Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

When To Kill A Project

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

Nov 20 •

2025: The Year SwiftUI Died

Rediscovering my love for the Classic UIKit Stack™

Nov 17 •

Swift Concurrency Training Kata

Master concurrency with 12 real-world challenges

Nov 11 •

The Great Connection Pool Meltdown

A war story from the frontlines at Tuist

Nov 6 •

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Pedro Piñera Buendía

Swift for Android vs. Kotlin Multiplatform

The "Xbox vs. Playstation" of the multiplatform era

Nov 3 •

October 2025

How do researchers reverse-engineer private frameworks?

Own the (private) libs today

Oct 28 •

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

...before I have to get a real job

Oct 21 •

Backend-driven SwiftUI

Spec ultra-flexible UI that updates in seconds, not hours

Oct 20 •

I'm giving away $84,000 in rewards

Come onboard to my ridiculously generous referral program

Oct 15 •

Total Control of Your Camera Using Pixel Buffer APIs

Come for the AVCaptureSession, stay for the Core ML & Metal

Oct 14 •

Make Loading Screens Fun with the SwiftUI Game Engine

Clone flappy bird in ~10 minutes

Oct 6 •

September 2025

How are Actors Implemented in Swift?

They aren't magic, just bloody complicated

Sep 30 •

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