Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

Bits & Side Tables: How Reference Counting Works in Swift

Deep under the hood of Swift's heap objects

Aug 25 •

Swift Concurrency's Biggest Unintuitive Gotchas

Context inheritance, cascading cancellation, interleaving, and Swift 6.2

Aug 19 •

Advanced Keyframe Animations in SwiftUI

Total control over your SwiftUI animation

Aug 11 •

Performance Analytics

Actionable steps for crowd-sourcing your performance profiles

Aug 5 •

July 2025

My ADHD vs. the AlarmKit API

Under the hood of Apple's latest framework ⏰

Jul 28 •

How to Learn the Swift Source Code

Become an expert at Swift Internals 🛠️

Jul 22 •

High Performance SwiftData Apps

My 3000-word apology for killing my iPhone processor

Jul 14 •

The 1-hour Swift Concurrency course

Understand the toolset from async/await to modern Swift 6.2

Jul 8 •

June 2025

Data: a swift-foundation deep-dive

Understand the optimisations powering this fundamental struct

Jun 30 •

Through the Ages: Apple Concurrency APIs

Play with working code from 1977 to the modern day

Jun 24 •

Real-time systems with Combine and WebSockets

Three real-world examples

Jun 16 •

Customised client-side AI with Apple's CLIP models

Perform Core ML magic, entirely offline

Jun 10 •

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