Small Steps For Agent-Friendly Codebases
Updating Recap taught me a valuable lesson for making your codebase agent-friendly — small steps can have a big payoff.
Posts tagged "Swift"
16 posts tagged with Swift
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 an indie developer.
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.
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 open source maintainership.
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.
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.
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.
The Learn Swift Podcast: Episode 28
Join me on The Learn Swift Podcast where Steven Sherry and I discuss contracting, computing history, philosophy, Smalltalk, and even a little bit about Swift.