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Issue #715
I remember this time last year in December 2019, I spent almost every single bit of my free time on Puma because I want a Swift friendly version of fastlane that suits my need and leverages Swift 5 features.
Here’s my review of my …
Issue #1010
It’s hard …
Issue #1009
SwiftUI’s Observation framework makes reactive UI updates effortless—when a property changes, views that depend on it automatically refresh. But what happens when your data lives in UserDefaults? You might want subscription status, …
Issue #1008
Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows Claude Code to connect to external tools, databases, and services. See the official MCP documentation for more details.
MCP servers have three scope levels that …
Issue #1007
Testing in Swift has always required inheriting from XCTestCase and prefixing every method with test. Sound familiar? With Swift 6, Apple introduced Swift Testing — a framework that feels native to modern Swift …
Issue #1006
When building macOS apps, you often need images that fill their container while keeping their aspect ratio - like cover photos or thumbnails. NSImageView doesn’t do this well out of the box. Here’s how to build a custom …
Issue #1005
GitLab CI/CD pipelines create artifacts that take up a lot of storage space. While GitLab has a UI to delete them, doing this for thousands of artifacts one page at a time is slow and boring.
In this article, we’ll build a script …
Issue #1004
We set expire_in: 1h in our CI test jobs, but old artifacts from days ago were still there. Something wasn’t working right.
After some research, we found this is a known bug in older GitLab versions. If you’re on GitLab 16.7 …
Issue #1003
When you build iOS applications on a self-hosted Mac runner, your CI/CD pipeline is likely to encounter a frustrating issue:
Could not find 'bundler' (2.6.9) required by your Gemfile.lock
Your machine has bundler installed. You …
Issue #1002
I recently set up self-hosted runners on EC2 Mac instances for iOS builds. Here are my notes on what actually works—plus all the gotchas I hit along the way.
For complete official instructions, see GitHub’s guide on adding …
Issue #1000
I’ve been using Claude Code daily for months. Here are my notes
Claude Code has built-in thinking modes that allocate more compute for complex problems:
Issue #999
We want to take a timezone like "Europe/Oslo" and figure out what its offset is compared to UTC. During winter, Oslo is +01:00 (one hour ahead), and during summer it’s +02:00 (daylight saving time).
Issue #998
Traditionally, if we wanted to quickly test a function or a piece of logic, we would open a separate Playground file (.playground).
From Xcode 26 we can have access to the new #Playground macro in Swift 6.2. This allows us to declare a …
Issue #997
An interesting feature in iOS 26 is the ability to create morph “Liquid Glass” effects, where views with the .glassEffect() modifier can fluidly morph into one another. This is achieved using GlassEffectContainer and the …
Issue #996
When creating widgets for iOS, especially those that need user input to be useful, one common challenge is guiding the user to configure them. Before iOS 18, a user would add a widget, but then would have to know to long-press it and …
Issue #995
With iOS 18, SwiftUI introduces matchedTransitionSource and navigationtransition as a powerful new way to create zoom animations between views. This allows you to smoothly transition from a small view to a larger, more detailed view, …
Issue #994
With iOS 18, Apple introduced a powerful new tool for creating beautiful, dynamic backgrounds: MeshGradient. Forget simple two-color gradients; mesh gradients let you blend a whole grid of colors together smoothly, creating stunning, …
Issue #993
Before iOS 17, if you wanted to animate a number changing, SwiftUI would just fade the old number out and fade the new one in. It worked, but it wasn’t very exciting.
Here’s how that looked:
struct OldCounterView: View {
@ …Issue #992
In the past, making your screen update when data changed in UIKit meant writing extra code, either with didSet, Combine or some other callbacks. Now, it’s automatic.
With the latest iOS 26 updates, UIKit can automatically watch your …
Issue #991
When building apps in SwiftUI or React, we often need to store values that change — like a counter, user input, or a list of items.
To do this:
useState.@State and @StateObject.But here’s something cool: …
Issue #990
In many popular apps like LinkedIn, Reddit, we can tap again on a bar bar item to scroll to top. Although this behavior is not built in by iOS, we can implement that very easily.
The idea is to keep track of previous selection so we can …
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