The iOS 17 SDK introduced a powerful new tool to save and restore user data easily, SwiftData. SwiftData | Apple Developer Documentation Write your model code declaratively to add managed persistence and automatic iCloud sync.developer.apple.com SwiftData is a high-level abstraction layer over a battle-tested technology CoreData. But SwiftData makes it dead simple: you don’t need a model editor, you don’t need to know about database, SQLite, or anything…

Making a secondary column has never been simpler with iOS 17+ — The latest version of SwiftUI introduced an interesting new modifier, .inspector. inspector(isPresented:content:) | Apple Developer Documentation Inserts an inspector at the applied position in the view hierarchy.developer.apple.com On iPad and macOS, you can now easily open an inspector with full opening/closing animation. What is an inspector? Well, think about Xcode, how you can close and open the panel on the side.

You thought you could use @AppStorage and the new @Observable? Think again! — As weird as it seems, the @AppStorage new macro does not support the property wrapper. If, like me you had ObservableObject with @AppStorage properties in them, which were working precisely as @Published properties, it simply won’t compile once you migrate your object to @Observable. But we have a solution, thanks…

How to adopt it in a full-featured application — If you were wondering if you should migrate your SwiftUI app to the new Observation framework, and if it’s even worth it, you’re at the right place. I recently bumped Ice Cubes, my open source Mastodon client, to iOS 17+ only, as I converted it to the new observation framework…

Technical exploration & capabilities of our proof of concept — OpenAI recently announced the support of plugins for ChatGPT. Plugins are a groundbreaking feature for ChatGPT as they solve one of the platform’s biggest problems, which is its lack of access to the internet and up to date content. ChatGPT was trained on a dataset from 2021 and does not…

How I integrated OpenAI API into Ice Cubes, a SwiftUI open source Mastodon client, to make a lightweight AI assistant. — I invite you to read my previous story about Ice Cubes if you didn’t already, which will provide a bit more context to this article. The making of Ice Cubes, an open source, SwiftUI Mastodon client. This is the beginning of a series of articles about the making of Ice Cubesdimillian.medium.com

An archive of a conversation I had on Mastodon — It started with this Toot I first got a reply from Chris from objc.io Chris Eidhof (@chris@m.objc.io) @dimillian@mastodon.social @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online have you considered moving to LazyVStack? Are you depending on…m.objc.io My reply which start a whole other conversation about why I switched the main tilmeline in Ice Cubes from a LazyVStack to a List

We don’t realise it yet, but our daily workflow will be completely changed and integrated with those new kind of tools — I’ve spent a lof of time last weekend playing with first Open AI ChatGPT and then Midjourney. At first I laughed, then I started to be completely brain fucked at the possibilities, and then I finally realised the potential and started to use it for more productive endeavours. Note: I…

A simple open source SwiftUI app for Diablo II — My favorite video game franchise of all time is most probably Diablo, I’ve been playing it since forever, and the release of the remaster of Diablo II (Diablo II Resurrected) last year was the best thing to ever happen to the franchise. …