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Love seeing job advertisements that say “native mobile” then you look inside and it says RN 🙃 such a joke

Added my app to review last night then said, oh I’ll start work on this feature a coworker asked for. Ya it took me like 1.5 hours is all to implement m4b support so now I’m debating do I pull my app out of review and just send it as well. I feel like it is a yes since it was another easy win

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Braden @bswift.io · 25/09/2026

I for sure agree. It is pretty pathetic how easy it is to bypass the few in game filters there are. Blizzard really should step it up and feed questionable chats to CMs to chat ban at a minimum and for repeat offenders suspend/full ban them.

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Braden @bswift.io · 25/09/2026

But ya it is sad how toxic and awful the wow community is in general 😞

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Braden @bswift.io · 25/09/2026

I’ve been using an addon called Global Ignore List and it has made a world of difference. It lets you filter out so many things. It blocks slurs, boost sales, whatever you want. I hope it works in forever. It might at least partially solve the problem.

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Braden @bswift.io · 16/09/2026

If you want to write and understand swift the most common recommendations I see are www.hackingwithswift.com/100 and www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui. I haven’t gone through them myself (I learned swift 1.0 by reading the manual Apple released) but I’ve heard they are good.

hackingwithswift.com

The 100 Days of Swift

Follow the 100 Days of Swift and learn to build apps for free.

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 16/09/2026

"You must spend money to make money" said Frog. "But, you must also spend money to have no money left" replied Toad. "That is true" said Frog.

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Braden @bswift.io · 14/09/2026

Only disappointment

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/09/2026

It is always nice chatting with a co-worker and not feeling like you are crazy afterwards because you have the same complaints and concerns.

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/09/2026

I definitely think the will be a common way for apps to be developed moving forward. Especially because you get all the benefits of being fully native with little extra work.

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/09/2026

Shopify posted about how they are moving back to native thanks to AI. I had a similar experience lately with doing a task that I wanted to test on iOS and Android. It worked out great. I wrote the iOS code with Claude and it was high quality and then it ported good code over to Android.

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Xcode Releases @xcodereleases.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apple has confirmed that #Xcode 27.1 with support for the iPhone Duo will be coming "later this month": developer.apple.com/iphone-duo Original: techhub.social/@xcodereleases/11724…

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/09/2026

Is it even worth replying to that review, probably but I don’t know what to say that isn’t going to be sarcastic at the moment.

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/09/2026

Whelp got my first 1 star review on an app I made myself… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry I let you fully test and use my app before asking for any money to import more books?

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/09/2026

While SwiftData is from Apple I would avoid it. It has a lot of gotcha’s. I use github.com/pointfreeco/... which is extremely similar and easy to use. The biggest upside being it works directly with SQLite so it works anywhere not just views.

github.com

GitHub - pointfreeco/sqlite-data: A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData, powered by SQL and supporting CloudKit synchronization.

A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData, powered by SQL and supporting CloudKit synchronization. - pointfreeco/sqlite-data

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Braden @bswift.io · 04/09/2026

And that is just the start. I have plenty of other complaints as well. I just don’t like RN for a lot of reasons is the short answer.

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Braden @bswift.io · 04/09/2026

Well I feel very confident in my iOS knowledge and am generally considered the swift expert where I’ve worked before. I don’t particularly care for web tech, especially when RN gives you the worst of native and web dependency management. Plus the way in which it was forced upon me really wasn’t cool

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Braden @bswift.io · 04/09/2026

I should probably update my resume in general… The question is how do I put that I’ve suffered through react native for a year and mostly pivoted during that year to backend. I want to focus on iOS still but I sure as hell don’t want to do more react native or have people try to convincing me on it.

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/09/2026

Wow not cool… blaming me for not having a thing when I sent it to you the day before…

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Braden @bswift.io · 02/09/2026

Always fun when you co-worker is anxiously awaiting your work and when you send it over 1 minute after they ask for it again and they go AFK for like 30+ minutes…

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Paul Hudson @twostraws.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pro tip for folks working with Apple documentation: add ".md" to the end of a URL to get it as Markdown – much lighter to load, and also friendlier for agents. Example: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

developer.apple.com

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/08/2026

Was all excited for my first trail subscription and it was immediately followed with an unsubscribe 😞 maybe they will still like it and resubscribe or purchase it…

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Braden @bswift.io · 20/08/2026

Apparently I made a mistake in introducing my boys to Palworld because now they just fight over who gets to play on the PS5…

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Braden @bswift.io · 15/08/2026

I swear my children are more concerned about having 3 meals called breakfast, lunch, and dinner than they are with actually being full…

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

Bah good to know. I’ve run that before but didn’t know it also cleaned up AssetsV2

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

The POC I’ve been working on is blazing fast on iOS thanks to Metal. On a cheap Android device it is so slow… It takes 3+x the time of a recording to process things… I really need to get hardware acceleration with the GPU working for it but even google is meh on their GPU support for Android…

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

Wait recent post? Is he back to doing iOS/Swift develop posts?

