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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi, I'm Majid. I’m an indie developer building apps for iOS, watchOS, visionOS, and all other Apple platforms.

I mostly build health-related apps like CardioBot, allowing you to understand and improve heart metrics.

I try to share my experiences by writing blog posts.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 4h

To be honest nothing special here. Why someone may need to use jj and git simultaneously on the local machine? Just keep in mind that jj works in detached head.

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Aaron Christiansen @aaronc.cc · 6d

Having a play with Jujutsu VCS: jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

You can move back to a previous commit and edit it, and all the later commits rebase automatically… coming from Git, that feels MAGIC

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 9h

What do you mean by "it might work"? I use jj daily with a git repo and don't have any problems yet.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 16h

Streaming transforms how we interact with Foundation Models, shifting from static responses to dynamic, real-time experiences. By leveraging the streamResponse API, we can progressively display model output as it’s generated.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/10/08/b...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve already discussed the fundamental concepts of Foundation Models and their structured outputs. This week, we’ll delve into the process of streaming the partial results generated by the model.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/10/08/b...

Building AI features using Foundation Models. Streaming.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 2d

The Observations type conforms to the AsyncSequence protocol, allowing us to use instances inside asynchronous for-loops. The closure that initializes the Observations instance implicitly observes all touched properties of observable instances.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/07/30/s...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 3d

Almost every feature I’m working on has a feature flag for enabling it in debug and TestFlight builds. Since I merge branches even when the feature isn’t fully implemented, I use feature flags to temporarily disable them.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/09/16/f...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 4d

The bottom sheet API in SwiftUI is simple. Attach the presentationDetents view modifier to the sheet’s content. You pass an array of available sizes, allowing users to resize the sheet by dragging.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/07/19/b...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 7d

Assume you have a throwing function that might throw an error in a specific case and want to test that behavior. The expect macro allows you to verify the function’s throwing behavior and inspect the error to confirm it’s the desired error case.
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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 8d

There is a special NavigationStack initializer accepting a binding to a mutable collection. SwiftUI maps values of the mutable collection into a view hierarchy and allows us to push and pop views into the NavigationStack programmatically.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/06/21/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 9d

SwiftUI introduced APIs, allowing us to recompose complex view hierarchies, including sections. Similarly to the subviews parameter, SwiftUI defines another overload on the ForEach type, allowing us to enumerate sections.
swiftwithmajid.com/2024/10/01/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 10d

Definitely

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 10d

And visionOS.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 10d

You can always check whenever the platform you are running supports multiple window environments using the supportsMultipleWindows environment value.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/11/02/w...

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 11d

SwiftUI introduced the ScrollGeometry type with the onScrollGeometryChange view modifier to accurately read content offset. It provides properties like content offset, bounds, container size, visible rectangle, content insets, and content size.
swiftwithmajid.com/2024/06/25/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 14d

The searchFocused view modifier binds the focus of a search field created with the searchable view modifier. It functions like the focused view modifier, but only affects the text field in the current view hierarchy’s search bar.
swiftwithmajid.com/2021/08/24/m...

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 15d

Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️

forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

Introducing Swift Configuration

Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 16d

Coding agents are gaining popularity, but UI and unit tests have become even more powerful. Whenever agents make changes to a UI feature, I request that they run UI tests to ensure that everything functions as intended.
swiftwithmajid.com/2021/03/18/u...

UI Testing in Swift with XCTest framework

I’m not going to talk about the importance of testing in general, but I want to talk about UI testing. One obvious benefit of UI testing over Unit Testing is the opportunity to write UI tests even…

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 17d

My favorite thing about Jujutsu VCS is the absorb command. It move changes from a source revision into its mutable ancestors: splits by file paths & last edits. It uses blame to find suitable changes.
jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/cl...

CLI reference - Jujutsu docs

Warning

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 17d

Swift Charts framework allows us to select a single value and a range of values. We can use chartXSelection and chartYSelection with the binding of ClosedRange type to allow range selection.
swiftwithmajid.com/2023/07/18/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 17d

Another excellent article on using Jujutsu VCS with existing Git repositories.
blog.nshephard.dev/posts/jujutsu/

Version Control with Jujutsu – blog.nshephard.dev

Neil Shephard

blog.nshephard.dev

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vhyrro @vhyrro.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'll never stop yapping out the jujutsu VCS. It's such a good tool and has entirely replaced Git for me, tbh. Even for the most simple of operations I find jj to be much more ergonomic. You also get the op log for free! :D

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been using Jujutsu for all my projects for almost a week now. I genuinely prefer its workflows over Git, especially the Edit workflow. It feels more intuitive for my trunk-based development approach.
steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto...

The Edit Workflow - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial

While I like the previous workflow, some people just don't. They use a workflow that adds a different command, jj edit, along with a second new command, jj next, as well as a new flag to jj new. Lots…

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 20d

It is definitely adds to mental complexity, but I’m not sure if there is an easier way of handling this case.

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 21d

It looks like this.

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