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The Complete Guide to tvOS App Icons and Top Shelf Images

The Complete Guide to tvOS App Icons and Top Shelf Images

Debugging Video Corruption After FFmpeg Compression

Debugging Video Corruption After FFmpeg Compression

What Developers Must Do Before iOS 27 Ships

What Developers Must Do Before iOS 27 Ships

A Strange Bug Caused by SwiftUI + macOS 26

Debugging a bizarre crash where a menu-bar-only SwiftUI app silently dies on macOS 26 — no crash log, no Sentry report — and how to fix it

Adding a New Xcode Target? Don't Forget These Two Files

When adding a new Xcode target, forgetting Localizable.xcstrings and InfoPlist.xcstrings leads to missing localizations and broken UI text. Here's how to avoid it.

FOMO Is the Cyberpsychosis of the AI Era

FOMO Is the Cyberpsychosis of the AI Era

Don’t Build on Giants Without a Moat

Warnings and reflections on building products around various tech giants and major AI companies.

I created OrbitTrigger to help with my daily work.

Introducing my newly created macOS app, OrbitTrigger, and how it is transforming my daily workflow.

Energy Allocation in the AI Era

Time is becoming increasingly scarce.

My thoughts about ClawdBot

Some reflections on using ClawdBot.

My Cyberpunk style dashboard.

A brief introduction to my new dashboard.

Opening the Multiverse for AI: The Real Value of Git Worktree

Why Git worktree is useful in AI coding

Thoughts on the Current State of MCP

Some thoughts about MCP

Adding a New Target? Don’t Forget These Two Files

Some tips for localization when add a new target in Xcode

Fix Xcode SPM fetch failed

How to fix Xcode update and fetch swift package error

Second Year of 'Ship-a-ton'

Reflections on participating in RevenueCat's hackathon for the second year

AI Coding Might Harm Your Ability to Code

Some thoughts on 'vibe coding' and how it affects my coding skills.

How to Use Custom LLM Assistants in Xcode 26

A quick exploration of connecting custom models to Xcode 26

How to create app icon for new Apple System

It's about how to create new styled icon for iOS 26 / macOS 26

Debug with Playground in Xcode 26

Xcode 26

Glance of Apple foundation model

This is an article about the first impression of Apple foundation model.

Make SwiftUI great again, on Neovim

Make SwiftUI great again, on Neovim

SFSafeSymbols: Type-Safe Access to Apple’s SF Symbols in Swift

About how to hide bottom bar in SwiftUI

Black Mirror and the Subscription Trap: Where Tech, Capital, and Ethics Collide

Black Mirror and the Subscription Trap: Where Tech, Capital, and Ethics Collide

Make a colorful menubar for macOS APP

Make a colorful menubar for macOS APP

My ASO Learning Journey

My ASO Learning Journey

Start a New Adventure with OrbitRing!

Start a New Adventure with OrbitRing!

Preventing Sentry from Reporting SwiftUI Preview Errors

Preventing Sentry from Reporting SwiftUI Preview Errors

Upload DSYM to Sentry with Xcode Cloud

Upload DSYM to Sentry with Xcode Cloud

My keyword for 2024: Freedom

My keyword for 2024: Freedom

Time to say goodbye to RevenueCat

Time to say goodbye to RevenueCat

How to avoid translating certain strings in SwiftUI

Additional way to localize you app in right way.

How to localize the strings as parameter in SwiftUI

Localize all the strings in you project.

Tools I used for icon management.

Introduce a greet tool - Nucleo.

Hide bottom bar in SwiftUI

About how to hide bottom bar in SwiftUI

Create a nice dashboard for my homeLab

This is an article about how I made a nice and feature rich dashboard for my homelab.

How I config my Neovim with LazyVim

Why I config my Neovim with LazyVim

How to localize your App name in a modern way

Xcode 15 created project have something diffierent to localize your App, especially App name.

The way SwiftUI handles external scheme redirects.

SwiftUI handle Oauth callback.

iOS Moya Implementing OAuth 2.0 Requests

Updated to work with Alamofire 5 and Catalyst

How to Improve Cursor Movement Smoothness in macOS Terminal

When using NeoVim to write code in both Linux and macOS, it's evident that there is a slight lag when continuously moving the cursor using h/j/k/l in the macOS terminal.

Adding Settings Panel to macOS App with SwiftUI

In traditional AppKit development, adding a common "Preferences" settings panel to a macOS app requires several steps, including adding a MenuItem and creating a new Window, often requiring navigation between code and Storyboard.