#Swift

GearCalc for Mac & iPad – Now Available on TestFlight

I'm excited to announce that GearCalc - a bicycle gear calculator for Mac and iPad - is now available for beta testing via Apple TestFlight. What is GearCalc? GearCalc takes the guesswork out of bicyc…

Small Steps For Agent-Friendly Codebases

Updating an open source library taught me a valuable lesson for making your codebase agent-friendly — small steps can have a big payoff.

Three Thoughts On Crypto and NFTs

Empower Apps Podcast: Building Plinky as an Indie Developer

Leo Dion and I discuss building Plinky from scratch, the technical decisions behind using SwiftUI and Vapor, creating delightful user experiences, and the journey from working at Twitter to becoming a…

Monarch: Minimal, Manageable, Migrations 🦋

Introducing Monarch, a simple yet flexible migrations library for Swift that helps manage user data changes across app updates with minimal hassle.

Introducing Recap: What's Old Is What's New Again

Open sourcing Recap, a Swift library for creating beautiful What's New screens to highlight app updates and keep users informed about new features.

Indie App Spotlight - Plinky Feature

Plinky was featured in Indie App Spotlight Issue 20, where we discussed the app's origin story, design philosophy, technical implementation, and the journey of building a successful indie app.

Compile Swift Podcast: Being Featured on the App Store

Peter Witham and I discuss the incredible experience of having Plinky featured on the App Store, the journey of indie app development, and how doing good work creates opportunities.

Add Support for Drag and Drop to SwiftUI-based macOS App

There are 2 types of drag and drop I'm interested in for SimplyDiskSweeper: Drag and drop folders onto the app icon in the Dock Drag and drop folders

Twitter Space: Making Data Storage Magical with Boutique

I joined the Github DevRel team to discuss building Boutique, my "magical" library for data persistence. We also dive into my journey from Twitter to indie development, and the harsher realities of op…

Reflections On An Open Source Project

Personal reflections on building Boutique and Bodega open source projects, covering the ups and downs of creating something valuable for the Swift community.

Model View Controller Store: Reinventing MVC for SwiftUI with Boutique

Introducing Boutique, a new architecture that reimagines MVC for SwiftUI by adding a Store layer to handle state management and data flow in a familiar, approachable way.

Creating Slick Color Palette APIs

Building maintainable, flexible color palette systems for iOS and macOS apps using asset catalogs, semantic naming, and SwiftUI integration.

Notes on listening to location changes in WKWebView

WKNavigationDelegate is useful for tracking when user navigates to a different URL with functions such as webView :,decidePolicyFor:,decisionHandler:

Putting the U in GraphQL

Learning how to make GraphQL requests from scratch without libraries like Apollo, exploring the fundamentals of GraphQL client-side implementation in Swift.

Empower Apps Podcast: Large Scale Teams

Leo Dion and I discuss scaling app development to thousands of people and millions of users at Twitter, communication, documentation, and the complexity of holding moral frameworks at a global level.

Context-Bound Types

Exploring API design patterns for balancing implementation exposure, using the example of creating view controllers with header views in four different approaches.

Overload NSLayoutConstraint.activate to Accept Arrays as Elements

Using anchors with Auto Layout is a big improvement over creating constraints using the class function in NSLayoutConstraint or Visual Format

Building Better Views (Part I)

Introducing ViewData, a declarative architecture pattern for transforming models into views that offers a maintainable alternative to MVVM for iOS development.

Building Better Views (Part II), Next Steps

Continuing the ViewData architecture discussion, covering complex views, performance considerations, and practical implementation strategies.