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How are Actors Implemented in Swift?
They aren't magic, just bloody complicated
Sep 30 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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The Terrible Technical Architecture of my First Startup
A system that could only be built with the confidence of a 25-year-old Deloitte graduate with an AWS certification
Sep 22 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Building a Launch Time Optimisation System
Disappoint your users faster
Sep 16 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Automate all the things with Swift Subprocess
Is Swift finally ready for Scripting use cases?
Sep 8 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Claude Code has made me 50-100% more productive
How to wield agentic coding agents
Sep 2 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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August 2025

Bits & Side Tables: How Reference Counting Works in Swift
Deep under the hood of Swift's heap objects
Aug 25 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Swift Concurrency's Biggest Unintuitive Gotchas
Context inheritance, cascading cancellation, interleaving, and Swift 6.2
Aug 19 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Advanced Keyframe Animations in SwiftUI
Total control over your SwiftUI animation
Aug 11 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Performance Analytics
Actionable steps for crowd-sourcing your performance profiles
Aug 5 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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July 2025

My ADHD vs. the AlarmKit API
Under the hood of Apple's latest framework ⏰
Jul 28 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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How to Learn the Swift Source Code
Become an expert at Swift Internals 🛠️
Jul 22 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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High Performance SwiftData Apps
My 3000-word apology for killing my iPhone processor
Jul 14 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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