Looking back at an year that was exceptional in more ways than one

2020: My year in review.

Optionals are Swift Language traits that lets the programmer operate on a variable that may or may not have a value at a particular instance.

Optionals in Swift

WWDC 2020 brought many new UIControl APIs to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. One of the best new additions is the system Color Picker

Color Picker in iOS

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how crazy simple it is to integrate MapViews using the MapKit framework, which is now native, in your SwiftUI Applications

SwiftUI MapView

At WWDC 2020 Apple announced a whole new set of interactions with the existing UIMenu and UIAction APIs

UIMenu and UIAction in iOS

Bidding goodbye to a space craft that showed humans more of our little part of the universe.

Farewell, Cassini

How I turned Slack into a small operations layer for my iOS apps, while keeping provider credentials, durable state, and background work behind the right boundaries.

Building Indie Ops: A Slack Interface for My App Portfolio

How I made in-app feedback durable before Slack sees it, routed it by category, and kept the report, investigation, and verified GitHub issue in one thread.

Building a Durable User Feedback Loop from iOS to Slack and GitHub

How Indie Ops turns a Slack request into exact-commit verification, a private TestFlight release, and an automatically finished App Store submission.

Shipping iOS Builds from a Slack Thread with Xcode Cloud

How I used UIKit’s UITabAccessory on iOS 26 to keep Windfall’s global transaction search close at hand without adding another tab.

Using UITabAccessory on iOS 26 for Windfall’s Global Search

How AeroNautical moved from opportunistic iOS background refresh to a server-driven notification pipeline built around observed airport conditions.

Building Reliable Airport Condition Notifications

How PassMaker moved Apple Wallet pass PKCS#7 signing from Firebase Functions to Cloudflare Workers using Web Crypto with OpenSSL-compatible output.

OpenSSL-compatible PKCS#7 Signing on Cloudflare Workers

2024 - Year in Review

In this article, I’ll to share some advice and tour ideas for your next layover in Hong Kong

Layover in Hong Kong

In this article, I’ll to share my insights from taking the TOEFL exam three times

How I scored 106, 114, 116 on my TOEFL over 3 years

Securing OpenAI Text Completion API Requests with Firebase Cloud Functions as a Proxy

API Call times optimization in a data rich iOS app.

Learn how to use python to quickly shorten Apple Media links.

Shorten Apple Media Links with Python

DocumentScannerViewController: Discussion and Tutorial

UICalendarView Tutorial

Discussing UIHostingController, ObservableObjects, UIHostingConfiguration, and more

Using SwiftUI with UIKit in 2022

This is UpdateAvailableKit: a super easy way to check if the installed app has an update available.

Introducing UpdateAvailableKit

This is ReleaseNotesKit, a brand new, elegant, and extremely simple way to present the recent version’s release notes to your users. ReleaseNotesKit uses the iTunesSearchAPI to access information about the app. 

Introducing ReleaseNotesKit

In this article, I share with you how I use a safer version of UserDefaults in my SwiftLang projects.

Safer and cleaner UserDefaults and AppStorage

Sharing my experiences with using a Credit Card as a college student while working as a contractor.

Credit Cards 101

Leverage the UIViewControllerRepresentable in your SwiftUI application to create a font picker.

Creating a Custom Font Picker in and for SwiftUI

A brand new, completely rebuilt version of Sticker Cards

Sticker Cards 2

Learn how to leverage the power of ShazamKit in your SwiftUI applications.

Building a music recognition app in SwiftUI with ShazamKit

Generic code enables you to write flexible, reusable functions and types that can work with any type, subject to requirements that you define.

Introduction to Generics in Swift

A property wrapper helps you mark a clear distinction between the code that defines a property and the code that manages how that property is stored

Introduction to Property Wrappers in Swift