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🦄 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Building the Job Application Tracker

Why Tracking job applications on different platforms and for different companies almost always ends in using a spreadsheet. I wanted to have a simple way to track job applications and try using SQLite in an application. Sketch First I created a rough design of what the app could look like, using Sketch. I brainstormed what […]