Learning and sharing at Hacking with Swift. Creator of Kickstart, Unwrap, Ignite, and two small children.
Bath, UK
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My new Mac app is out today! It's called Kickstart, and it has just one job: helping indie app developers make more money on the App Store. It is *packed* with features, many of which are completely free. Get it here: apps.apple.com/app/kickstart…
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The next Hacking with Swift+ live stream is this Saturday at 5pm UK time / 9am Pacific! We're making our third app building on the new OS 27 APIs – this one someone *must* ship, because it's too good not to 👀 hackingwithswift.com/plus
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Petition to ban restaurants from using AI-generated imagery in their menus 🗳️ (This comes from @JustEatUK, surprising no one.)
ALT Hot and sour soup with a picture of gyoza.
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The .drawOn symbol effect animates SF Symbols as if they're being drawn with a pen, with three speed options for controlling how layers animate. hackingwithswift.com/quick-s…
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Just sent the first Kickstart newsletter – one tip for App Store success every time, plus the latest Kickstart news. If you subscribed and didn't get it, check your spam folder! You need to verify your email.
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There's an open-source SwiftUI agent skill that catches the mistakes AI tools keep making: deprecated modifiers, accessibility gaps, performance pitfalls. One command to install, and your AI-generated SwiftUI gets a serious quality boost. hackingwithswift.com/article…
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Sneak peek: There's a reason I went to an iPhone Duo workshop this week. Big skill update coming this week! 👀
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📨 The Kickstart newsletter: every issue will have one tip for App Store success, and the latest news on my Kickstart app. It will be fairly irregular, and sent only when I have something to say. First issue goes out today! newsletter.kickstart.tools
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I see the App Store is having a moment. Clearly deserves a rejection under guideline 2.1(a), App Completeness 😉
ALT The App Store has started showing internal strings rather than localisations.
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Anthropic: Opus 5.5 has unlimited power at incredible speed. Oh, and we have Sonnet 5.5 for lower-cost work.
OpenAI: We're halving how much you get for $200 a month, but here are some temporary credits.
Since Sol 5.6 Codex pretty much didn't put a foot wrong – what happened?
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For HWS+ subscribers: When JSON is messy or completely unstructured, Codable becomes more trouble than it's worth. A custom JSON type with @dynamicMemberLookup can let you dig through any structure using clean dot syntax. hackingwithswift.com/plus/wo…
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I got to try ChatGPT’s new dots personal assistant ahead of time as part of their Dev Early Access Community testing. TL;DR: It saved my day today.
Longer version: I had an early train to London today. I woke up to find it had been cancelled (yay, UK trains!), and I had to get a later train – I would end up being late for my event, and the later train would likely be swamped with people. There was an earlier train available, but it was in 20 minutes; there was no way I could get there in time.
It turns out that my dot had spotted the problem, read the cancellation email to see my ticket was valid on earlier trains, then looked up the live tracking for the earlier train and found that it was running late – it hadn’t even left its starting station yet. It did this with zero input from me; not even an initial request, just fully autonomously.
So, I was able to leave more or less as normal, head to the train station, and catch the earlier train just fine.
Train: Caught. Day: Saved. Me: Impressed.
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You can pass multiple configurations into a single ModelContainer, handy for keeping some data in permanent storage and others in memory only. Just remember: related models must always share the same store! hackingwithswift.com/quick-s…
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Migrating a large project to Swift concurrency is a big ask all at once. @preconcurrency lets you annotate modules and individual APIs as "pre-concurrency" to suppress warnings incrementally, buying yourself time to migrate properly. hackingwithswift.com/swift/5…
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Sunday Build with HWS+: Why not try a deceptively simple SwiftUI game: tap the one green circle in a grid of red ones before time runs out, with multiple difficulty variations to keep things interesting. #SundayBuild hackingwithswift.com/plus/li…
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I don't think a single person has received today's promised Codex reset from OpenAI. Literally no one. Is this part of a @thsottiaux plan to make everyone burn through tokens then take the weekend off when they hit zero? 🙃
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