If you’re a longtime reader, you might have cottoned on to my recent Canva addiction.
In my quest to become literally the most annoying tech blogger ever, I naturally try to share my content far and wide, including to my work colleagues (yes, I am that guy).
This is how I stumbled upon this technique. Born out of frustration: our app’s chat feature did not support hyperlinks. How would my colleagues finally recognise my genius if they could only gawp at my plaintext URLs?
At a fast-paced startup, often the easiest way to get things done is to just do them, then ask to merge & ship your POC. Fortunately, it turns out it’s pretty straightforward to build great-looking hyperlink support on the client-side, so I did exactly that.
I upgraded my chat app from Secret SwiftUI to support link detection, link tap events, Link Presentation link previews, and metadata pre-warming.
The best part? It’s so simple, you can pretty much implement this on your lunch break, unless you’re French.
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