Archive - Jacob’s Tech Tavern

My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar

An adorable side project featuring SwiftUI, MapKit, and open-source APIs

Nov 27, 2023 • Jacob Bartlett

Apple is Killing Swift

A great language strangled by governance

Oct 21, 2024 • Jacob Bartlett

The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159`

An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts

Feb 19, 2024 • Jacob Bartlett

Impress at Job Interviews by Inspecting their App Bundle

Techniques Apple doesn’t want you to know

Aug 19, 2024 • Jacob Bartlett

How I Got Exploited At My First Startup

11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell

Apr 7, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

The 1-hour Swift Concurrency course

Understand the toolset from async/await to modern Swift 6.2

Jul 8, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

Oh Sh*t, My App is Successful and I Didn’t Think About Accessibility

Speedrunning A11y in SwiftUI

Mar 18, 2024 • Jacob Bartlett

My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar

An adorable set of release notes

Jan 22, 2024 • Jacob Bartlett

The Secret to Intuitively Understanding Swift Concurrency

One core concept that brings clarity to everything

Apr 15, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

SwiftUI Scroll Performance: The 120FPS Challenge

Squeezing high performance from the magic

May 5, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

2025: The Year SwiftUI Died

Rediscovering my love for the Classic UIKit Stack™

Nov 17, 2025 • Jacob Bartlett

Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture

Learn how CPUs work, and discover Apple’s underrated competitive advantage.

Oct 30, 2023 • Jacob Bartlett

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