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Braden @bswift.io · 03/08/2026

Why does Apple have 65gigs of simulator backups in /System/Library/AssetsV2 which is a SIP protected folder! 😡 In all my years doing iOS development I’ve never had it show up as a place of eating a bunch of storage… This has been extra painful with work only giving me a 500gb HD

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Braden @bswift.io · 31/07/2026

Anyways I found a library that I’m pretty sure does what I want with a bit more work but it is Apache 2 instead of EUPL.

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Braden @bswift.io · 31/07/2026

Just had Claude basically tell me, “if the owner of this library is small you can either bully them or ignore them and use the software as closed source anyways” 😬 yikes

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Braden @bswift.io · 29/07/2026

Google hasn’t added any on device LLM stuff like Apple!?!? Foundation Models is so nice for basic LLM tasks. I guess the time has come to cross the hugging face boundary and get that working on iOS and Android once I get whisper.cop fully working.

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Braden @bswift.io · 29/07/2026

Just now seeing I can add animations to my load calls… How did I miss this before? It will be so nice to go update stuff to use that and get free animations.

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/07/2026

Just whisper.cpp so far as it was also very easy to setup. Looking at getting Hugging Face stuff up and running next.

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/07/2026

iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence stuff has been pretty great for my initial POC and keeping things simple.

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/07/2026

So far just using the on device voice transcription and Foundation Models LLM stuff. But now I’m working on getting Whisper and hugging face models running on device so we can share more exact behavior between iOS and Android.

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Braden @bswift.io · 27/07/2026

I’m getting to play with on device AI stuff for work and it is so much fun getting to do native stuff again

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Braden @bswift.io · 19/07/2026

Just had my first sale on my app that wasn’t friends or family. It pushed me over the threshold of have I spent or made money on my apple developer license this year for the first time. I’m not making tons of money obviously but it feels good to sort of break even for once.

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Braden @bswift.io · 19/07/2026

Still it is wild to me that it would flip my light and dark mode colors there…

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Braden @bswift.io · 19/07/2026

That color bug the other day, ya it wasn’t a simulator bug. It is an iOS26 bug. I finally updated my phone from 18 🙃 and now my phone is doing the same thing. So no more tinted glass modifier just a solid background for that view 🤷‍♂️

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Braden @bswift.io · 16/07/2026

So to sync this to our new system as we migrate users we have to check if the note ID was nulled out between the before and after images of the database row…

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Braden @bswift.io · 16/07/2026

So at work we have custom labeled checkboxes that companies can add to their employee notes. The system for unchecking a checkbox is RIDICULOUS. It goes to the table where the association between the note and the checkbox being checked lives and nulls out the note ID instead of changing its value…

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Braden @bswift.io · 13/07/2026

I am also sad about the fact he is no longer on the core team when I see him post.

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Braden @bswift.io · 13/07/2026

Sadly Apple took WWDC 2018 videos down from being searchable… So luckily there is this Reddit post that links to the direct download that is still up: www.reddit.com/r/cpp/commen... I have downloaded it myself just to make sure it doesn’t get lost if the link ever breaks.

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Braden @bswift.io · 13/07/2026

Every time I see Dave Abrahams post on the swift forums I am reminded of his presentation Embracing Algorithms from WWDC 2018. It is the most influential presentation on how I approach software development (even though I often fail to apply its principles).

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Braden @bswift.io · 10/07/2026

I’ve been doing a decent amount of go stuff at work lately and I just miss the functional aspects of swift that I now take for granted. Like being able to do first(where:) calls instead of looping and breaking in first match.

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/07/2026

Also I very much appreciate you trying to help me debug this issue.

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Braden @bswift.io · 09/07/2026

Ya the bundle is also in a package not the main bundle. I have an overload of the bundle finder that I use so it resolves in previews as well. Historically it was busted and wouldn’t load any assets in previews (supposedly that is fixed now, but it wasn’t last I tried…).

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