Misc rambles:

Interesting: You no longer “print” in iOS Swift Playgrounds. Anything that can be presented using a playground QuickLook or a custom string representation is done so with the tap-to-view item at the right. There’s no “printing” per se, no console, while I suppose you can import Foundation and NSLog stuff, I’m not sure how reasonable a solution that is, especially on the go.

Because: This morning I ended up importing AVFoundation to let AVSpeechSynthesizer “speak” feedback to me. Not ideal, but short and easy to implement, and got the job done for some stuff that wasn’t rendering nicely the way I needed it to, in a complicated playground book that was using SceneKit not UIKit.

Rad discovery of the day: Command-R runs the playground without having to tap the screen. \o/ Press and hold Command key (on a physical Bluetooth keyboard, this doesn’t work on, for example, type2phone) to discover other shortcuts:

Sad discovery of the day: You cannot air drop playground books anymore, and Swift Playgrounds is being very very careful about allowing you access to any material you didn’t create or import yourself. There’s no Documents support for iTunes. At the suggestion of Jonathan Penn, I gave it a try after rebooting and now it works. You wouldn’t believe how much time I wasted trying to extract information to look up implementation details.

Thanks again to Jonathan P for pointing me to the command-key discovery feature!