✍️ New Post ✍️ Thoughts on Xcode's 26.3's agentic coding: - How to get skills working - Use Xcode's MCP with other tools - Impressions Check it out: www.swiftjectivec.com/Agentic-Codi...

🚨 Testers wanted 🚨 I have a huge update to Elite Hoops coming up. It adds user accounts, user sign up, and syncing data. Tons under the hood. I'd love a hand testing the sign in/up flow: testflight.apple.com/join/VUg3a9W6

🚨 Update for The Best-in-Class Book Series 🚨 My ongoing effort to provide quality material for iOS developers since 2021 is now pay what you want! For $10 or more, the series is yours. Details: www.swiftjectivec.com/Best-in-Cla...

✍️ New Post ✍️ My first, true "AI is changing my own personal life, work, etc" post. In short, I think it's a fantastic time to build stuff: www.swiftjectivec.com/The-Shift-U...

When I was but a young lil' pup, these reviews used to *kill* me. But eventually, you become a hardened warrior, undeterred by reviews complaining about charging for your work, or not agreeing with design decisions you made. Keep on rollin' friends, these reviews happen to all of us 🍻

🚨 I'm looking to sell my soccer app, Elite Football Club. It's like Elite Hoops, but for soccer (or football, depending on where you live 😉). Reasons: - I just haven't been able to grow it. - But I also haven't really tried, I learned I dont care about soccer.

Agents are amazing at coding now, no surprise there. One way to use them that I've found valuable is as a tutor, relating new tech stacks to me using familiar parallels from SwiftUI and iOS development.

New year, so this is the only time Alyx will show that I’ve only had two shots of espresso ☕️ Happy New Years everyone!

“Turn [those ads] off right now – they're burning money” – Jordan's marketing agency For this year's Christmas Special, I talked with indie app dev @jordanmorgan10.bsky.social about ads and creative fatigue, seasonality, and finding market fit even without huge marketing budgets.

✍️ New Post ✍️ A month of marketing recap! - The numbers - What I tried - Lessons learned www.swiftjectivec.com/A-Month-of-...

Thank you to MacStories for covering Alyx! What a nice surprise for the day 😃 www.macstories.net/reviews/aly...

If you've been following my month of marketing posts for Elite Hoops, then you've seen that I've been working on a free tool to boost my mailing list. They get a practice plan by dropping an email. That project is live now if you wanna check it out! elitehoopsapp.com/tools/thomp...

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It may have taken a few years, but I stumbled upon the first organic post about Elite Hoops on Reddit. Fun moment for me! www.reddit.com/r/basketbal...

Just a Sketch appreciation post. I use it for every single blog post I make at the 9-5 and my own stuff. A fantastic feeling Mac app.

Real talk - how do you respond to support emails about feature requests you don’t ever plan on doing? I’ve been running into this with Elite Hoops more lately, and I haven’t found the best verbage yet.

This is kinda of how I'm looking at my month of marketing. Hiring an agency really helps, because now someone else is going to handle UGC stuff. I think I'm going to learn into the "Free Tools" type of marketing, since those have done well for me previously.

All I want for Christmas is for Apple to use the promo art they asked for :-(

📈 Month of Marketing 📈 For the next 30 days straight, I am going to close Xcode and focus only on marketing for Elite Hoops. I'll keep an updated, running journal here at this post - which I'll try to update at the end of each day : www.swiftjectivec.com/A-Month-of-...

I'm looking to get back on the conference circuit a bit next year 🎤 At Superwall, we're also looking to sponsor a few as well. So if the combo of a perennially tired dad as a speaker along with Superwall as a sponsor sounds great to you, hit me up!

I just merged tons of community additions to the SwiftUI Backports project. Go update to 1.0.4 today: - A lot of tab bar APIs added - Toolbar additions (so glad someone figured out how to do this, I couldn't) - And more Grab it here: github.com/superwall/i...

✍️ New Post ✍️ Tips on using String(localized:), and what I used to translate Elite Soccer Club to 3 languages in a few days: - Cursor+Claude - String Catalogs - Xcode's (awesome!) on-device model for comment generation - ButterKit - Superwall's paywall translations

✍️ New Post ✍️ My guidelines for creating custom controls: Learnable Memorable Accessible www.swiftjectivec.com/Creating-Cu...

Apple just approved a big update to Alyx ☕️☕️☕️ - Add your own custom drinks - Sync with iCloud - Set your own measurement unit - SNES box art in settings (ofc critical) 👯‍♂️ - Lots more Go snag it! itunes.apple.com/us/app/id64...

