Jacob’s Tech Tavern

iOS System Design interviews in 2026

Practical prep advice based on three real-world interviews

Mar 3 • Jacob Bartlett

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February 2026

The Most Complicated System I Ever Worked On

A ludicrously elaborate pipeline of webscraping, parsing, persistence, processing, and polling

Feb 17 • Jacob Bartlett

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Agentic AI Engineering Workflows for iOS in 2026

Cargo cutting the creator of Claude Code

Feb 9 • Jacob Bartlett

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My (deeply stressful) big tech interview grind

A survival guide for the tech job market in 2026

Feb 3 • Jacob Bartlett

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January 2026

Xcode Organizer: Your Performance Cheat Sheet

Instruments, but crowdsourced

Jan 20 • Jacob Bartlett

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How to design an SDK to handle $10bn in transactions

A deep-dive into SDK design (feat. RevenueCat)

Jan 12

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10 techniques to pass 90% of algorithmic interviews

Learnings from my long-overdue LeetCode grind

Jan 6 • Jacob Bartlett

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December 2025

🎄 I just gifted you 14 days' membership

Thanks for being a paid member 🎁

Dec 19, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

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

isKnownUniquelyReferenced through the standard library, compiler, and runtime

Dec 15, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

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Ancient Secrets of the Objective-C Runtime

Applied ObjC for modern Swift apps

Dec 9, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

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Method Dispatch in Swift: The Complete Guide

How does Swift *really* execute function calls?

Dec 1, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

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November 2025

Inside Meta’s “iOS System Design” Interview

Double your salary on the inside track

Nov 25, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

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