I am back from my vacation. Dubai is a nice city 🌃 Last quarter’s goal is to have fun writing and coding while documenting more of my work

New release of AuralKit! Thanks to @ekurutepe for the custom vocab PR. I want this package to be the easiest way to add voice to text using Apple's native framework. Keeping it iOS 26+ for now to make the most out of SpeechAnalyzer. github.com/rryam/AuralK...

Another surreal sunset that I experienced. The wind at the top of Burj Khalifa, and failing to conquer my fear of heights at 152th floor was worth it.

I am turning 28 this week, so get 28% on all of my books! 🎂 Just use 28 at checkout: academy.rudrank.com

Most cliched birthday with Indian food classics: butter chicken, garlic naan and gulab jamun 😆🤩

Wow

Upgraded my mother to business for her first international flight without telling her, and her expressions are something I will cherish for a lifetime. Money can buy happiness sometimes. 😊

I’m very happy with these StickerApp cuties 🤩 Come say hi and grab one if you’re at @swiftleeds.co.uk next week.

I am turning 28 this week, so get 28% on all of my books! 🎂 Just use 28 at checkout: academy.rudrank.com

Well, #ShipATon was a failure for me and I gave up midway. When I zoom out a bit, I made the most this month. Still peanuts, but gives me a direction that I can go indie if I go relentless

Introducing AuralKit, easily add the new SpeechAnalyzer API with a few lines of code: let session = SpeechSession(locale: .current) for try await result in session.startTranscribing() { print("Final: \(result.text)") } github.com/rryam/AuralKit

Good month. But I am so attached to my work that I need to relax before my vacation day after. Still have an infinite to-do list 🥲

Exploring MLX Swift: Structured Generation with @ Generable Macro rudrank.com/exploring-ml...

I am going to write my coolest blog post of 2025; it has been a while rudrank.com

When you are an iOS developer, every day is Xmas - LLM edition: I didn’t grasp this at first. This is using a third-party LLM, running with Apple’s MLX and using their new system that maps LLM output into Swift structured data. This is how he got that nice UI updating live.

Streaming structured output with MLX Swift Qwen 1.7B but used Generable of Foundation Models framework

List of acceptable use requirements for the Foundation Models framework developer.apple.com/apple-intell...

This year has been filled with lessons. When I was approached to interview for a frontier AI lab, I passed on that opportunity because I did not believe in my iOS dev skills. You got to be your own hypeman

Wrote my *best* chapter on technical writing, sharing the model and prompt I use for structuring my work! academy.rudrank.com/product/tech...

My book on Foundation Models & MLX Swift is out! To celebrate iOS 26 release, get 26% off! 🥂 academy.rudrank.com/product/ai?c...

Sad today because I let a review on my app got through my skin. They called it a ripoff of an app I had not even heard about lol. And some nameless account on the other site telling me how my app has no substance and useless. Nice.

Somebody just bought bundle & also individual books on foundation models & mlx swift & ai-assisted one for almost 200 dollars. I mailed them if that's an error & I got this reply: > Yes, you're correct. That said, let's keep it this way. Thanks a lot for the great work with the books!

My best open-source project, now with updated thumbnails, and ! It explores everything github.com/rudrankriyam...

Foundation models in iOS 26.1 seems faster, especially time to first token Try it out here in Polarixy AI, especialy if you have the latest iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone Air: apps.apple.com/in/app/local...

Flying Emirates is so cool; it has this My Emirates Pass and the discount itself on all the attractions makes up for the flight ticket!!

With foundation models supporting many more languages, I added a specific tab for languages in Foundation Lab! Here is an example of nutritional insights in traditional Chinese! TestFlight link: testflight.apple.com/join/JWR9FpP3

I wonder how do I get folks who bought the book to be aware of the affiliate program? Every affiliate sale is 22% which is a good amount ($14.5 dollars earned on a $66 bundle)

The chart that hurts and benefits me at the same time

After some hours, I am back home 😆 The comfort of bed + blasting music on sound bar is too addictive

Been too unproductive at home lately so I decided to come over to a co-work nearby. It is weird to see so many people after rotting in my room for weeks

I rewrote my foundation models book with direct examples from Zenther! The book now has PDF, EPUB and LLMs text to directly chat with it in your favorite tool. Plus an Xcode project with different examples to play around with. More chapters on way! academy.rudrank.com/product/on-d...

It's been two weeks since I've launched the Swift 6.2 update for Practical Swift Concurrency and folks seem to be enjoying the update a lot. Huge thank you for everybody that's downloaded the book ❤️ https://gumroad.com/l/practical-swift-concurrency

Meshing is out with the gorgeous new icon! 😍 apps.apple.com/in/app/gradi...

Me these days www.youtube.com/shorts/AUvdj...

I wonder how many apps are being designed with tab bars they don't need just because they look so nice with Liquid Glass

Revived my game after 4 years with new icon, Game Center and CMYK support! 😍 Link to it: apps.apple.com/us/app/color...

Now I know why my phone was buzzing with notifications last night 🥹 academy.rudrank.com/product/ai

I wrote about how to easily use Grok 4 Fast for *free* in Xcode AI! And my favorite models (paid & free) in OpenRouter. I have started writing about Xcode AI; 3 chapters right now & more soon. To celebrate its release, use SWIFT-ASSIST for 24% discount! 😊 academy.rudrank.com/product/ai-a...

So happy with the new icon! 😍

Slowly, but will definitely reach there

New icon time 🤩

My motivational widget got a little dark today

I think I want to go for 17 Pro instead of 17 Pro Max with Silver. I really wanted the Air but I want to travel a lot more next year and do not want a battery pack around. The battery of 17 Pro is actually a bit better than 16 Pro Max!

I wrote 4 new chapters on fetching the yearly and monthly Apple Music Replay summary! academy.rudrank.com/product/musi...

The past few months were a bit of bummer but I am glad I persevered. There was this one stretch last week where I got literally 0 book sales and I considered looking for a job. But the last 3 days made more than last month, and I have picked up momentum again!

I started documenting all of my iOS indie dev learnings in a book, going from 0 to matching my previous salary. I will consider that a success to begin with. Idea is to finish it in 2 years and hit that number I have in mind before I turn 30; let's see how that goes

Wrote the *best* chapter in my freelancing book! It is about consulting a startup that was on the front page of the App Store for best apps of iOS 18, and eventually an Apple Design Award finalist! academy.rudrank.com/product/free...

Ironic how I am having so much of chocolate mousse to celebrate and I do not plan to log it in my calorie tracker app 😆

My app Zenther

"This book has allowed me to be what I saw myself as being with Foundation Models. I feel I can legitimately use them expressively now. I needed this." ~Adrian Eves