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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 2d

Tech layers are fluid. Abstractions like Fastlane or generated projects filled gaps, but as layers evolve, some become unnecessary.

At Tuist, automation is LLMs + bash now. We're moving to vanilla Xcode as things mature. GitHub's "runs-on" signaled a similar shift.

Balance sales with product.

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

At Tuist, we abstract only as a last resort. We stay close to Apple's approach—when solutions emerge at the right layer, we integrate and extend rather than abstract.

That's why we're excited about caching capabilities emerging at the right layer, though not yet as robust as module-based caching. 🚀

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things that helps us make Tuist better every day is dog-fooding our own work. We just enabled the Xcode cache in Tuist itself: https://github.com/tuist...

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

Our new marketing site is live! 🎉

We're looking for translators to help make Tuist accessible to developers worldwide. Need help with Korean, Japanese, and many other languages.

Want to contribute? Join us:
https://translate.tuist....

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

New post: Thin Environment Layers for an Agentic Future

As AI agents join our workflow, we need infrastructure that works everywhere—not just CI. Keep your environment layer thin & portable.

Mise for provisioning, environment-agnostic caching, better telemetry.

https://pepicrft.me/thin...

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t take off my head Supabase’s model of we manage a Postgres instance for you as a model that would be amazing in the world of build systems with cache capabilities.

We manage a cache and remote server for you in the regions of your choice.

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 3d

I want to like #Weblate, but the experience of resolving Git conflicts on repositories is such a headache… 🤕

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 4d

Apple is building the foundation, and we are building the environment-agnostic infrastructure that not only gives the foundation superpowers but gives teams the agency to take back control over where their workflows should run. https://pepicrft.me/cach...

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 4d

I can't stop watching this video of Marek setting up cache in an Xcode project 🤯

Absurdly simple. A few commands. Up to 30% build time improvements across any environment.

This is what great developer tools should feel like.

https://videos.tuist.dev...

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 4d

Apple is building the foundation for Bazel-like caching by solving derived data issues.

At Tuist, we're taking it further: low-latency caching deployed close to your developers

As AI agents write more code, fast builds become infrastructure. That's why Xcode Cache is now FREE for any Xcode project

Tuist @tuist.dev · 4d

Cut your build times in a couple of minutes with the Tuist remote cache now working with any Xcode project 🎉

tuist.dev/blog/2025/10...

Speed up your builds with the remote Tuist cache for Xcode

Learn how to use the new Xcode compilation cache with Tuist to cut build times in local and CI environments

tuist.dev

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 4d

Join us later today for our 4th community call of 2025! 🎉

We've got a couple of "One more things" to share with the Swift community.

See you there! 👋
https://luma.com/ewde50eg

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 5d

Building Tuist's new marketing site reminded me why I'm skeptical of utility classes.

Yes, jumping between HTML & CSS files is friction. But reading endless utility classes is its own hell.

CSS variables + nested CSS > any abstraction that hides the platform.

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Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 5d

Learning to sell to developers as first-time founders meant unlearning the playbook.

Cold outreach and ads don't work. We had awareness. What works is openness and technical depth.

Rebuilding our site with interactive content. Thanks @planetscale for the inspiration.

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 5d

Running a small company does weird things to your brain.

I'll be in flow with writing and sales. Then try to code and... nothing.

The fluidity for sales prevents depth for technical work.

Stopped fighting it. Some days fluid, others deep. Both amazing, just not same day.

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 5d

This venture math post is so on point for Tuist. VCs rely on ARR multiples that reward fast revenue, missing companies where it's slow but steady. Backwards-looking metrics fail to capture long-term potential.

https://credistick.com/v...

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 8d

Something like this would be so much better for MCPs. You could pull them into any environment, for example an iOS app, and safely run them with Wasmtime. I really dislike that I can’t use MCPs on Claude and ChatGPT (iOS)

github.com/wasmcp/wasmcp

GitHub - wasmcp/wasmcp: Build MCP servers with composable WebAssembly components

Build MCP servers with composable WebAssembly components - wasmcp/wasmcp

github.com

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 8d

Translation web-based tools should allow developers to extend the segmentation logic to incorporate custom rules.

Pedro Piñera @pepicrft.bsky.social · 8d

AI and the Craft of Building Products
pepicrft.me/ai-and-the-c...