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/CloudKit makes data very hard to lose — including on purpose. The steps that finally wiped an app and all its iCloud data clean, found by trial and error.Tue, 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/Sentry needs dSYMs to symbolicate stack traces, and Xcode Cloud won't hand them over on its own. How I wired the upload into my three workflows.Thu, 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/Why searchable and TextField behave differently inside a sheet using presentationDetents, and what I settled on for logging meals in No Meat Today.Fri, 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/My app had quietly grown to 72 MB, and I had no idea why. How I found what was eating the space and got it back down. Mostly cows, as it turned out.Thu, 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/Single-size icons broke my build with two unhelpful errors. The asset scales that fixed 'CompileAssetCatalog failed' and 'Core Data API misuse'.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/SemVer exists to avoid dependency hell. App Store users can't pick a version, so it buys them nothing — here's what I number releases by instead.Thu, 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/An inventory of every string App Shortcuts expose through App Intents, and how to translate each one — including what the docs don't tell you.Tue, 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/Personal notes on how Canvas, Path, Shape and View actually differ in SwiftUI: what each one is, and when to reach for it.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 settings shouldn't surface in your app, but they're useful at times. How I hid a Diagnostic Mode behind Settings.bundle in a SwiftUI 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/How to make an enum with associated values conform to Identifiable, and drive SwiftUI views with it — the paywall in No Meat Today, in my case.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/Your App Store page is often the first contact someone has with your app. How I translate its marketing content with Localazy and Fastlane.Sun, 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/I'd given up on translating No Meat Today — nothing I found fit my budget or my patience. Then I tried Localazy. Here's how I got started.Fri, 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/Testing a signup confirmation means clicking a link inside an email. Two ways to do it in Capybara: lean with Nokogiri, or comfortable with capybara-email.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/System tests need a browser and a driver to pilot it. Why I replaced Selenium with Cuprite in my Rails system tests, and what it changed.Thu, 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/Trix won't turn a pasted URL into a link, which surprised me. A Stimulus controller that makes it behave, with no jQuery involved.Mon, 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/Rails fixtures support YAML defaults, but the docs only ever show one set. How to use several, and why the DEFAULTS label trips everyone up.Tue, 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/Emoji Button already does the hard part of a vanilla JavaScript emoji picker. The Stimulus controller I wrote to drop it into a Rails app.Wed, 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