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In iOS 27 and Xcode 27 Liquid Glass will be applied to your app automatically.
By Robin Winters · First published June 30, 2026 · Republished October 2, 2026 Original LinkedIn edition · Readable HTML edition · Robin’s portfolio…
Building an iOS Moderation Layer with Apple Foundation Models framework and Firebase
By Robin Winters · First published April 2, 2026 · Republished October 2, 2026 Original LinkedIn edition · Readable HTML edition · Robin’s portfolio…
Fitness event feeds: explicit dates, stable identity and visible conflicts
Robin Winters · October 2, 2026 · robin.ac A map can look polished while the events behind it are ambiguous. Two feeds may repeat a record, supply d…
What App Sandbox actually takes away from a Mac disk cleaner
A disk cleaner is a badly-shaped citizen of the App Sandbox: its whole job is to look at files the user did not explicitly pick. DiskWise ships twic…
Scripta 3.4.7: schedule local meeting recordings without sending anything to the cloud
Follow-up to Building a 100% local meeting transcription app for macOS — Scripta already records dual-channel audio and summarizes with a local LLM.…
Building a Zero-Middleman Peer-to-Peer Remote Desktop using WebRTC and Native OS APIs
Abstract Most traditional remote desktop solutions operate on a client-server relay paradigm: every desktop video frame and every mouse movement is…
Goodbye pbxproj: A Friendly Guide to Xcode 27.2's New JSON Project Format
If you've built iOS apps on a team, you know this moment. You pull main , Git says CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in project.pbxproj , and you o…
Six things about WKWebView the docs don't tell you
I have spent the last few months building a browser on WKWebView. Not a wrapper around a single web view — a real one, with tabs, separate cookie ja…
Sound Analysis Has No cat_hiss Label
Apple Sound Analysis can hear a meow. It cannot name a hiss Apple's built-in Sound Analysis model can label cat_meow and cat_purr . It has no cat_hi…
A five-check workflow for reviewing an AI-built SwiftUI app
Website illustration, followed by a real simulator screenshot of the Reading List demo. I maintain iOS Agent Skill , an open-source collection of Sw…
Putting Apple's Virtualization framework under a Flutter app
I maintain WSL Manager , a Flutter desktop app from 2021 that saves you from typing wsl.exe flags. Version 2 runs the same app on Apple silicon, whe…
Brewwery a native macOS GUI for Homebrew
Homebrew is usually one of the first tools I install on a new Mac. Its command-line interface is fast, reliable, and familiar. But over time, a Home…
UsageNow Tracks OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini and Antigravity Usage from Your Mac Menu Bar
I rarely use just one AI coding tool anymore. Codex may be working on one task, Claude Code on another, Gemini CLI is useful for a different workflo…
iOS 27 Just Redefined Swift: 5 Game-Changing Features Every iOS Developer Must Master
If you’ve been building iOS applications over the last few years, you are already familiar with the shift toward declarative UI and structured concu…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W19
🗓️ This Week After all the hot weather we had up until last week, the days have suddenly turned much cooler. It finally feels like autumn is here🍂.…
Shipping a paid Mac app outside the App Store in two days
On Wednesday Apple showed the iPhone Duo and its status ring: battery, Wi-Fi and volume folded into one small ring. I wanted it on my Mac. By Friday…
iPhone Duo for iOS Developers: What Actually Changes in Your Swift Code
Apple announced the iPhone Duo today — its first foldable iPhone. A 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display when you open it, ships with iO…
How much faster is macOS CI on dedicated runners? Five open-source projects, measured
Originally published on the Manzanita blog . I work on Manzanita, one of the runners compared below — so weigh the source. I've tried to make every…
iOS Visual Regression Testing with simctl and Pixel Diffs
A practical UIKit screenshot pipeline, a paywall layout bug, and the failure modes to fix before trusting CI. iOS visual regression testing can star…
The DNS Field That Could Run Anything as Root
Sonar has a Control tab. One of the things it does is switch the DNS resolver for your Mac — tap Cloudflare, tap Quad9, or paste in the address of y…
Open Source: MacPilot — a native macOS menu-bar toolbox with 11 everyday tools (Swift, zero dependencies)
I've been maintaining a native macOS menu bar app called MacPilot and finally open-sourced it: https://github.com/misswell/MacPilot It's built with…
Measuring the Wrong Process for Eight Months
Code: Megapixel99/kestrel In What a Hibernated Browser Tab Actually Costs I reported that Kestrel's memory ladder held 121.7 MB against an unmanaged…
Your camera roll is part of your developer threat model
Developers spend a lot of time protecting source repositories, CI secrets, cloud consoles, and password managers. One copy of the same data often es…
Dropping BadUSB Keystrokes on macOS Before They Open Spotlight
A Japanese version of this is on Note . A few weeks ago, I watched a demonstration of an OMG Cable attacking a Mac. If you haven't seen one in perso…
Your agent didn't fail. You closed the lid
SleepSwitch is a macOS menu bar toggle that stops your Mac from sleeping — lid closed included. One click, no password prompts, and a battery guard…
I ship iOS apps to the App Store without owning a Mac, using GitHub Actions' free macOS runners
I don't own a Mac. When I built my last iOS app (Citolex, a speed reading app with a couple of native Swift plugins), I didn't want to buy one or pa…
Swift ARC Doesn’t Scan the Heap — I Removed strong_release from SIL to Prove It
Also available: Korean version · Source code and reproducible experiments A source-to-runtime experiment with Swift 6.3.1: inspect ownership in SIL,…
I gave my coding agent its own computer
I run coding agents with shell access all day, and for a long time there was a low-grade dread underneath it. The permission prompts get annoying en…
How I Built an AI-Powered Reel & Short Maker in Swift: Handling Auto-Cutouts & Beat-Syncing Efficiently
Hey DEV community! 👋 As an indie iOS developer, I’ve always been fascinated by short-form video algorithms and how visual retention works. Over the…