Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

Through the Ages: Apple Concurrency APIs

Play with working code from 1977 to the modern day

14 hrs ago •

Real-time systems with Combine and WebSockets

Three real-world examples of real-time systems

Jun 16 •

Customised client-side AI with Apple's CLIP models

Perform Core ML magic, entirely offline

Jun 10 •

Gifts and Growth Hacking

Share Jacob's Tech Tavern; get free stuff!

Jun 3 •

I trapped your soul in a trading card (with client-side AI)

My most elaborate side project yet!

Jun 2 •

May 2025

The Swift Apple doesn't want you to know

Forbidden functions, deranged keywords, and plain weird syntax

May 27 •

Advanced Swift Concurrency: AsyncStream

How and when to use this powerful Swift Concurrency tool

May 19 •

Apple Tried To Kill My Startup

How I defeated Apple by invoking their greatest fear

May 13 •

Impostor Syndrome and Business Acumen

In short: My paid subscription pricing will go up by 60% on May 15, 2025.

May 6 •

SwiftUI Scroll Performance: The 120FPS Challenge

Squeezing high performance from the magic

May 5 •

April 2025

SwiftUI Map is RIDICULOUSLY Powerful

A quick guide to this shockingly versatile API

Apr 29 •

Fitting the Lapse experience into 15 MegaBytes

How we optimised the world's most complex app clip

Apr 21 •

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