Instructions and prompts It is no secret that I am using GitHub Copilot as my personal coding assistant. To optimize the quality of Copilot’s answers (and code), I recently started to use custom in...
My Motivation A few months ago I joined the Architecture Guild at work to participate in the architectural decision process as well as to educate myself further in this area. As part of this additi...
It’s time for another update on my journey through the iOS Lead Essentials program. The course continues to challenge and shape the way I approach app architecture and development. With the recent ...
Sentry is a powerful tool for error tracking and diagnostics, and in my TwistReader MAUI app, I wanted to go beyond just capturing errors in production. The goal: use Sentry for all logging, but pe...
After reaching the White Belt 1 stripe in the iOS Lead Essentials program, I’m starting to see how everything I’ve learned so far is beginning to connect. This third module, focused on persistence ...
Update 2025-05-23 I decided to move away from micro.blog because, as an indie developer, reachability is crucial for me. I noticed that the platform’s lack of notifications for direct messages and...
In my previous blog post, Exporting Apple Distribution Certificates for CI/CD — The Right Way, I shared a reliable method to extract and repackage Apple Distribution certificates into a clean .p12 ...
When you’re setting up CI/CD for iOS projects using GitHub Actions, one of the first real blockers is code signing. In particular, if you’re trying to use an exported .p12 file of your Apple Distri...
Yesterday, I was listening to Merge Conflict Episode 454: Let’s ship some .NET iOS & Android apps! CI/CD Deep Dive, where James and Frank discussed setting up CI/CD pipelines for .NET iOS and A...
When it comes to learning, I always had mixed results in the past. While I was able to memorize a lot of stuff for a short amount of time, I often had to look up several topics again and again once...