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Apple tried to offer a head start on writing SwiftUI apps by providing us with some very nice looking tutorials. The documentation however is still severely lacking and the framework still seems in full development, noticeable by broken/missing functionality and some pretty big changes in the past betas. To fill some of the gaps in SwiftUI I wrote my own library for displaying sheets which gave me a deeper understanding of SwiftUI. In this article I will share some of my findings.

When we founded Egeniq, almost 9 years ago, we had no experience developing iOS (or Mac) apps. So next to finding clients for our agency, we invested a lot of time in gaining some crucial experience.

We decided to build an app for AXIS security cameras. At the time there was no official AXIS app available in the app store and the few 3rd party apps that existed were of very low quality and didn’t offer a lot of functionality. AXIS cameras have a very nice and complete HTTP API which makes it an excellent target for a full featured 3rd party client.

Initially conversational commerce revolved mainly around chatbots, but with the proliferation of smart speakers the 'conversation' part in conversational commerce is becoming more natural, so these days conversational commerce is (according to its Wikipedia definition): "commerce-commerce via various means of conversation", with live chat, messaging, chatbots and virtual assistants as primary examples.

We were asked by RTL Nederland to make a companion game for their new game show on TV, BankGiro Miljonairs (the dutch version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). This article will sum up the positive and negative aspects of using Unity while I have worked on this application.

Recently I ran into some issues with JavaScript testing in one of our projects. Since I had a hard time figuring out the solution and the internet didn’t help me enough, I thought I’d share my solution in a blogpost.

The past couple of months we at Egeniq had been working on the brand new Android TV app for Pathé Thuis, a video-on-demand service in the Netherlands, and now that it is finally available on Google…

Last week I was building a console command on top of Laravel that could be running for a long time. It was a long-running process that runs a queue worker. It reads from a queue, does some processing…

What is Serverless? It’s a toolkit that helps you deploy and operate serverless architectures to various cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. There are quite a few ways to…

Here’s a useful command that I’ve been using for a while. It generates a changelog, based on all merge commits since the latest release was tagged. This will give you the latest tag name, eg: 1.24.3…