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? Forget installing extra software! macOS comes with a handy command-line tool called sips (Sc...
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...
How to Create Test Accounts for In-App Purchases and Subscriptions
Testing in-app purchases and subscriptions is a crucial step in releasing a monetized app. You don’t want to use real money during development and testing, a...
My Learnings as Indie App Developer: Building Identity Habits
Success in indie app development isn’t just about coding skills or marketing strategies—it’s about who you become as a developer. Drawing inspiration from Ja...