HealthKit Integration in ChantFlow: Heart Rate, HRV, and Mindful Minutes
Chanting helps you feel calm. Now ChantFlow helps you see it, too. We’ve added gentle HealthKit integration so your Apple Watch can reflect what your body ex...
Haptic Feedback in Wellness Apps: Calm, Rhythm‑Aware Experiences on Apple Watch
If you’ve ever felt a gentle tap on your wrist nudging you along—that’s the quiet power of haptics. In wellness apps, haptic feedback turns stillness into gu...
How Perplexity AI Supercharged My Indie App Development
As an indie developer, I wear many hats — research, design, development, marketing. Doing all of it well (and fast) is hard. Perplexity AI became a simple, r...
Building a Spiritual Wellness App for Apple Watch: Technical Challenges and Solutions
Real-world insights from developing ChantFlow, a sacred mantra counting app that transforms Apple Watch into a digital mala. Learn how to solve SwiftUI const...
Designing macOS UIs for Rapid Development
Good design decisions early on can save weeks of development time when building macOS applications. This isn’t about cutting corners - it’s about designing i...
Convert SVG to PNG on macOS the Easy Way with sips
Need to turn those crisp SVG vector files into PNGs on your Mac? Maybe for an app icon, a website, or just general use? Forget installing extra software! mac...
Building a P2P Collaborative App with Couchbase Lite and SwiftUI
I recently built a peer-to-peer collaborative storytelling app called PeerPlot using SwiftUI and Couchbase Lite. The journey was filled with interesting chal...
Xcode Instruments Under the Hood
Xcode Instruments is a powerful yet often misunderstood performance tool that can dramatically improve your app’s speed and efficiency. But what exactly happ...
Understanding the iOS Delegate Pattern: A Simple Guide
The delegate pattern is one of the most common design patterns you’ll encounter in iOS development. If you’ve used UIKit, you’ve already interacted with it, ...
iOS App Performance Terms: A Beginner’s Guide
When you start investigating why your iOS app is slow or using too much memory, you’ll encounter many technical terms. Let’s break these down into simple exp...