Learning and sharing at Hacking with Swift. Creator of Kickstart, Unwrap, Ignite, and two small children.
Bath, UK
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My new Mac app is out today! It's called Kickstart, and it has just one job: helping indie app developers make more money on the App Store. It is *packed* with features, many of which are completely free. Get it here: apps.apple.com/app/kickstart…
The Hacktivate update for iPhone Duo is out! Just in time for release 🙂 It looks *fantastic* on the unfolded screen – lots of space to solve the challenges. Making it work folded took some careful thinking, but I'm really happy with the result 👌 apps.apple.com/app/hacktivat…
ALT Hack the Planet: Solve 240 cybersecurity challenges with real skills.
For HWS+ subscribers: Swift Argument Parser makes it easy to build useful macOS command-line tools, and a JSON tidier is a great first project. This one can prettify, compress, sort keys, and write output to a file, all in surprisingly little code. hackingwithswift.com/plus/co…
Bad news and good news about Kickstart Exchange and Kickstart Signal:
- Good news: It's really popular! I'm glad it's helping so many indie developers.
- Bad news: It's so popular I need to move it to a newer, bigger server. This means a few hours of downtime. Apologies!
Use @Attribute(.externalStorage) to hint to SwiftData that large data like images should live outside the main store. It handles everything transparently, just don't try using those properties in predicates. hackingwithswift.com/quick-s…
I just used a Claude banked reset, and… it doesn't change my main reset date? YES. That's exactly how it ought to be – a bonus, not just a date adjustment. I only wish Codex did the same. /cc @thsottiaux
In two hours I'm running an online workshop on building apps with AI. It's going to be *packed* – coding, yes, but also research, design, marketing, and more. Free to all Hacking with Swift+ subscribers, even if you sign up today! hackingwithswift.com/plus
Wow, I totally missed that over 400 apps are now using Kickstart Exchange! 🤯 It's a completely free advertising network for indie app developers, making it an incredibly effective way to find new users. exchange.kickstart.tools
Bonus: Signing up for Kickstart Exchange also gives you Kickstart Signal (and vice versa!) – Signal lets you collect user requests right inside your app. Both are completely free, both are privacy-focused, and both use the same open-source SDK ✅ signal.kickstart.tools
In case Pokémon is your thing, the special edition Beats × Pokémon collab just went up on the Apple store: apple.com/shop/product/mkfn4…
Designed in California. Available in January. #iPhoneDuo
ALT A sad child, with the text "No, you can't have a Duo." In the corner is a picture of the iPhone Duo, saying "Not yours".
SwiftUI's Text view can format arrays, measurements, and currencies directly using the format parameter - no custom formatter needed. hackingwithswift.com/quick-s…
Preordering an iPhone Duo today? Remember: use the Apple Store app on your phone! Almost always it comes up faster than the web store, and could be the difference between you getting one soon and not – it will sell out fast, guaranteed!
ALT An iPhone Duo partly opened.
Tickets for @iOSConfSG are on sale now, with a startlingly low price – $60 SGD is just $47 USD / €42 / £35 😳 Their goal: a ticket price so low everyone can afford to come. Maybe see you there? 👀
S$60. Not a typo. 🎟️
iOS Conf SG 2027 tickets are on sale. Foundation Models, App Intents, AI agents in Xcode and plenty of Swift. 20–22 Jan, Singapore.
The whole region is invited for Swift, coffee and friendship 🧡
iosconf.sg/#tickets
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Today we also published benchmarks and a deep dive into LLM inference on M5 Ultra Mac Studio, covering MLX, GPU Neural Accelerators, tensor and pipeline parallelism, and Thunderbolt 5 RDMA.
machinelearning.apple.com/re…
Muse Spark Open -- weights releasing today -- runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple.
