Teaching a Local AI Agent to Search the Web (Without Lying to You)
Back in early May, someone on the team said something like "let's just add web search, shouldn't take more than a day." Three months and roughly twent…
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Show DEV: NotchTune v1.2 - a Tiny Notch App to Control Spotify Web
Hey DEV community! 👋 A few days ago I shared NotchTune here — a tiny native macOS app that turns your MacBook's notch into a live Spotify Web controll…
What I Learned Switching Between Swift and AI Studio in the Same Week
As a solo developer building small, useful tools like Tab Reminder, my Chrome extension for scheduling tabs to reopen later, I often find myself switc…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W13
🗓️ This Week This week, I mainly focused on iOS development 📱. I also tested a small workflow using Codex: organizing ideas, creating a design file, a…
How to Use FFmpeg with Swift (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need server-side video processing in your Swift app. Maybe you're building a Vapor backend that transcode…
Building on-device Video Notes in a macOS app
Building on-device Video Notes: SpeechAnalyzer, Foundation Models, and libmpv in a shipping macOS app My macOS video player, Reel , has a feature call…
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Starting iOS Development
When I started learning iOS development, I thought the hardest part would be writing Swift code. I was wrong. The real challenges had very little to d…
I built one iOS app that controls four different Hisense smart-TV platforms — here's how each protocol works
The problem My Hisense remote died last year and I went down a small rabbit hole trying to find a single iOS app that worked across all the Hisense sm…
I compared the licensing tools for my indie Mac app — the honest breakdown
I needed to license a macOS app I sell outside the App Store. I went down the rabbit hole so you don't have to. Here's the honest breakdown — what eac…
How I auto-generate 800+ App Store screenshots across 39 languages and 3 devices
App Store screenshots are the highest-leverage marketing asset an app has — and the most painful to maintain. Now multiply that pain by 39 languages a…
How to Fetch Apple Calendar Events and Reminders in Flutter (macOS)
Building a macOS app with Flutter and need access to Apple Calendar events and Reminders? Flutter cannot directly access EventKit (Apple's framework f…
Swift VSX Support, Biome Type Inference, Agent Guardrails
This week's tooling news clusters around a recurring theme: removing dependencies that were never really necessary. Biome ditches the TypeScript compi…
What's New in Apple's Foundation Models Framework at WWDC 2026
From a single on-device model to a hybrid, multimodal, agentic AI platform — and it's going open source When Apple shipped the Foundation Models frame…
Room-Inspired Local Persistence in Swift: A Production GRDB Architecture
Introduction If you've built Android apps with Room, you already think in a layered persistence model: entities define your schema, DAOs handle querie…
We built a budgeting app that skips the bank login — here's the trade-off
Most budgeting apps open with the same onboarding step: connect your bank account. For a certain group of people, that's where the process ends — not …
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W09
🗓️ This Week Completed the SwiftUI app development tutorial and tested the app I built on a real iPhone🦾 Learned the overall flow of building an iOS a…
Zero Data Leakage: Running Llama-3 Locally on iPhone with MLX-Swift for Ultra-Private Health Logs
Your health data is probably the most sensitive information you own. Yet, most "AI Health Assistants" today require you to ship your symptoms, moods, …
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W08
🗓️ This Week Completed one section of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 Since I want to continue through the tutorial until I can build the app for testing and r…
Improving Your iOS Development Workflow with AI Skills
AI coding assistants have quickly become part of many developers' daily workflows. Whether it's generating boilerplate code, reviewing pull requests, …
Keep Spaghetti in the Kitchen, Not in Your Swift Code: Mastering SOLID 🍝
Hey iOS Devs! 👋 Don't get me wrong, I love a good plate of Spaghetti Carbonara. But when it comes to iOS development, spaghetti belongs in the kitchen…
AdaEngine 0.1.0: a Swift game engine with ECS, plugins, Metal/WebGPU, and hot asset reloading
I’ve been working on AdaEngine, an open-source game engine and app framework written in Swift, and I’ve just released version 0.1.0. The idea behind A…
Парсил zakupki.gov.ru без API — расскажу что узнал
Месяц назад я начал делать pet-приложение для государственных закупок: свайпай тендеры как в Tinder, видишь AI-скоринг заказчика — стоит ли вообще лез…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W07
🗓️ This Week Completed two more sections of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 As I continue working through the tutorial, I can feel my understanding of SwiftUI …
Building Calendar ToDo: Turning Calendar Events into a Done List with SwiftUI and EventKit
Sometimes I want to look back at my calendar and know not only what I planned, but what I actually did. For example: Did I finish my study session? Di…
How I made a perfect recording button. Simple yet complex thing.
Intro From the start of XSpeak , I wanted it to provide the best possible feel for the user: simple, fast, and responsive. Since it's a recording app,…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W06
🗓️ This Week Made a little more progress in the SwiftUI tutorial🦾 Started the journey of building my future portfolio site✈️ First, I created the proj…
Building an Open Source One Sec Alternative: Breaking the Shortcuts Infinite Loop Thanks to iOS 26
If you've ever tried to build an iOS app that intercepts another app's launch, a custom launcher, a Screen Time blocker, a digital wellbeing tool, you…
Local Multimodal LLM on iOS with `llama.cpp` (Swift + ObjC++)
I want a real local pipeline: image in, structured JSON out, no cloud dependency. Optimized to run Metal / ANE or whatever apple exposes ? My goal is …
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W04
🗓️ This Week I had a long holiday during Golden Week in Japan and really enjoyed the break! Because of that, I didn't have as much learning time compa…
Your parity gate must enforce the number you publish: a testing methodology for porting ML models across runtimes
You ship an ML model port from Python to another runtime — Swift, C++, ONNX, whatever. The build succeeds. The model loads. You feed it the canonical …