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generalpf · 2026-04-25T15:29:05 1777130945

>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.

generalpf · 2026-04-17T13:39:13 1776433153

Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.

groby_b · 2026-04-17T14:10:06 1776435006

No, you really don't. Apple would like you to use it (god knows why), but it's not necessary.

brailsafe · 2026-04-17T17:48:23 1776448103

I feel like this needs a big asterisk. Can you ship a a non-trivial iOS or Mac app that uses SwiftUI or other first-party APIs without Xcode? Is it practical? Those are real questions, some cursory searching did not turn up a concrete answer.

groby_b · 2026-04-21T17:19:37 1776791977

Define "without Xcode", but if you mean "without using the IDE", yes, absolutely.

You obviously still need to use signing pipeline etc, but that can all be done via CLI.

As for "non-trivial", here are Chrome's build instructions for macOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/m...

Which contains the words "While using Xcode is unsupported" :)

whstl · 2026-04-19T13:44:09 1776606249

It is possible and practical in lots of cases. And it's necessary to use the CLI tools directly in some situations, such as when deploying from CI servers rather than building by hand.

Is it possible for 100% of situations? I don't know, because I haven't tried 100% of the situations. And in one case I haven't figured out yet (AUv3).

whstl · 2026-04-17T15:01:51 1776438111

Hopefully not!

So far I’ve been shipping internal apps without it! Even notarizing works :)

Apparently Audio Units v3 is only available with Xcode, which is why I’m only doing v2.

generalpf · 2026-04-17T13:38:55 1776433135

It does.

generalpf · 2026-02-25T19:18:16 1772047096

By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.

igloopan · 2026-02-25T19:24:17 1772047457

Interesting, did not know that. The writing feels undoubtedly LLM generated to me regardless, which is a trend in their other blogs too. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-pu... is the worst offender.

generalpf · 2026-02-19T13:25:15 1771507515

Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.

myko · 2026-02-23T15:04:01 1771859041

ARC is GC, Swift definitely uses GC.

It isn't a _tracing_ GC

generalpf · 2025-11-30T18:12:56 1764526376

This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.

generalpf · 2025-11-14T21:08:45 1763154525

Mac and Dennis: Manhunters

(It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)

generalpf · 2025-11-07T20:22:04 1762546924

It doesn't matter what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do, Tim Cook took Apple to a $3T company and that's where we are.

bigstrat2003 · 2025-11-08T00:15:46 1762560946

Money isn't everything. We can, and should, shun businessmen who try to eke out every ounce of profit by making their products terrible.

mason_mpls · 2025-11-07T20:27:28 1762547248

Yeah every action a company takes is immediately and completely reflected in the market cap /s

graemep · 2025-11-08T13:57:50 1762610270

It should be, or, to be precise, everything it is publicly known to have done is reflected in its share price.

its called the semi-strong form of the efficient markets hypothesis.

generalpf · 2025-09-30T15:46:27 1759247187

Another Forbes 30 under 30!

duxup · 2025-09-30T15:48:20 1759247300

It's funny how a lot of those media blurb lists are just "this person says they're doing things at a functional business".

generalpf · 2025-09-02T16:22:21 1756830141

You don't need this library, it's just an `AlertDialog` wrapper with a check in `SharedPreferences`. It's not particularly well-written.