The following article explains why some SwiftUI modifiers hold on to memory longer than you expect:
https://livsycode.com/swiftui/when-swiftui-modifiers-hold-onto-memory-longer-than-expected/
Got most of account deletion updated to clear out the new datastores. Tomorrow night, let's continue down the list. See you then!
đ Tomorrowâs stream: https://youtube.com/live/O16SLkVVblE
âŽď¸ Playlist so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRxjf93xotuofCtaxtGOcWeuxVZYJyY-m
đ˛ Download Jiiiii: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6472801548?pt=14724&ct=MastodonCCStreams&mt=8
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Okay so the calendar wasn't cutting it. Time to check the App Store for birthday reminder apps đ
There are a bunch of them. And I tried a few. But something always felt off đ
The most obvious thing? The design. None of them looked like they belonged on my iPhone. Too many custom UI choices that felt dated or just... off.
I wanted something that feels like a native Apple app. Something (1/2)
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I'm making a seasonal anime guide app, in the open for all to experience and learn from.
Let's start updating all the code to support lists everywhere!
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Come chill with me: https://youtube.com/live/_dTjKfz22Hc
Learn how AsyncSequence helps Swift 6 developers build real-time AI chat interfaces with safe, smooth token streaming in SwiftUI. https://hackernoon.com/how-asyncsequence-makes-swift-ai-apps-feel-instant #swiftui
Building your own CMS is the best way to understand the full stack. CTSiteBuilder is a macOS app using SQLiteData, CloudKit, and SwiftUI to manage content and deploy a static site via rsync â with Markdown support included.
đ: https://www.createchsol.com/blog/2026-04-20-building-my-own-static-website-builder.html by Stewart Lynch (@StewartLynch)
Plus a new landing page for the app at: https://armengrewal.github.io/pyxis/
And finally, here is v3.5: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pyxis-notes-locations/id6639617144
Pyxis v3.5 is now out! Lots of improvements and features:
- Dedicated task lists for each saved location. Adds a new productivity related dimension to the app.
- Historical Weather with daily and monthly temperature and precipitation averages
- Routing and Travel Time information for each location letting you quickly glance at your path ahead and know when youâll get there.
This isnât the stupidest code Iâve ever written, but its close.

I'm working with capturing images from the camera.
If Apple doesn't ship a native #SwiftUI camera control this year they just aren't serious.
SwiftUI is so very incomplete. Getting a photo into your app is so fundamental it's a glaring omission.
Atop the pile of glaring omissionsâŚ
#SwiftUI PhotosPicker is another example of a very good component that gets 85% of the way there.
It's fairly easy to select images and display them in your UI. However if you want to have the picker indicate images you may already have in your UI you canât.
If I'm missing something I would love to hear.
Then I discovered something. If you add a birthday to a person's contact card, iOS creates a birthday calendar automatically đ¤Ż
Add the birth year too and it even shows you how old they get. Nice!
But then the problems started đ
The reminder for all birthdays is fixed at 9am. You can change it, but only globally for every single birthday at once. No way to set different reminders for (1/3)
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