Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

Forbidden iOS 👹

7 more things Apple doesn't want you to know

Sep 16 • Jacob Bartlett

App Size 101: Drop 40% in an afternoon

Fix the 5 most common low-hanging fruit

Sep 9 • Jacob Bartlett

Advanced Agentic Engineering

Techniques developed while running several parallel agents every day

Sep 2 • Jacob Bartlett

August 2026

Apple Watch brings distributed system headaches to your app

"My Toddler Loves Distributed Systems, So I Built Him a Radar"

Aug 19 • Jacob Bartlett

The Hardest Problems in Mobile Engineering.

10 reasons why your life sucks

Aug 11 • Jacob Bartlett

Introducing... The Tech Tavern Roadmap 🗺️

Level up your skills in your chosen topics

Aug 4 • Jacob Bartlett

July 2026

Designing The Perfect Modular Architecture

Applying everything I've learned across 10 years of building

Jul 29 • Jacob Bartlett

My Top 3 Design “Kisses” I Like to Add to Every App

Several somewhat sexy unrequited design flourishes

Jul 22 • Jacob Bartlett

The history (and future) of technology form factors

And the hunt for a billion dollars

Jul 15 • Jacob Bartlett

Apple Photos and Face Recognition in 512-D Hyperspace

Everyday ML to delight your users

Jul 7 • Jacob Bartlett

June 2026

UIKit for scroll performance!? Real engineers use Metal.

Actually hitting 120fps on a Photos app clone

Jun 23 • Jacob Bartlett

How did Apple cut launch time by 30% in iOS 27?

An Instruments-flavoured optimisation deep-dive.

Jun 17 • Jacob Bartlett

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