Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

The new core skills: agentic engineering at Granola

My (winning!) submission for the Pragmatic Engineer essay contest

Oct 28 • Jacob Bartlett

Building apps is a system design exercise

Working in the modern abstraction level

Oct 22 • Jacob Bartlett

I’m Giving Away Over $160k of Rewards 💸

The Tech Tavern October referral contest

Oct 15 • Jacob Bartlett

Background work in iOS

...and how iOS 26 made it better

Oct 14 • Jacob Bartlett

Maths, Metal, Mandelbrot, and SwiftUI

Heavy metal mathematics on the GPU (in 10 easy steps)

Oct 7 • Jacob Bartlett

September 2026

NFC, BLE, UWB, WTF?!

How iOS talks to your hardware

Sep 30 • Jacob Bartlett

Who needs AI psychosis?! I gave myself VR psychosis 🤠

Shipping production videogames from the pub

Sep 23 • Jacob Bartlett

Forbidden iOS 👹

7 more things Apple doesn't want you to know

Sep 16 • Jacob Bartlett

App Size 101: Drop 40% in an afternoon

Fix the 5 most common low-hanging fruit

Sep 9 • Jacob Bartlett

Advanced Agentic Engineering

Techniques developed while running several parallel agents every day

Sep 2 • Jacob Bartlett

August 2026

Apple Watch brings distributed system headaches to your app

“My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Him a Distributed System”

Aug 19 • Jacob Bartlett

The Hardest Problems in Mobile Engineering.

10 reasons why your life sucks

Aug 11 • Jacob Bartlett

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