Working on big iOS projects, I rely heavily on Claude Code as my debugging sidekick. My Claude.md file just keeps getting more useful as I add my personal fixes and preferences. The trust I have in this assistant grows with every bug hunt and as the models improve over time....
The 5-Year Frustration with Bitrise For years, I've been frustrated with a seemingly simple problem: every time my Bitrise CI/CD pipeline successfully uploaded a new iOS build to TestFlight, I had to manually open App Store Connect, wait for the build to process, and copy-paste release notes into the "What...
My friend, Eero, back in the early 2000s, was learning website development and lamented how cumbersome it was. He found the necessity of intricate programming languages like HTML* (sigh) for creating webpages overly complex and exclusive to programmers. He envisioned a supercomputer that understood his design intentions in human language,...
I've been discussing the future with a few friends. Most of them feel somewhat threatened by the emergence of AI. They are concerned about their jobs*, positions in life, and their investments and savings. Many have read about the potentially negative scenarios that superintelligence could bring to humanity, including the...
As an entrepreneur or business leader about to invest in a software application for your business, you’re faced with a significant decision: hiring a development shop. Outsourcing a development team seems straightforward, with many development companies available globally. However, it entails placing trust in a team to execute a task...
The landscape of programming is undergoing changes, driven by advancements in AI and machine learning. Traditional programming might not become obsolete, but the role of the software developer is certainly changing. In the near future, we expect to see the emergence of AI-powered Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that are more...
One of the things the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution will bring us is a content explosion. We will witness exponential growth in quality written and visual content. This can roll out in a variety of ways, but let’s explore a few scenarios of how would it happen and what are...
During the last 10+ years that I’ve built mobile applications, there have been many different cross-platform or even “no-code” solutions to build mobile apps. React Native, Appcelerator Titanium, Adobe Cordova, Ionic, Xamarin come to mind. I have built production apps with the first two, so I have extensive experience with...
While there’s plenty of stories that go around about successes in a startup world, stories on failure are much harder to come by. This is understandable, as the good news is easier to share than to admit that we have failed. This is a story of “hINF”, short for “Health...
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been researching, setting up and comparing Continuous Integration systems for an Xcode iOS Development project.This article is about this journey and a subjective comparison between three major CI/CD solutions; Jenkins, CircleCI and Bitrise. What is Continuous Integration (CI) There are different types of...
