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Claude Code has made me 50-100% more productive
How to wield agentic coding agents
Sep 2 • 
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Swift Concurrency's Biggest Unintuitive Gotchas
Context inheritance, cascading cancellation, interleaving, and Swift 6.2
Aug 19 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Performance Analytics
Actionable steps for crowd-sourcing your performance profiles
Aug 5 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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How to Learn the Swift Source Code
Become an expert at Swift Internals 🛠️
Jul 22 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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The 1-hour Swift Concurrency course
Understand the toolset from async/await to modern Swift 6.2
Jul 8 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Through the Ages: Apple Concurrency APIs
Play with working code from 1977 to the modern day
Jun 24 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Customised client-side AI with Apple's CLIP models
Perform Core ML magic, entirely offline
Jun 10 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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The Swift Apple doesn't want you to know
Forbidden functions, deranged keywords, and plain weird syntax
May 27 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Apple Tried To Kill My Startup
How I defeated Apple by invoking their greatest fear
May 13 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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SwiftUI Map is RIDICULOUSLY Powerful
A quick guide to this shockingly versatile API
Apr 29 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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The Secret to Intuitively Understanding Swift Concurrency
One core concept that brings clarity to everything
Apr 15 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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Tasks vs Threads
Low-level process management never changes.
Apr 1 • 
Jacob Bartlett
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