NCNathan Chenginanvildevnotes.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 2 min readFitting a chat model and an image model on one iPhoneI wanted an AI assistant I could use without my conversations living on someone else's server, and one that kept working on a plane. So I built one for the iPhone. Here's what it took to get a chat mo00
Vvasundhraintechblogs3.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 6 min readYou Sent One Request. Your iOS App Did Six Things First. When an iOS API call takes 2 seconds, what do you usually do? Check the backend logs? Look at the API response time? Blame the network? That can be a mistake. A network request isn't a single operatio00
MSMike Salariinsalaridev.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 11 min readSwift 6 rejected the race. ARC stayed atomic.Swift 6 rejected the unsafe program exactly where I expected it to. I had a small reference-type experiment with state shared across concurrency boundaries. In Swift 6 language mode, the negative cont00
RCRoshan Chaturvediinjustacademyofficial.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 20 min readiOS Application Development From Scratch: A Beginner's Honest MapMost people remember the first time an app they wrote ran on a real phone. It might have been a counter that went up by one, or a greeting that used their own name, and yet the feeling was bigger than00
DTDeskferry Teamindeskferry-notes.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 4 min readInspect macOS Pasteboard Types Without Logging Clipboard ContentsWhen a macOS copy/paste integration fails, the first question is often "what is on the pasteboard?" That question can lead a developer to print the copied text or dump raw bytes into a log. For a user00
RGRaunak Gengitiinraunakgengiti.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 5 min readKeeping pose tracking locked on a solo player at a busy pickleball court with Apple VisionI'm building Pickle Sensei, an iPhone app that coaches your pickleball technique. You prop the phone up, step into frame on your own, hit one stroke, and the app scores your form and gives you one thi03A
RWRobin Wintersinrobinwinters.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 5 min readA SwiftUI search adapter needs its own request ownershipRobin Winters · October 3, 2026 · Native iOS engineering and fitness technology This standalone teaching example and article were prepared with coding-assistant support. The events are synthetic. The 00
RWRobin Wintersinrobinwinters.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 4 min readVerify a Swift package’s minimum toolchain and CLI contractRobin Winters · October 3, 2026 I’m an iOS / Full Stack Engineer at ShowFlex, a shipped iPhone fitness product. This article examines a separate, public Swift teaching package prepared with coding-ass00
LCLalana Chamikainlalanachamika.hashnode.dev·Oct 3 · 2 min readCandleKit: a native SwiftUI candlestick chart (no WebView)I built CandleKit because every "native" candlestick chart I found for SwiftUI was either a WebView wrapping some JS charting library, or a basic line chart pretending to be a candlestick chart. I wan00
RWRobin Wintersinrobinwinters.hashnode.dev·Oct 3 · 3 min readShipping ShowFlex: native iOS event discovery with SwiftUI, MapKit and FirebaseRobin Winters — iOS/Full Stack Engineer, 2024–present I’m an iOS / Full Stack Engineer at ShowFlex, a shipped iPhone fitness product available on the App Store. Since 2024, my work has spanned Swift a00