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Building In Public iOS Development retrospectives

🦄 Dev Diaries – Month 2

Hey, I’m Mikaela 🦄 I’m an independent iOS developer working on making my own apps profitable, and doing some freelance on the side.

Every month, I plan on publishing a journal / retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business.

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Building In Public iOS Development retrospectives

🦄 Dev Diaries – Month 1

Hey, I’m Mikaela 🦄 I’m an independent iOS developer working on making my own apps profitable, and doing some freelance on the side.

Every month, I plan on publishing a journal / retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business.

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Vision Pro visionOS

Attending a Vision Pro Lab Step-By-Step

My experience at a Vision Pro lab, Apple’s unreleased spatial computing device.

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iOS Development

How to Learn SwiftData in 2023

SwiftData was released at WWDC23! Everyone is watching keynote videos (session videos) to get started. Here’s the proper order to watch Apple’s session videos.

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Building In Public iOS Development

Building in Public – Expense Tracker 05: Creating Models with Vapor and Fluent

I’m building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This blog series is a written form of each livestream. See all the previous posts. I started this steam by adding a property that I forgot during the last stream, thankfully someone pointed this out to me afterwards. Next I created the Fluent […]

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Building In Public iOS Development

Building in Public – Expense Tracker 04: Creating Migrations with Vapor

I’m building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This is blog series is a written form of each livestream.

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Building In Public iOS Development

Building in Public – Expense Tracker 03: Planning an iOS App

I’m building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This is blog series is a written form of each livestream.

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Building In Public iOS Development

Building in Public – Expense Tracker 02: Design and Sketch

I’m building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This blog series is a written form of each livestream. See all the previous posts. The second video was all about the design. I brainstormed what the app would look like as a high-fidelity design, and what the colors would be. I used […]

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Building In Public iOS Development

Building in Public – Expense Tracker 01: Introduction

I’m building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This is a blog series that will be like a written form of each livestream. I won’t be going into the technical details of everything but instead summarizing the livestream. First Livestream The first livestream was an introduction to what the app is […]

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Woodworking

Creating a Butcher Block Desk Top

When I bought my sit / stand desk, I decided to forgo buying a desktop and made my own. I’ve always liked woodworking and making my own meant that I can pick any color and make it whatever size/shape that I wanted. I spent about 40 hours total and 11 days making a butcher block […]