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Eli Perkins

@eliperkins.com
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iOS eng @ Particle ☕️🍻👾 (probably in that order) Past: @microsoft.com, @github.com, @shortcutsoftware.bsky.social, @venmo, @robinpowered

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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 09/09/2026
I genuinely don't understand why a distro needs millions of dollars in funding, or why these companies feel the need to participate. Does this distro make these companies money or make them more secure or productive at this order of magnitude? I can't believe that to be true...
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 09/09/2026
fixed it for you
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 09/09/2026
heh, also my identical order! 👯‍♂️
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 26/08/2026
check out what I've been up to! 🎙️ find out what podcasts are talking about a specific thing, see trends in who is talking about that thing, and set up alerts to get notified when a podcast digs into your topic!
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jordan @jdan.me · 08/08/2026
notes.jordanscales.com/coffee
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I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry.
I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry. “How’s everything going?” I asked, “Crazy times right?” “We’re up to 1 million...
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 06/08/2026
Golly, this website is lovely!
mayerowitz.io
Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 19/06/2026
AI engineers discover semantic tokens too!
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 29/05/2026
happy to have integrated standard.site into my blog some time ago. cool things happen when you adopt open standards! lemme see your publication 👀
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Eli Perkins's Blog
A bunch of ramblings from Eli Perkins
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 22/05/2026
I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/05/2026
Conditional Rendering Over Nil Coalescing Delight your customers by handling these states directly, rather than appeasing the compiler with a fallback value. Felt pretty rant-y writing this one after seeing way too much brittle code with fallback values all over the place.
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Conditional Rendering Over Nil Coalescing · Blog · Eli Perkins
Stop using empty strings, empty arrays and zeros as fallbacks for your nullable values.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 14/05/2026
Tools I Love: Secretive Who knew SSH and Secure Enclaves could be so lovely?
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Tools I Love: Secretive · Blog · Eli Perkins
Using the Secure Enclave inside that hunk of metal and glass on your desk to do the mundane, safely.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 14/05/2026
Tools I Love: Secretive Who knew SSH and Secure Enclaves could be so lovely?
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Tools I Love: Secretive · Blog · Eli Perkins
Using the Secure Enclave inside that hunk of metal and glass on your desk to do the mundane, safely.
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hailey @hailey.at · 29/04/2026
imo one of the biggest problems right now both in open and closed work is models yeeting large, unreviewable PRs. breaking that work down into small chunks - something that we were already doing pre-ai - makes that process much more sustainable imo
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 25/04/2026
I feel this so much everyday. I love technology and toys and coding. But things feel a lot less fun, less human, less enjoyable, and less sustainable than ever for me personally.
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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
Would love if you played around with the product some and let me know what you think would be neat to integrate!
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/04/2026
Ooooh interesting idea. We do group articles into what we call a "story" (e.g., particle.news/story/allbir... is a story, but relates to many articles), so there's potentially a place where we could be publishing `site.standard.document`s 🤔
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/04/2026
News app! We take articles from newsrooms around the globe and show you what different articles about similar events are saying, what the left is saying vs the right, what local reporters are saying vs national reporters. We curate for what we consider high-quality sources, so not RSS-ish really.
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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 · 18/03/2026
Plannotator slipped into my most commonly used tools one day and never left.
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Tools I Love: Plannotator · Blog · Eli Perkins
Make working with your clanker feel more like collaborating in Google Docs.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 18/03/2026
I picked up 3 of these IKEA Matter switches a month or so ago. They work great using the Apple TV and HomePod as the only routers!
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 23/02/2026
Thank you! Send me any and all feedback you have on Particle. 🙇‍♂️
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Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
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Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don't have to | TechCrunch
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 23/02/2026
Check out what we've been up to at @particle.news! Podcast clips on iOS, a new Android app, Particle Plus, and some fun technical deets 👀
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Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don't have to | TechCrunch
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 21/02/2026
When all you have is Markdown, everything looks like a nail-shaped agent skill
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 17/02/2026
I felt spicy this morning, I guess.
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I don't look at the code · Blog · Eli Perkins
It's not the flex you think it is.
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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 · 10/02/2026
and don't hallucinate
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 09/02/2026
Highly recommend this insightful post from @eliperkins.com reflecting on a year of using Kagi: blog.eliperkins.com/one-year-wit...
Quote graphic with yellow quotation marks on black background. White text reads: "It felt like a breath of fresh air whenever I used it. I felt smarter again. Instead of feeling like I was being force-fed some LLM-generated response, I got to surf the web again. I learned about new websites, and rediscovered old ones." Attribution to Eli Perkins
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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 · 03/02/2026
.rem checkboxes 4eva
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Justin Searls @searls.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Whether or not the Xcode agent is any good (I'm dubious), the fact Xcode itself is exposing first-party MCP tools is great news—trying to get Claude/Codex to do fucking anything right in iOS is agonizing. developer.apple.com/…
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 30/01/2026
"Tools I Love: xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo" A handy lil command line tool to visualize changes in my PRs that I use regularly.
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Tools I Love: xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo · Blog · Eli Perkins
Record high quality videos of the iOS simulator right from the command line.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 28/01/2026
Oooh, I'm curious what it is you enjoy most about Kagi News, if you don't mind sharing!
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 28/01/2026
"One Year With Kagi" It's been a year of using not-Google as my default search engine, and I don't think there's any turning back for me. Kagi rocks. 🤘
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One Year with Kagi · Blog · Eli Perkins
Restore your mental health with a quality search engine sans AI slop.
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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 · 23/01/2026
I don't think Gas Town is a project that could (or should) be used by anyone for Real Engineering™, but I think there's some interesting concepts to tease out over time.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 23/01/2026
Dang, this blog from @maggieappleton.com is REALLY good, and echos how I feel about Gas Town. Interesting concepts baked into a tool that has ridden the hype waves to tip of every Silicon Valley engineer's tongue.
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 21/01/2026
This was a lot of fun to build, even if I wanted to tear my hair out every time I ran into some weird AVFoundation behavior. The transcript views use timing data along with a neat lil TextRenderer to create more immersive transcripts that let you follow along without needing to unmute.
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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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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Spot on picture of Minneapolis rn daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2026/01/scar...
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Scarry Times
Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading it to the cloud.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 16/01/2026
"Gardening" I've had this term knocking around in my head for some years, in relation to caring for a codebase. Finally put some words together in a blog to capture how I feel about it.
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Gardening · Blog · Eli Perkins
It's not only for your veggies and herbs.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/01/2026
whoops! should be fixed now, lemme know if it doesn't work for ya.
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 15/01/2026
Another day, another `mise use` that saved my butt. Fewer tools have entered my workflow as quickly as this one did some years back, and I rarely think about the fact that I'm using it 99% of the time.
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Blog - Eli Perkins
A bunch of ramblings from Eli Perkins
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/01/2026
As called on Miami Spanish radio:
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 13/11/2025
another day, another wtf from Apple developer land: developer.apple.com/forums/threa...
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Swift version wrong in Xcode 26.2 … | Apple Developer Forums
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 07/11/2025
Looking forward to the ground rule double system getting implemented where I get 2 likes for free if the post gets stuck under the fence
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Eli Perkins @eliperkins.com · 27/10/2025
FB20846638 for the Fruit Company peeps
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