Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

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Dec 19 • Jacob Bartlett

Copy-on-write teaches you EVERYTHING about Swift Internals 🐮

isKnownUniquelyReferenced through the standard library, compiler, and runtime

Dec 15 • Jacob Bartlett

Ancient Secrets of the Objective-C Runtime

Applied ObjC for modern Swift apps

Dec 9 • Jacob Bartlett

Method Dispatch in Swift: The Complete Guide

How does Swift *really* execute function calls?

Dec 1 • Jacob Bartlett

November 2025

Inside Meta’s “iOS System Design” Interview

Double your salary on the inside track

Nov 25 • Jacob Bartlett

When To Kill A Project

Dave Verwer's lessons from 30 years of failures (and some successes!)

Nov 20 • Jacob Bartlett

2025: The Year SwiftUI Died

Rediscovering my love for the Classic UIKit Stack™

Nov 17 • Jacob Bartlett

Swift Concurrency Training Kata

Master concurrency with 12 real-world challenges

Nov 11 • Jacob Bartlett

The Great Connection Pool Meltdown

A war story from the frontlines at Tuist

Nov 6 • Jacob Bartlett and Pedro Piñera Buendía

Swift for Android vs. Kotlin Multiplatform

The "Xbox vs. Playstation" of the multiplatform era

Nov 3 • Jacob Bartlett

October 2025

How do researchers reverse-engineer private frameworks?

Own the (private) libs today

Oct 28 • Jacob Bartlett

My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator

...before I have to get a real job

Oct 21 • Jacob Bartlett

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