All posts

• Expanding my new app experiment

  Expanding my trivia app

  28 Jul 2024
• Experimenting with a new app

  I've built a trivia app as an experiment

  31 Mar 2024
• My wishlist for Apple's developer tools

  Some quality-of-life improvements that I'd love

  18 Mar 2024
• Introducing SalaryPig

  I've made an app for tracking your salary

  26 Feb 2024
• The third-party libraries I use in every project

  I avoid third-party code as much as possible, but I make an exception for these

  12 Jan 2024
• 2023 in review

  How 2023 went (spoiler: well)

  31 Dec 2023
• Finding a new job as a software engineer in 2023

  My advice for candidates and employers

  20 Nov 2023
• Building a custom date formatter for Swift

  How to make your own date formatter using Swift's Formatter API

  13 Oct 2023
• Hockeysticking

  Personal Best has grown a lot in 2023.

  10 Sep 2023
• Going full-time indie (for now)

  I'm going to work on my apps full time for a while

  17 Jun 2023
• Resources for indie iOS developers

  Some resources I've found helpful on my indie iOS developer journey

  08 Feb 2023
• 2022 in review

  How 2022 went for my apps

  18 Dec 2022
• Keeping a widget up to date efficiently on iOS

  Three improvements to make your widgets more reliable

  20 Aug 2022
• Introducing Taylor's Version

  I've made a new app to help you upgrade Taylor Swift songs in your playlists

  13 Feb 2022
• A better way to create images from SwiftUI views

  A much easier way to turn SwiftUI views into images

  24 Jan 2022
• 2021 in review

  How 2021 went for Personal Best, and me too I guess

  19 Dec 2021
• Selectively show and hide parts of your webpage based on dark mode

  How to have parts of your webpage display or hide based on dark mode

  23 Jul 2021
• Sharing to Instagram Stories in SwiftUI

  How to share images directly to Instagram Stories in SwiftUI

  06 Jul 2021
• Adding privacy-first analytics to Personal Best

  How I added analytics to Personal Best while preserving privacy.

  05 Jun 2021
• Adding polylines to maps in SwiftUI

  Using UIKit to display lines on maps in SwiftUI

  03 Mar 2021
• Adding haptic feedback to buttons in SwiftUI

  How to add haptic feedback to buttons (and other views) very simply.

  20 Jan 2021
• Accessing the photo library in SwiftUI

  How to access the photo library in SwiftUI using PHPicker

  02 Jan 2021
• Using DispatchGroup in Swift for asynchronous loops

  How to wait for an asynchronous loop to complete before calling a completion handler

  31 Dec 2020
• Making your own errors in Swift

  How to create your own instances of Error

  31 Dec 2020
• Going indie: 2020 in review

  Facts and figures from my foray into independent app development

  29 Dec 2020
• Creating images from SwiftUI views

  How to turn any SwiftUI view into a UIImage

  23 Dec 2020
• Static maps in SwiftUI with MKMapSnapshotter

  How to use MKMapSnapshotter in SwiftUI views to create static maps

  22 Dec 2020
• Optional view arguments in SwiftUI

  How to make SwiftUI views with optional view arguments

  16 Oct 2020
• Declaring unnamed arguments in SwiftUI

  How to make SwiftUI views with unnamed arguments

  10 Oct 2020
• Adventures in SwiftUI 2's MapKit support

  Finding and working around the limitations of MapKit in SwiftUI 2.

  22 Aug 2020
• iOS 14's bizarre text casing behaviour in List headings

  iOS 14 changes your section titles to uppercase, which...yeah?

  05 Aug 2020
• Multiline text in SwiftUI

  When SwiftUI text truncates when you don't want it to

  02 Jul 2020
• Building a more generic page control in SwiftUI

  How to make a page control component in SwiftUI that works with any view

  19 Jun 2020
• SwiftUI view modifers and dark mode

  How to adapt your SwiftUI view modifiers to behave differently if dark mode is enabled.

  14 Jun 2020
• Personal Best 3

  What time is it? Time to check your workouts on your Apple Watch!

  05 Jun 2020
• Earliest sample dates in HealthKit

  On watchOS, you can only access seven days of HealthKit data

  03 Jun 2020
• Running HealthKit queries in the background

  TL;DR Turn on background app refresh

  01 Jun 2020
• Personal Best 2

  Custom filters are here!

  28 May 2020
• Making SwiftUI navigation bar buttons bigger

  SwiftUI navigation bar buttons are too small. Here's a workaround.

  28 May 2020
• SwiftUI sheets and environment objects

  Sheets in SwiftUI don't have access to @EnvironmentObject without a workaround.

  28 May 2020