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A Few Thoughts on the Eve of WWDC

Here we are again, on the eve of another WWDC, feeling…weird. Excited. Ambivalent? Curious. Did I mention excited? But also kinda annoyed. And some of you? Some of you are downright mad. There’s a cloud hovering over Apple Park again, and it’s not just the pandemic. It’s bruised developer relations. It’s alleged anti-trust violations. It’s […]

A Few Thoughts on the Eve of WWDC

Here we are again, on the eve of another WWDC, feeling…weird. Excited. Ambivalent? Curious. Did I mention excited? But also kinda annoyed. And some of you? Some of you are downright mad. There’s a cloud hovering over Apple Park again, and it’s not just the pandemic. It’s bruised developer relations. It’s alleged anti-trust violations. It’s […]

Adding a Gradient to Large Title Text in SwiftUI or UIKit

When I first released YarnBuddy, it had an orange-to-pink gradient as the navigation bar background color. The colors reminded me of a sunset, which I liked, but the overall effect was a little too heavy and could easily clash with the user’s own project photos. I wondered if I could do something a little more […]

Adding a Gradient to Large Title Text in SwiftUI or UIKit

When I first released YarnBuddy, it had an orange-to-pink gradient as the navigation bar background color. The colors reminded me of a sunset, which I liked, but the overall effect was a little too heavy and could easily clash with the user’s own project photos. I wondered if I could do something a little more […]

What’s New in YarnBuddy

My backlog of blog posts I want to write is getting a bit ridiculous at this point. One of them is a follow-up to YarnBuddy’s “App of the Day” feature back in March, complete with screenshots and stats and the whole story of how that feature came to be. I’m not quite ready to put […]