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I’m breaking ground on a companion Mac app today. It’s main job is to ingest JSON records, transform them to match a CloudKit schema and write them to a public CloudKit database.

And my neighbors are jack hammering their patio, which is bringing some good build something ambiance.

CloudKit

Saturday July 22, 2023

I’m building a reader app for images. The content is all similar (in the same subject domain) – but coming from multiple sources, each with it’s own schema. Some is available via API, but some is only via data dump.

Phase 1 is defining a common schema, fetching all the data, normalizing it into the shared schema, and then writing it all into a public CloudKit database.

T-minus 59 days...

CloudKit

Friday July 21, 2023

I’ve been a Mac user most of my life. But I've never developed for Apple platforms until now, so I’ve never written any Objective-C. I started learning Swift and SwiftUI last fall. Prior to that, my work revolved around AWS and node.js, so I’ve had to rewire my brain quite a bit.

Friday July 21, 2023

I’m designing and building my first Apple app. My goal is to ship alongside iOS 17 — which given past as prologue, is most likely September 18th.

So I have 60 days to make an app.

Thursday July 20, 2023