An archive of a conversation I had on Mastodon — It started with this Toot I first got a reply from Chris from objc.io Chris Eidhof (@chris@m.objc.io) @dimillian@mastodon.social @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online have you considered moving to LazyVStack? Are you depending on…m.objc.io My reply which start a whole other conversation about why I switched the main tilmeline in Ice Cubes from a LazyVStack to a List

We don’t realise it yet, but our daily workflow will be completely changed and integrated with those new kind of tools — I’ve spent a lof of time last weekend playing with first Open AI ChatGPT and then Midjourney. At first I laughed, then I started to be completely brain fucked at the possibilities, and then I finally realised the potential and started to use it for more productive endeavours. Note: I…

A simple open source SwiftUI app for Diablo II — My favorite video game franchise of all time is most probably Diablo, I’ve been playing it since forever, and the release of the remaster of Diablo II (Diablo II Resurrected) last year was the best thing to ever happen to the franchise. I’ve been playing Diablo II for the last…

You should use it, but also be aware of some of its limitations — I’ve only recently started to use AttributedString, it’s been introduced with iOS 15 and as the Medium application also support iOS 14 I was not really looking into it. However, as we write even more parts of the app in SwiftUI, and iOS 16 is approaching, I felt it was…

I’m the first SwiftUI fan, I’ve been doing it since day 1, I was at the WWDC for the lauch, the next hour I was already making an open source project about it. We were all amazed, it was the greatest Apple surprise of the decade for us developers. It…

And a few inspiring quotes — Lately, I’ve been back to reading, a lot. Somehow I got really bored of video games after playing Elden Ring for hundreds of hours (I’m obsessive like that) that I only managed to play few games of Civilization VI after that but that’s about it. After finally finishing Sapiens (it…

A short opinion piece — I’ve seen countless tweets and stories lately about iOS app architecture. …

A deep dive into our ever growing SwiftUI usage. In my last article, I had a small section about SwiftUI, but I didn’t really go further into our usage, because it was focused on the architecture as a whole. But the simplicity of SwiftUI plays a big part in this…

A follow-up to my previous article Last June, we started to transition from a monolithic architecture to a package-based one. How we build SwiftUI features in the Medium application A tale about transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a packages based one.medium.engineering You can read the previous article above to get familiar with what we were trying to do and where we wanted to go. The goal of this new article is…