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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I built SwiftNotch: a productivity dashboard for the MacBook notch
The notch on a MacBook is strange real estate. It is always there. It sits at the top of the screen, close to the menu bar, close to system controls, …
What I learned rebuilding a macOS gaming diagnostics app in Swift
A previous version of this article described CloudBoost as open source. That is no longer accurate. The public GitHub repository now contains releases…
How I export 1.2-gigapixel images on an iPhone without running out of memory
Rendering a big image on iOS is one of those things that looks trivial until your app gets killed by the OS mid-export. CGContext , draw, makeImage() …
I built a native macOS terminal so I'd stop losing track of my AI agents
Once I started running Claude Code sessions in parallel, my bottleneck moved. The agents write the code. What slows everything down is me figuring out…
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…
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…
Building an AI-Powered Photo Cleaner: Lessons from the App Store
Last year my iPhone popped the dreaded "Storage Full" notification for the hundredth time. I checked the breakdown: 68% was photos. Not memories — jun…
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…
Watch a coding agent silence a Swift 6 data race instead of fixing it
Give a coding agent a Swift file that stopped compiling under strict concurrency, and a lot of the time it will make the build green by adding one ann…
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…
How Agent Island Detects Claude Code and Codex Session State
I built Agent Island around a small problem that becomes painful during long agentic coding runs: the task does not always fail loudly. A Claude Code …
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 …
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 …
Swift Dictionaries
We've already seen how arrays let us store lots of values in one place. But arrays have a problem — you have to remember positions to get your data ba…
Building a Privacy-First AI App for Patient & Caregiver Doctor Visit Notes
Hi DEV Community, I wanted to share a project I've been working on called AI Doctor Notes. It’s an app built specifically to solve a common problem: w…
We built a weather app that stops pretending everyone feels the same temperature
Most weather apps answer the wrong question. They tell you it's 12°C outside. That's accurate. But whether 12°C means you need a coat depends entirely…
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,…
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…
I built GhostType: inline AI text completion for every app on macOS
Writing the same kind of sentences over and over — meeting replies, status updates, polite refusals — eats a surprising amount of the day. LLMs can fi…
I built my daughter a geography app. It took 67 days and zero dependencies.
Two months ago, I started building an iOS app for my daughter. This week, I shipped it. MapSprout is a US geography app for kids — they learn the 50 s…
I built an AI planner that forces you to do only 4 things a day — here's why
I have a confession: I'm a productivity app addict. Notion, Todoist, Things, TickTick, Bear, Obsidian — I've tried them all. And every single one fail…