? People are either curious or they aren’t, but everything a new user needs is pretty much in there if they’re inclined to learn.
- mosselman 5y ago
  Wow, I didn't know this, thanks.
swiley 5y ago
Before Apple decided that PC/handheld programming was only something that should be accessible to the elite most people kept scripts and small utility programs on github.
deleted 5y ago
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corobo 5y ago
Have you not come across any of the awesome-* repos? I personally thought it was one of them but for iOS e.g. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted