How I Used ChatGPT Over A Long Weekend
Real-world examples of how I used ChatGPT over a four-day weekend, providing practical insights for anyone curious about working with large language models.
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The Rule of Small and Large
A personal framework for choosing projects: focus on either small projects for quick learning or large projects for meaningful impact, while avoiding the medium-sized trap.
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.
A Mental Model For Prompting Large Language Models
A practical analogy for understanding and improving how you work with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, moving beyond tips and tricks to develop better judgment.
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.
Building A Customizable Framer Component
A technical walkthrough of building a customizable Framer Code Component for Buttondown email signups, complete with Property Controls and open source code.
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.
Introducing Plinky: My Love Letter To Links
The story behind Plinky, my personal app for saving and organizing links that makes it incredibly easy to save links for later.
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.
Maximum Design For Minimal Effort
A 15-minute live coding talk covering design fundamentals - color, spacing, typography, and animation - to transform basic UI into beautiful interfaces.
Coding As Creative Expression
Exploring whether coding is art or science, and how programming serves as a creative medium for solving problems and expressing ideas through code.
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.
Dev Chats - Joe Fabisevich
An interview with Sam Jarman covering my career journey, the NYC tech scene, consulting vs full-time work, and advice for building a successful software career.
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