AppKit vs SwiftUI on macOS: Layout, Performance, and Trade-offs
A comparison of SwiftUI and AppKit as UI frameworks for macOS, covering how each handles layout and rendering, where each performs well, and what the choice means at scale.
My Very Fun, Super Duper Evening
What happens when you let an LLM refactor your dotfiles without checking the output closely enough. Spoiler: you boot into Recovery Mode.
Automating macOS Setup: Bootstrap, Teardown, and Keeping It All in Sync
Setting up a new Mac used to mean an afternoon of clicking through installers and trying to remember what I had last time. I fixed that with a single bash script — and learned a few things the hard way.
Speeding Up Zsh Startup: Fixing compinit, NVM, and Claude Code PATH Issues
My terminal was taking over a second to show a prompt. One profiling command later, the culprit was obvious: compinit running three times. Here is what I found, how I fixed it, and how I made Claude Code stop losing track of Node.
Building The Daily Feed News Reader with Claude Code
The macOS News app gave me anxiety. So I built my own RSS reader in Swift, a language I don't know, using Claude Code. Here's how that went.
Building a macOS Image Viewer with Claude Code
I don't know Swift. I built a native macOS photo gallery with Claude Code anyway, and now I actually enjoy browsing my photo library.