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Oct 5, 2026 • Issue #156

Swift Server Has Another Google

Last week, Google Cloud introduced a Swift SDK for server-side development. It covers more than a hundred Google Cloud s...

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#155 The Month iPhone Duo Gives Developers

#154 A “Native” Debate Over SwiftUI Animation

#153 The Opportunities and Challenges of iPhone Duo

#152 When the Mac mini’s Price Is No Longer Mini

#151 Just a Few Keystrokes

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Sep 30, 2026 by Fatbobman

Letting AI See SwiftUI: Xcode Preview MCP in Practice — Pitfalls and Hopes

Xcode 26.3 marked the first time Apple opened its own capabilities to external agents through MCP. Many of those capabilities were already reachable through the CLI, but Preview rendering was entirely new. Xcode 27 went a step further with a headless MCP server, making these tools even easier to call, so I wove Preview rendering deeply into my AI workflows. Along the way I ran into a few pitfalls, and came away with some reflections and hopes.

#SwiftUI #AI #Dev Tools

Sep 23, 2026 by Fatbobman

ArrangementView: Think Before You Arrange

In the first time I saw the `ArrangementView` API, I had a vague sense of discomfort, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. It wasn’t until I actually used it in Xcode 27.1 beta that the feeling began to take shape. After reading more of Apple’s materials and putting the API back into the context of the iPhone Duo, I realized that this discomfort came from two places. Part of it was simply that I hadn’t understood where the API was meant to fit; once I did, that part made sense. The other part came from the API itself—and remained even after I understood its design.

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Sep 17, 2026 by Fatbobman

From pbxproj to xcproj: Xcode Project Configuration Gets a JSON Format

Apple has released the 27.2 beta. Although the iPhone Duo simulator is still missing, the new `project.xcproj` is quite eye-catching. It replaces the `project.pbxproj` build graph inside the `.xcodeproj` bundle, not the entire project bundle. What are its highlights, what problems does it solve, and what remains unchanged? This article will explore these aspects.

#AI #Dev Tools

Sep 2, 2026 by Fatbobman

SwiftData: Optimization Starts with Modeling

Once a dataset grows large, SwiftData lists start to stutter. This has been the performance complaint I've heard most often these past few years. Once you actually spend time on it, you find that the slowness isn't only the long initial load — the enormous memory footprint drags performance down just as much. This article looks at why these problems show up in SwiftData, and where to start fixing them.

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Aug 19, 2026 by Fatbobman

From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI (Part 1): Why I No Longer Wait for Stronger Models

From Q&A and code generation to letting agents take on more complete pieces of work, I have now been using AI for several years.

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Aug 19, 2026 by Fatbobman

From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI (Part 2): What I Mean by Delegability

How to build a trusted AI collaborator? Discover "delegatability" using a deterministic runtime and external docs, featuring a practical Task-Driven workflow guide.

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Aug 12, 2026 by Fatbobman

ContentBuilder Explained: The Secret Behind SwiftUI's Type-Checking Speedup

In WWDC 2026, Apple engineers introduced a new SwiftUI feature — ContentBuilder. From the usage perspective, it seems to be nothing more than a ViewBuilder with a wider scope. Apple also claims this adjustment can significantly improve type-checking performance. This article will dissect the essence of ContentBuilder and explore the secrets behind the performance boost.

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Aug 6, 2026 by Fatbobman

Controlling Orphans in SwiftUI Text: Uncovering the Undocumented avoidsOrphans

SwiftUI's Text has a default behavior: when the final line of a paragraph is left holding a single stranded word or character, it proactively pushes the complete word group from the preceding line down to join it, so that nothing is left standing alone. This bit of thoughtfulness is right most of the time, but it comes at a cost — the preceding line may be left with a wide gap. In narrow containers, or in mixed Chinese-English typesetting, that can end up disrupting the balance of the paragraph rather than preserving it.

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