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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 21/04/2026

Woulda been nice to be adding an extra $25 to this for this year, but here’s to upping it by $26 next year 🙌 @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/04/2026

baby’s first app of the day feature 🥹 proud of the team here at @particle.news that made this happen!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 01/04/2026

I added Bluesky posts to my blog! A fun way to learn more about ATProto and all the lexicon tools.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 12/02/2026

How about I todon’t, LinkedIn?

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 04/02/2026

Just implemented this on my blog too. Pretty easy to do since the posts are already in Markdown!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 24/01/2026

What 99% of the internet feels like these days

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 23/01/2026

@jdan.me needs more communication notifications. how am I supposed to know who this is coming from?!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 21/01/2026

Checkout podcasts on @particle.news! Read or listen along with podcast clips relevant otherwise stories, listen to full podcast episodes, see episode transcripts and learn more about the podcast hosts and guests. Send feedback my way on how you like this feature and Particle in general too 🙇‍♂️

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 27/10/2025

I mean, sure, I guess? No idea what redesign this refers to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 27/10/2025

This is a fun lil Liquid Glass animation quirk on iOS 26. It looks like the labels on each tab are all out of wack. The text changes, and labels animation from left-to-right in an odd way!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 14/10/2025

Claude can then go consult these docs as I work, rather than only having these docs constrained to the IDE chat in Xcode. Pretty handy!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 07/10/2025

Even custom navbar/toolbar buttons and their transitions are so fun too, like this one for our History filter toolbar item.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 07/10/2025

Particle's Liquid Glass update is now out! I had a lot of fun adapting what's already a beautiful app to Apple's new design. So many of our components were natural fits for glass containers, like adopting `tabViewBottomAccessory` for our podcast playback

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 06/10/2025

Oh, Gemini, my sweet summer child... 😂

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 29/08/2025

Sabrina Carpenter is the definition of horny on main, and "Man's Best Friend" truly slaps. Incredibly enjoyable album.

doge bonking another doge for being horny on main

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 26/08/2025

Xcode 26 going cuckoo hallucinating some new infix operators!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 09/08/2025

This is just too much glass 😵‍💫

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 30/07/2025

This whole situation is… rough. I feel like iOS is gonna have some jank and warts like this for a while, post-Liquid Glass.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 02/07/2025

Dang! I didn't see this happen during WWDC. I loved the Text concatenation API from a styling perspective. I get the argument about localization, but would love to keep it around for literal text strings.

Text concatenation using the + operator is deprecated because it makes it hard to create localized strings that are correct across all languages. Use Text interpolation instead. See documentation on Text for more info on how to produce localized strings. (128144043)

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 01/07/2025

Still haven't gotten the hang of Xcode 26's new tab system. My tab bar looks like this far too often.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 11/06/2025

`ApprovedIntegrationModelPairings.plist` references different OpenAI models, including what looks like a custom Apple-specific model ID of `com.apple.openai.chatgpt`.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 11/06/2025

Xcode 26's `Contents/PlugIns/IDEIntelligenceChat.framework` sure looks interesting 👀

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 30/04/2025

The new Raycast for iOS app looks pretty, but unfortunately, I use zero of these things on Raycast for macOS and I don't intend on using them on iOS either.

Raycast for iOS brings the power of your desktop experience to mobile:
• Chat with dozens of Al models for perfect answers on any task
• Capture and organize thoughts so brilliant ideas never slip away
• Access your Quicklinks instantly for important resources on the go
• Use your text Snippets to maintain productivity anywhere
• Sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices with zero friction

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/04/2025

That @danabra.mov does it again overreacted.io/jsx-over-the... My favorite part:

Quote from the article: "Yes, this is weird. It is also glorious."

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 04/04/2025

welp. maybe next year...

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 03/12/2024

Is there a way to invoke a test for a _specific argument_ with Swift Testing via `swift test`? Xcode exposes this within the UI, but reading through the source code for swift-testing, I still don't see any ways to invoke a test for a specific argument via the CLI.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 14/11/2024

When the scroll bar hides behind the tab bar

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/11/2022

It’s been days… beginning to think I won’t make it out of here with my data.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/11/2022

Has anyone been running into an issue with TestFlight where internal builds are “expired” and other weird issues related to provisioning profiles? It seems to mainly affect internal builds and not external ones, but it’s really annoying that it’s so intermittent!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 09/11/2022

Hope y’all are enjoying @github Universe! Some new goodies dropping on GitHub for iOS TestFlight today too ✨👀✨

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 28/10/2022

The real travesty of macOS Ventura’s System Settings.app. 🧐

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 13/10/2022

I would love to tend to my Threads, @SlackHQ . I know I’m getting pinged in Threads because of my numerous notifications for them. But I have no idea where they are! (hugops to the folks who are working on this) ((also, big same twitter.com/adrianmg/status/1580625…))

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 31/08/2022

Some fun new goodies in this week’s TestFlight 👀 💖 Edit code within PRs, right from GitHub for iOS! 💖

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 07/06/2022

🎉🥳🎉 Nice to see a feature during WWDC!

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 06/06/2022

This is a nice new user experience with Xcode! #WWDC22

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/03/2022

TIL that Xcode itself uses GraphQL! 🤯 For talking with GitHub, of course 😅

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 11/02/2022

I love a good lint rule to help catch errors before they hit production. What are your most helpful SwiftLint custom rules? We’ve got this lil naive regex to help us avoid using `Dictionary(uniqueKeysWithValues:)` where possible, since it can crash if the keys are not unique.

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/01/2022

Ooof. Why make it so hard to get an adequate amount of tests?! I hope this “broad access” is expanded more broadly within days. twitter.com/Javi/status/14834893304…