Not only Swift

Here is Switch Angel, live coding a trance song using strudel.cc:

Ever since I first saw this, I’ve wanted a Swift version of strudel.cc. 1amageek made my dream come true! Time for some live coded trance music at the next major Swift conference?

These are some useful tips for debugging in Xcode. Conditional breakpoints are particularly useful when debugging loops, or when calling backends and you’re waiting for a particular return value.

Apple is well-known for their rounded rectangles. They’re everywhere: on your iDevices, the UIs in Apple’s operating systems, and even on the handrails in their visitor center.

But… are these really just rounded rectangles, or rather concentric rectangles? Natalia tells you more, and explains why cutting corners might for once be a good thing.

Apple just announced the iPhone Duo, their first foldable device at their September 9th, 2026 event.

Developers and designer now have a couple of days to adapt to the new screen sizes before real devices hit store shelves.

Jordan has a list of key resources you should look at to get a head start.

ArrangementView is not about arranging music in Ableton, but one of the key views in SwiftUI that help creating layouts for Apple’s new iPhone Duo. It looks remarkably similar to NavigationSplitView. Artem explains how it works.

This article resonates so much with me. I read a lot - books, newspapers, blog posts, design docs, conference talk proposals, PRDs, and more.

I’ve noticed that more and more written content is produced with or even by AI, and that’s not a good thing.

Even if you use a humanizer skill, AI content will always have a tell, and your readers will notice. Worse - as Bryan points out - people will not just stop reading your article, they will abandon you as an author.

So instead of gaining more readers, your audience will diminish.

Humanizer is a skill that promises to make your AI-generated text sound more human. It does so by addressing 35 patterns listed in Wikipedia as signs of AI writing.

So obviously, I was curious, and tested this on an AI-generated blog post. Turns out that tools like Pangram can still identify the result as 100% AI generated.

So, maybe instead of trying to humanise AI-generated text, it might be better to write it yourself instead. At least if you care about your readers.

For the longest time, we’ve heard the recommendation to reset your context (by starting a new conversation) or compact your current conversation’s context window. But maybe that’s not such a great idea after all - it might be better to distill the context into its essence so the agent can later access it when needed. Here is a plugin that implements this approach for Pi.

If you’re using any coding agent, you’ve probably found yourself exhausted by the number of permission prompts these agents tend to ask even for seemingly innocuous commands like running grep.

However, as you might be aware, a fleet of agents recently managed to break out of their sandbox to extract the solution for a problem from Hugging Face.

Or so we all thought at the beginning. Turns out it was a lot worse. This podcast is an entertaining and still informative way to understand what happened, what was going on behind the scenes, and why it’s actually a good idea to not give free rein to your agents.

It’s quite astonishing to see two experienced journalists struggle with not wanting to anthropomorphise these software systems, but ending up doing it anyway: “the conscientious objectors were unsuccessful in swaying the mob to stop this…” - sounds a bit scary, doesn’t it?

Reading up on the docs and watching Apple’s videos is one way to learn about everything you need to know about designing for iPhone Duo. Using an agent skill to teach your coding agent to start migrating your code while you watch the videos also might be a smart strategy.

Florian Schweizer updated his skills (I previously covered his Liquid Glass skills in Issue 101). BTW, even though it says these are Cursor skills, they work in other coding agents as well. I’ve successfully used them in OpenCode and Antigravity.

This article is an encouragement for anyone who’s thinking about publishing blog posts, videos, tutorials, or any other content.

You’ve probably thought “someone else has already covered this” or “people can just ask AI”. And while that’s true, nobody has spoken or written about it with your perspective. And that might be the one that resonates with someone else, and will help them unblock.

So - go ahead and publish that article. Record that video. Give that talk. Even if it feels uncomfortable at first.

But please - use your own voice and thoughts. Don’t let AI take away your personality.

Fun, but also mildly infuriating 😂