I couldn't let the custom Alyx SNES box art go to waste. To the settings footer it goes. #ThankYouForPlaying

I often forget this, but you can use a gradient with .foregroundStyle and SF Symbols. That's how I have the multi-colored one here: ``` Image(systemName: "yourSymbol") .foregroundStyle(Gradient(colors: [.purple, .red, .blue]) ```

✍️ New Post ✍️ A tiny snippet showing how to make interactive snippet shortcuts, like Alyx uses prominently: www.swiftjectivec.com/Create-Inte...

#1 thing I heard was people wanted more direction for choosing a caffeine limit. I think I finally got it right. Ended up writing my own scroll edge effect...effect. Worth it though ✨

I recorded a loom with sunglasses on in two minutes to demo Alyx and somehow ended up at #10 on Product Hunt today. If you'd like to join the indie cause: www.producthunt.com/products/aly...

One dumb idea I had (have?) for Alyx was for a chat room to open up once a day so we could all just vibe and talk about what coffee we are drinking. Definitely a mission-critical feature, I know.

🚨 Alyx is now LIVE 🚨 The silliest way to track caffeine, with all of iOS 26's bells & whistles. Scan stuff with Visual Look Up, use interactive Shortcuts, and tons more. Since I'm terrible at making videos, I had SNES-style box art commissioned for it instead 😄🕹️☕️ itunes.apple.com/us/app/id647...

Tomorrow is the day, Alyx officials launches 🚀 Here's hoping all this hustle this summer was worth it. As a pre-launch final video, on the splash page - you can actually tap and fidget with all of the little tiles 🪀

I have no reviews to put on Alyx's paywall at launch, so.... I made reviews from my own real-world experiences 🤭

One of my favorite lil animations in Alyx is the bobble on the paywall. I never really thought to use .brightness() in animation, but it gives it a nice pop and shine.

🎉 Alyx is approved and is launching Monday 🎉 - Visual Intelligence to scan to log drinks - Interactive widgets - Liquid Glass design-first If any press are looking to cover iOS 26's core features, definitely check out the press kit I made 🙏 alyxcaffeinetracker.com/ios-26/

I added AlarmKit support a day before uploads because if you can't get notified when to have your last sip of caffeine then this app is definitely worthless A

On Upload Eve™️, if you find yourself wanting to use unique dark and light mode icons with Icon Composer, then I hope this blog post finds you well: www.swiftjectivec.com/How-To-Make...

📸 Visual Lookup 2.0 in Alyx 📸 I rebuilt the Visual Lookup integration from the ground up. Now it can recognize most drinks and fetch their caffeine content, it's no longer limited to pre-defined app entities. Here's my test run at Target 🤘

Golly, really happy with how logging caffeine with Foundation Models turned out from a UX perspective. It's so fun I just keep using it even when I don't need it 🤓

In dark mode, Alyx's Liquid Glass icon dons a sleep mask. Because why not. I just feel like it's a thing it should do 💤

In the latest build of Alyx, the closer you get to your caffeine limit the more red the gradient blobs in the UI become 🔺Alyx

🎨 I settled on four themes for launch, and I am proud to announce that Alyx is home to... Cupercinno! California's favorite exclusive color way that I completely made up. It's a crisp dark orange, harkening back to the region's distinct, bold cappuccinos ☕️

☕️ My hall of fame numbies for 2025 in Alyx ☕️ Curious if any of you noobs have me beat???

The feedback from the beta has been great, some really great suggestions. Thank you all so much! Themes coming in the next build later tonight🤘

How about caffeine intake compared to your daily limit expressed as a Github-style chart? Why the heck not! Now live in the beta if you have #iOS26 ☕️ * You can also scrub over it to see each day, which was a lot of fun to get working.

Every indie knows an effective launch starts with Costco Marketing ™️

I wasn't able to find a UI for this sleep analysis for launch, but it's super useful!A If you're on the Alyx beta, check it out in Shortcuts. In fact, there is a lot more you can do in Shortcuts than you can even do in the app itself.

⚡️Log caffeine using Apple Intelligence Not sure how much caffeine something has? Just describe it, put a rough size estimate and done! This was super fun to make, Foundation Models rocks.

✍️ New Post ✍️ A short ode to `OpenIntent` in iOS 26: www.swiftjectivec.com/Open-Intent...