Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Forbidden Controls in Catalyst: Optimize Interface for Mac

  Published: 22 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Investigating why certain UIKit controls throw runtime exceptions in Catalyst's 'Optimize Interface for Mac' mode and discovering which controls are forbidden.

• Disabling Keyboard Avoidance in SwiftUI's UIHostingController

  Published: 21 Sep, 2020

  • 6 min read

  Fixing unwanted keyboard avoidance behavior in UIHostingController using runtime dynamic subclassing to override keyboard notification handling methods.

• The State of SwiftUI

  Published: 13 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Testing SwiftUI's production readiness in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur through Apple's Fruta sample app, revealing performance issues and platform-specific limitations.

• Logging in Swift

  Published: 24 Aug, 2020

  • 15 min read

  An in-depth exploration of Apple's unified logging system and the promising OSLogStore API that Apple removed from iOS 14 at the last minute.

• Building with Swift Trunk Development Snapshots

  Published: 12 Jun, 2020

  • 4 min read

  A troubleshooting guide for building with Swift trunk development snapshots, documenting compilation errors, linker issues, and their solutions.

• Calling Super at Runtime in Swift

  Published: 10 Jun, 2020

  • 16 min read

  Implementing dynamic super calls in Swift through runtime manipulation, assembly language, and ARM64 register management for InterposeKit.

• zld — A Faster Version of Apple's Linker

  Published: 5 Jun, 2020

  • 3 min read

  How to speed up iOS build times by 40% using zld, a drop-in replacement for Apple's linker, with practical integration tips for real projects.

• How to Fix LLDB: Couldn't IRGen Expression

  Published: 4 Jun, 2020

  • 10 min read

  Solving the mysterious LLDB 'Couldn't IRGen expression' error by investigating Swift module path serialization and discovering that removing dSYM bundles fixes debugging issues.

• Updating macOS on a Hackintosh

  Published: 1 Jun, 2020

  • 5 min read

  A practical guide to safely updating macOS on a Hackintosh by first updating OpenCore bootloader and essential kexts before upgrading the system.

• InterposeKit — Elegant Swizzling in Swift

  Published: 31 May, 2020

  • 3 min read

  Introducing InterposeKit, a modern Swift library for elegant method swizzling that leverages Swift 5.2's callAsFunction for type-safe Objective-C method interception.