Hello everyone! Let’s take a look what I learned in 20 January 2021, shall we?

#1 - Weak self and unowned self explained in Swift

Source: https://www.avanderlee.com/swift/weak-self/

“Reference counting applies only to instances of classes. Structures and enumerations are value types, not reference types, and are not stored and passed by reference.”

“weak references are always declared as optional variables as they can automatically be set to nil by ARC when its reference is deallocated.”

“For many of us, it’s best practice to always use weak combined with self inside closures to avoid retain cycles. However, this is only needed if self also retains the closure. By adding weak by default you probably end up working with optionals in a lot of cases while it’s actually not needed.”

“Property observers aren’t called when ARC sets a weak reference to nil.”

#2 - print() tricks

Source: @tiborbodecs

# Default seperator between words is space " "

print("kebap", "case", separator: "-")
// kebap-case

print("kebap", "case", separator: "-", terminator: "->")
// kebap-case->

Other Findings

Today about SSL Pinning, I found two great sources, will take more time to go through them:

1. Securing iOS Applications with SSL Pinning by Batuhan Saka
2. Identity Pinning by Apple

Closing Notes

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Until next one,
Furkan