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. I’ve been playing Diablo II for the last…

You should use it, but also be aware of some of its limitations — I’ve only recently started to use AttributedString, it’s been introduced with iOS 15 and as the Medium application also support iOS 14 I was not really looking into it. However, as we write even more parts of the app in SwiftUI, and iOS 16 is approaching, I felt it was…

I’m the first SwiftUI fan, I’ve been doing it since day 1, I was at the WWDC for the lauch, the next hour I was already making an open source project about it. We were all amazed, it was the greatest Apple surprise of the decade for us developers. It…

And a few inspiring quotes — Lately, I’ve been back to reading, a lot. Somehow I got really bored of video games after playing Elden Ring for hundreds of hours (I’m obsessive like that) that I only managed to play few games of Civilization VI after that but that’s about it. After finally finishing Sapiens (it…

A short opinion piece — I’ve seen countless tweets and stories lately about iOS app architecture. I’ve been a huge fan of trying new architecture on iOS, and in the past I have worked with Redux / TCA like architecture because I believe unidirectional data flow is the only way to have a good &…