Stop Rebuilding the Same SwiftUI Components: A Guide to DesignFoundation
"I'll just write a quick button style... and a text field with validation... and a card component..." Two weeks later you have a bespoke design system…
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Stop Rebuilding Auth, Onboarding, and Dashboards: DesignFoundationPro
Part 2 of 2. This tutorial builds on Part 1 — DesignFoundation core . If you haven't added the base package and theme yet, start there. The core packa…
Swift Structs — Custom Initializers & the Power of self 🔧
Every time you create a struct instance — like AnimeCharacter(name: "Naruto", powerLevel: 9000) — you're calling an initializer . Swift generates one …
Swift Structs — Building Your Own Custom Types 🏗️
So far we've been working with Swift's built-in types — String , Int , Bool , Array . But what if you need a type that doesn't exist yet? What if you …
How to add license keys to a SwiftUI macOS app (in under an hour)
You built a Mac app, you want to sell it outside the App Store, and now you need licensing: a key the customer enters, an activation that sticks, and …
Adding Live Activities to a Pomodoro timer: what the docs don't tell you
A countdown timer is the perfect use case for Live Activities — and also a great way to discover everything the ActivityKit docs gloss over. When I ad…
Swift Closures — Accepting Functions as Parameters 🎯
So far we've been passing closures into functions that Swift provides — like sorted() , filter() , and map() . But what if you wanted to write your ow…
Introducing TimeLog: A Native Time Tracker for iOS and macOS
TimeLog started from a very simple email at work: “Reminder to register working hours.” That was enough to make me think about the way I track my time…
Shipping a puzzle where one shape doesn't quite fit: Off By One
Off By One started from a single premise: what if the whole game was just "find the one that's off"? A grid of geometric shapes, all nearly identical.…
Building a Native macOS Menu Bar Widget with SwiftUI and Glassmorphism
I recently open-sourced SysMonitor, a native macOS menu bar app for tracking system resources like CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, and Network speeds. I built it …
Building an unofficial Dumpert client for Apple TV with Swift 6 and SwiftUI
Dumpert is a Dutch video site I've watched for years, but there's never been an Apple TV app, so I built one. DumpertTV is an unofficial, open-source …
Mastering SwiftData: Building Persistent "Memory" for Your Next AI Chatbot
Imagine an AI chatbot that forgets everything the moment you close the app. Every interaction starts from scratch, every preference is lost, and the "…