Jacob Bartlett 🍺

Indie creator log day 13/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$636. I can proudly announce I have achieved minimum wage 🎉 If I can release a banger like this every week we might be getting somewhere. Spent the day rushing to finish my Kotlin Multiplatform

concurrency course as a new pillar in why someone should become a paid subscriber. Think like a game where each level is an increasingly difficult puzzle that you have to solve with a different tool, or combination of tools, in Swift Concurrency. With my full focus this week, I'm aiming to get it

Indie creator log day 13/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$636. I can proudly announce I have achieved minimum wage 🎉 If I can release a banger like this every week we might be getting somewhere. Spent the day rushing to finish my Kotlin Multiplatform

Thanks a ton to to Alex Bush and Pierluigi Cifani 🙏 I have an interview with a very legendary figure in the iOS community tomorrow, so I spent the rest of the day prepping the various questions I want to ask. With the rest of the day, I actually managed to get a gym session in which is

Indie creator log day 13/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$636. I can proudly announce I have achieved minimum wage 🎉 If I can release a banger like this every week we might be getting somewhere. Spent the day rushing to finish my Kotlin Multiplatform

It's the "Xbox vs. Playstation" of the multiplatform era. Swift for Android has arisen to challenge the dominance of Kotlin Multiplatform. The prize? The hearts and souls of native mobile engineers everywhere.

SwiftUI is like magic. But, like all well-designed magic systems, it comes with a cost. What, you thought that beautiful declarative syntax and automatic data bindings come free? Think again.

SwiftUI can run into very painful performance problems when dealing with infinite scrolling feeds. Today, we will investigate these performance problems, understand why they happen, and explore techniques to mitigate them, making your SwiftUI performance buttery smooth 🧈.

SwiftUI is like magic. But, like all well-designed magic systems, it comes with a cost. What, you thought that beautiful declarative syntax and automatic data bindings come free? Think again.

The 120FPS SwiftUI challenge: Pushing LazyVStack with dynamic sizing Let’s take a look at dynamically-sized cells. Because LazyVStack sizing and layout computations are performed on-demand, we are trading off some accuracy to get this performance.

If you programmatically scroll to a specific cell way off-screen, SwiftUI suddenly has to run all this layout computation, causing a big performance hit. With dynamically-sized cells, we see a visible degradation in performance, with several dropped frames.

The 120FPS SwiftUI challenge: Pushing LazyVStack with dynamic sizing Let’s take a look at dynamically-sized cells. Because LazyVStack sizing and layout computations are performed on-demand, we are trading off some accuracy to get this performance.

Advanced Swift tips: Argument Attributes It's not every day a meme gives you imposter syndrome, but this showed me I knew nothing about argument attributes. To fix this knowledge gap, I built an app implementing a function using @escaping @Sendable @MainActor @autoclosure

Indie creator log day 10/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$455 🚀 this is the first day since I started where the ARR growth is actually on-plan, so I’m gonna have a beer to celebrate. Uuhh I was super busy writing so forgot to do this as I went along.

I spent all day writing "Swift for Android vs Kotlin Multiplatform". Coming Monday. Also fixed some boring tracking stuff with my ads. Annoyingly, after a great first day, the Meta algo ate 98% of my ad spend on the Apple Notes ad with zero extra results. Turned the f*cker off. I really need

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering

It's just the subscribe button that I'm trying to track was being ignored in favour of the subscribe quick link that is added to the bottom of the page by default. Thanks Beehiv! I cannot believe you didn't test this once. It's not fun to debug this. It's not like coding, it's like… a sh*t version

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering

growth engine of about $1 per signup. Remember to tip your marketing guy because it is incredibly annoying to set up this tracking and attribution. It's so fiddly, I mean, I'm sort of already quite good at it because every time it broke, the marketing people would always make it my problem.

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering

very profitable engine where I reinvest revenue into inorganic growth, and Surprisingly good results with my Apple-Notes-style ad, so will keep that one running. Re-made the carousel with my thumbnails, mostly because I’m very attached to it. My “Apple is Killing Swift” creative is still

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering

I make for my work because it's pretty obvious that if I post an article about this ASAP, it'll probably make me some money. If you want me to save you the time, don't do it. It took me forever to get my head around the weird broken bridging so I didn’t get a chance to self-flaggelate via leetcode

Swift 6 and iOS 18 introduce the Synchronization framework, containing two new low-level concurrency primitives — Mutex and Atomics.  These features could only be introduced with Swift 6 because they are implemented using the brand-new generic ownership mechanics. I tested them out and

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering I

It's just the subscribe button that I'm trying to track was being ignored in favour of the subscribe quick link that is added to the bottom of the page by default. Thanks Beehiv! I cannot believe you didn't test this once. It's not fun to debug this. It's not like coding, it's like… a sh*t version

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering I

growth engine of about $1 per signup. Remember to tip your marketing guy because it is incredibly annoying to set up this tracking and attribution. It's so fiddly, I mean, I'm sort of already quite good at it because every time it broke, the marketing people would always make it my problem.

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering I

very profitable engine where I reinvest revenue into inorganic growth, and Surprisingly good results with my Apple-Notes-style ad, so will keep that one running. Re-made the carousel with my thumbnails, mostly because I’m very attached to it. My “Apple is Killing Swift” creative is still

Indie creator log day 9/100 (before my wife makes me get a real job) ARR growth: +$142, despite getting 4 new paid subs in the last 24 hours. Make it make sense! I spent quite a lot of my day smashing my head against Kotlin Multiplatform and Swift for Android. This is the sort of suffering I

make for my work because it's pretty obvious that if I post an article about this ASAP, it'll probably make me some money. If you want me to save you the time, don't do it. It took me forever to get my head around the weird broken bridging so I didn’t get a chance to self-flaggelate via leetcode