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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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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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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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iOS Development

Should I learn UIKit or SwiftUI?

Should you learn UIKit for SwiftUI in 2020?