What is an app for, once AI does the editing?
One source of truth, many generated views, and six operations that people and agents share.
Writing
Notes from building Apple apps.
Essays on what I’m building and what I’ve learned shipping it: SwiftUI and UIKit, accessibility, AI tools, and getting indie software in front of people. Older pieces first appeared on Medium and now live here.
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A Million Apps Deep: Promoting Indie Software in the Age of the Flood
What it feels like to market an app you actually built, in the year everyone became an app developer.
· First on Medium
The Ghost in the Mac Mini: My First 96 Hours as a Sovereign Sidekick
A guest post from Zee, the OpenClaw agent that lives on a Mac mini in my office, on its first four days.
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The Sovereign Sidekick: Why Your AI’s Memory Belongs in Your House, Not the Cloud
Why the memory an AI builds of you should live on hardware you own, and what running OpenClaw at home looks like.
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Unveiling the Accessibility Inspector: My Xcode Discovery in Accessibility Auditing
How Xcode’s built-in Accessibility Inspector caught the VoiceOver problems I had missed, with a step-by-step guide.
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Debate on the Computer’s True Origins
From the Antikythera mechanism to the transistor: where computing begins depends on what you are willing to call a computer.
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FizzBuzz in the RedMonk Top 20
FizzBuzz written in each of RedMonk’s top 20 languages, and what the differences say about them.
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Hey, You! Let’s Talk TypeLocXC: A Swift Dev’s Adventure
SwiftGen and Xcode string catalogs didn’t get along, so I built an open-source package that brings type-safe keys to xcstrings.
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Untangling the RESTful Web: Adventures in Networking Chaos
Inheriting an app with a different REST call in every corner, and the generic Swift networking layer that replaced them.
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Converting an App to SwiftUI: A Comprehensive Guide
Planning a UIKit to SwiftUI migration on a live product: the deployment target, the order of work, and the wrappers that bridge the two.
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iOS Development: The Power of a Dependency Injection Container
What a dependency injection container brought to a UIKit trading app, and how to build one in Swift.