Might be more server side adjacent but I wrote this paul-samuels.com/blog/2025/08...

The only Xcode refactoring tool I actually use? Explaining regex - no sketchy web tools required.

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I had a similar issue years ago - if I used AirPods Max when developing the audio bitrate was as if it was a cheap Bluetooth headset for phone calls. Got no help when reached out to Apple (disappointing as it was a brand new M1 and their flagship headphones). Solution was just use phone for music

I wrote a post on turning CI logs into actions

The general idea is to wrap your existing build scripts with a tool that can parse the logs for specific JSON payloads and then perform actions like comment on GitHub PRs, ping slack channels etc.

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#swift

I wrote a post on self hosting a Vapor app on a Raspberry Pi

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#swift #vapor

I wrote a post on a crafty little retain cycle in Swift, finding it and breaking it

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#swift

I wrote a post on my experience of using Kotlin Symbol Processing in various ways over multiple years.
I cover how I like to structure my code and give example use cases for how we utilise KSP in our projects.

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#kotlin #ksp

This is the current sweet spot we use it for. We have several bits of sharing like backend code generated for JVM and JS so we can run in webviews on the clients and native JVM in the backend. We also share types/serialisation between backend, Android and iOS to create a compile time contract

It’s situational but I work on a team ~10 iOS ~10 Android and we all work on our core platform and backends so tooling keep things consistent and avoiding pointless discussions on PRs or people causing churn reformatting stuff constantly is worth not having my own personal style

Here's a post on making sure your SwiftTesting parameterised tests show up in the test navigator with nice names using `CustomTestStringConvertible`

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#swifttesting #swift

I wrote a post on "Building Complex Things" talking about virtualising macOS machines for iOS CI paul-samuels.com/blog/2025/03...
#iOS #macOS

It generates library files with ObjC interfaces that you can import into Swift. They are currently working towards native swift interop I believe. There are also libraries that help bridge things like coroutines to async/await and flows to AsyncSequences etc

“Best” is very situational in what you need and how your team is structured. We have had really good success with Kotlin Multiplatform - all our Android devs obviously know Kotlin and Swift/Kotlin are syntactically pretty similar and have fairly equal language features.