AppKit vs SwiftUI on macOS: Layout, Performance, and Trade-offs
A comparison of AppKit and SwiftUI as macOS UI frameworks, covering layout, rendering, and performance at scale, plus where UIKit and Mac Catalyst fit in.
My Very Fun, Super Duper Evening
An LLM refactor of my dotfiles sourced my workspace files, so every new shell launched more shells. I fixed it from macOS Recovery Mode with diskutil.
Automating macOS Setup with Bootstrap and Teardown Scripts
How I replaced an afternoon of new-Mac setup with bootstrap.sh, and why the teardown script has to be written at the same time.
Faster Zsh Startup: compinit, NVM, and Claude Code PATH
My zsh prompt took a second to appear, with compinit running three times. Profiling with zprof, fixing NVM, and stopping Claude Code losing Node.
Building The Daily Feed News Reader with Claude Code
How I built The Daily Feed, a native macOS RSS reader, in Swift with Claude Code, with SQLite full-text search and Ollama-generated reading quizzes.
Building a macOS Image Viewer with Claude Code
A native macOS photo gallery built in Swift with Claude Code. Point it at a folder and get a thumbnail grid with sorting, filtering, and favorites.