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Welcome to Like a Local, our series where writers share how to spend an ideal long weekend in their favorite towns. This time, Kim gives us an insider’s guide to Palm Beach, FL. What started as yearly visits to Palm

If you’ve felt like smoothies have gotten suspiciously expensive, you’re not wrong. We now live in a world where $17 blends with spirulina and collagen are a bit too normal—especially if you’re shopping somewhere like Erewhon. These LA luxury grocery

Introduction It’s very difficult to have GenAI not hallucinate when in comes to Swift Package Registry. No surprise there: the feature is definitely niche, has not been vastly adopted and there’s a lack of examples online. As Dave put it,

In the past, sellers were responsible for managing and fulfilling their own tax obligations. However, more and more jurisdictions are now requiring marketplaces such as Etsy to collect the tax from buyers and remit the tax to the relevant authorities.

One of our Guiding Principles at Etsy is that we “commit to our craft.” This means that we have a culture of learning, in which we’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve and learn, adopt industry best practices, and share

I have a couple of side projects going on, although it is always a challenge to find time of them. One of them, SignalPath, is what I created back in 2015. Currently, I have been spending some time to bump

AnyClass is a protocol all classes conform to and it comes with a feature I was not aware of. But first, how to I ended up with using AnyClass. While working on code using CoreData, I needed a way to

Loved to see this entry in Xcode 16’s release notes: Xcode 16 brings a new execution engine for Previews that supports a larger range of projects and configurations. Now with shared build products between Build and Run and Previews, switching

Swift’s foundation library provides a sorted(by:) function for sorting arrays. The areInIncreasingOrder closure needs to return true if the closure’s arguments are increasing, false otherwise. How to use the closure for sorting by multiple criteria? Let’s take a look at

DateFormatter is used for converting string representation of date and time to a Date type and visa-versa. Something to be aware of is that the conversion loses microseconds precision. This is extremely important if we use these Date values for