Notes on SwiftUI, Xcode, Rails, and building indie apps.https://sowenjub.me/https://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-delete-an-app-and-all-icloud-cloudkit-data/https://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-delete-an-app-and-all-icloud-cloudkit-data/We hear a lot about the difficulties of backing up Core Data / SwiftData with CloudKit. But on the other hand, when it works, CloudKit does its job well: it's vTue, 05 Mar 2024 10:18:58 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-upload-dsyms-files-to-sentry-with-xcode-cloud/https://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-upload-dsyms-files-to-sentry-with-xcode-cloud/I have 3 Xcode Cloud workflows: * any update on the `dev` branch creates a build for Internal Testing * any update on the `main` branch creates a build for ExteThu, 25 Jan 2024 17:24:44 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/searchable-vs-textfield-in-a-sheet-deployed-with-presentationdetents/https://sowenjub.me/writes/searchable-vs-textfield-in-a-sheet-deployed-with-presentationdetents/Let's start with a little background. There are various reasons why people use No Meat Today. Generally speaking, they want to reduce the amount of meat they eaFri, 16 Dec 2022 13:49:33 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/how-i-made-my-app-73-percent-ligther/https://sowenjub.me/writes/how-i-made-my-app-73-percent-ligther/Last summer I noticed that my app had gained weight, but I wasn't sure what caused it and how to investigate. After playing with Single Size icons, I became famThu, 17 Nov 2022 11:02:04 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/single-size-icons-solving-command-compileassetcatalog-failed-with-a-nonzero-exit-code/https://sowenjub.me/writes/single-size-icons-solving-command-compileassetcatalog-failed-with-a-nonzero-exit-code/⚡TLDR: make sure that: * your complications assets have the proper Scale (Individual Scales for Circular and Graphic Extra large, Single Scale for the others) *Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:34:29 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/im-done-with-semantic-versioning/https://sowenjub.me/writes/im-done-with-semantic-versioning/Until now, the marketing version of my apps was set using Semantic versioning as my Software versioning scheme. I did that out of habit and without seriously thThu, 27 Oct 2022 13:55:23 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/localizing-app-shortcuts-with-app-intents/https://sowenjub.me/writes/localizing-app-shortcuts-with-app-intents/When implementing App Shortcuts with App Intents, it can be a bit daunting to localize everything. Below is a small inventory of each String, and how to translaTue, 06 Sep 2022 12:42:07 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/swiftui-canvas-path-shape-and-view/https://sowenjub.me/writes/swiftui-canvas-path-shape-and-view/Here are some personal notes about the differences between some basic elements of SwiftUI: * a Canvas [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/canvas]Tue, 17 May 2022 08:50:09 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-add-a-diagnostic-mode-using-settings-bundle-and-swiftui/https://sowenjub.me/writes/how-to-add-a-diagnostic-mode-using-settings-bundle-and-swiftui/Technical stuff shouldn't surface in your app, but it can be useful at times: let's see how we can enable a "Diagnostic Mode" or a "Developer" menu in your app Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:39:54 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/identifiable-enum-with-associated-values/https://sowenjub.me/writes/identifiable-enum-with-associated-values/Here I'll show you how you can easily make an enum conform to the Identifiable protocol and how you can use this in your SwiftUI views. In my app No Meat Today Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:38:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/localizing-your-app-store-marketing-content-with-localazy/https://sowenjub.me/writes/localizing-your-app-store-marketing-content-with-localazy/I briefly talked about my setup in https://paraside.in/translating-your-ios-app-with-localazy/ [https://sowenjub.me/writes/translating-your-ios-app-with-localazSun, 30 May 2021 13:36:22 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/translating-your-ios-app-with-localazy/https://sowenjub.me/writes/translating-your-ios-app-with-localazy/A couple of people have asked me to translate No Meat Today [https://nomeat.today] in their language, but the last time I tried to tackle that, none of the soluFri, 28 May 2021 22:00:27 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/capybara-2-ways-to-click-links-in-emails/https://sowenjub.me/writes/capybara-2-ways-to-click-links-in-emails/If you want to write system tests you'll probably want to cover a use-case involving an email sent to a user (for instance, a sign up confirmation link). There Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/replacing-selenium-with-cuprite-for-rails-system-tests/https://sowenjub.me/writes/replacing-selenium-with-cuprite-for-rails-system-tests/In the world of tests [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html], system tests are as close to real users as it gets: you control a browser and make it use yThu, 17 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/auto-linking-urls-with-trix-editor-and-stimulusjs/https://sowenjub.me/writes/auto-linking-urls-with-trix-editor-and-stimulusjs/The https://trix-editor.org [https://trix-editor.org/] is fantastic, but there's one simple thing I expected to be built-in that isn't: copy/pasting a URL shoulMon, 19 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/multiple-yaml-defaults-in-rails-fixtures/https://sowenjub.me/writes/multiple-yaml-defaults-in-rails-fixtures/You know that you can use YAML defaults in your fixtures [https://api.rubyonrails.org/v3.1/classes/ActiveRecord/Fixtures.html] to extract common attributes valuTue, 25 Aug 2020 14:05:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/emoji-picker-controller-with-stimulus-js/https://sowenjub.me/writes/emoji-picker-controller-with-stimulus-js/I needed an emoji picker for my latest Rails app and found Emoji Button [https://github.com/joeattardi/emoji-button] by @joeattardi that he introduced here [httWed, 15 Jul 2020 20:01:00 GMThttps://sowenjub.me/writes/required-form-label-with-rails-tailwindcss/https://sowenjub.me/writes/required-form-label-with-rails-tailwindcss/This post addresses a simple need: adding a "required" text next to any form field label that is… required.Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:01:00 GMT