Jacob's Tech Tavern v3.0
A deal three years in the making
tl;dr for the busy iOS engineer:
💸 Prices go up to $15/month at the end of May.
🔒 All paid members before then keep their lower price.
🧨 Tomorrow’s article is a banger.
I turned 31 today.
You can’t just raise blog pricing every few months like a maniac. You only really get a couple of shots in the chamber. I first did it last May, but Jacob’s Tech Tavern is a much better deal than it was in 2025.
My premium content used to be “Quick Hacks”, just a little something extra for people who wanted to support me. But today my best work is behind the paywall:
📚 Premium members get a full library of 45 paywalled articles (up from 18 last May)
👉 This is 98,000 words of advanced iOS writing (up from 23,000)
Perhaps number of words is a useless vanity metric, like number of commits or lines of code. If you want to talk intangibles, you also get that warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from supporting independent (sometimes funny) writing, and also it’s my birthday.
As one final present (uno reverso), all paid subscribers now get a free copy of my new eBook, “Land your iOS Tech Job”. 🥳
Premium membership goes up to $15/month ($150/year) on May 31.
Anyone who subscribes before then will continue paying less, forever.
Sneak Preview
Tomorrow, premium members will receive my greatest deep-dive yet:
Touch to Pixels: UI Pipeline Internals on iOS
A journey through hardware, backboardd, Core Animation, and the render server
Here’s a little taster of what you can expect:
Upgrade now to lock in my lower price, plus much more:
🌟 Access Elite Hacks, my exclusive advanced content
🚀 Read my free articles a month before anyone else
🧵 Master concurrency with my full course and advanced training
🧑🚀 Get a free copy of my new eBook, “Land your iOS Tech Job”
❤️🩹 Support independent, sometimes funny, tech writing