Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

My Secret Plot to Kill SwiftUI

A playbook for returning to normalcy

Jun 1 • Jacob Bartlett

May 2026

Reliable Data Uploading on iOS

4 levels of confidence: simplicity, resilience, continuity, and durability

May 20 • Jacob Bartlett

Touch to Pixels: UI Pipeline Internals on iOS

A journey through hardware, backboardd, Core Animation, and the render server

May 13 • Jacob Bartlett

Jacob's Tech Tavern v3.0

A deal three years in the making

May 12 • Jacob Bartlett

The 3 Levels of Swift Concurrency

The tiers of Swift 6.2 approachable concurrency

May 6 • Jacob Bartlett

April 2026

URLSession to Electrons: How Networking works on iOS

A theoretical deep-dive into how the internet happens via your iPhone

Apr 28 • Jacob Bartlett

My agentic engineering workflow at an AI unicorn 🦄

Shipping fast at the cutting edge

Apr 21 • Jacob Bartlett

The 7 Deadly Sins of Cargo Culting

How (not) to turn your startup into the next FAANG

Apr 14 • Jacob Bartlett

Survive the AI tech hiring winter ⛄️

A comprehensive new eBook to get you through the grind 📚

Apr 6 • Jacob Bartlett

March 2026

Oh sh*t, I have an "iOS coding" interview and don't know what to practice

A handy survival guide: drill, baby, drill!

Mar 31 • Jacob Bartlett

The SwiftUI Design System War: Composition vs Progressive Disclosure

My most controversial high-conviction opinion

Mar 17 • Jacob Bartlett

Is SwiftUI finally as fast as UIKit in iOS 26?

A scientific performance comparison. The final word.

Mar 9 • Jacob Bartlett

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