Michael Bates

The Command Line Toolbox

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I just gave my first-ever conference talk at Swift Cloud Workshop #4 and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! Folks were very encouraging and even said they found the talk inspiring, which is wonderful. Thank you again to the organizers and to everyone who attended.

Using Open Computer Vision

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been working on adapting an old board game onto iOS. Recreating the game board has given me an opportunity to play with OpenCV—a computer vision library for Python and other languages.

The Web of Alexandria

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

It might be that the notion of “the” web — in the sense of a single complex protocol supporting all human communicative purposes — isn’t a very good idea.

Instance Methods are Curried Functions in Swift

Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Update 2017-09-04
This behavior will be changed in a future version of Swift whenever proposal SE-0042 is implemented, but as of Swift 4.0 it’s still available. Check out the proposal for more details and the rationale behind this change.

Functional Complements to Swift, Part 1

Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In exploring ways to use functional programming concepts in Swift, I’ve made some additions to its basic language features. This is part of an ongoing series about functional components I’ve added to Swift.