Jacob’s Tech Tavern

Jacob's Tech Tavern is a Substack by the Lead Mobile Engineer at Gener8, offering insights into iOS software engineering, startup dynamics, career guidance, and mobile app development. It combines practical advice on app creation, career development, and technical deep dives into software and hardware architecture, with personal anecdotes and humor.

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Combine, async/await, and Unit Testing

0 implied HN points • 22 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Concurrency Testing Swift Unit Testing
  1. Combine and async/await can be used together to write robust and maintainable software with modern language features.
  2. Testing @ObservableObject view models, Combine publishers in async methods, and Combine publishers converted to AsyncSequence are key in achieving unit test mastery.
  3. Understanding the interoperation between Combine and async/await is a powerful skill for writing unit tests and marrying the two concurrency approaches.

Jacob's Substack

0 implied HN points • 20 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Software Engineering iOS Humor
  1. Jacob is an experienced iOS Engineer with a passion for technology.
  2. He started his own technical blog to share knowledge and improve his writing skills.
  3. Expect well-structured engineering topics, hot iOS takes, and humor on his blog.