Rod Schmidt

There’s no doubt that coding agents can make an individual developer more productive, at least in the initial stage of actually creating the code.

On of the first programs I ever ran on a computer was a text adventure game, also known as Interactive Fiction.

Since February of 2026, I’ve been publishing a series of videos on implementing Swish, a Clojure-like Lisp in Swift using Claude Code.

Featured in Clojure Deref on December 30th, 2025 In my previous article, I showed how to embed a S7 Scheme interpreter in an iOS app.

I am a fan of Lisp.

This is part 6 of my blog series on the history of my app Numerology.

This is part 5 of my blog series on the history of my app Numerology.

This is part 4 of my blog series on the history of my app Numerology.

This is part 3 of my blog series on the history of my app Numerology.

This is part 2 of my blog series on the history of my app Numerology.

Problem Are you self-employed?

Introduction My app, Numerology, has been in the Apple app store for over 17 years.

In my last job, I was on a platform team.

Testing has grown to be a very important part of software development.

On June 6th, I flew out to Pittsburgh to see the Pirates play the Dodgers for the final stop in my lifetime goal to see a home game for every MLB team.

In comments to my last article on The Composable Architecture readers have asked about examples of how I think an app should be written.

Introduction I recently finished a 3 year stint with a company that uses the Composable Architecture (TCA) from PointFree.

Busch Stadium I finally went to another baseball game in my goal to see every MLB team at their home stadium.

If you’ve visited this site in the past, you’ve probably noticed a change.

Believe or not, I just got around to watching the 2 Steve Jobs movies that came out a few years ago: Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, and Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher I’ve held off watching them because I knew there would be a lot of inaccuracies.

With SwiftUI, everything has changed.

I recently found two more examples of Clean Architecture.

Today, I’d like to take an example iOS app written with an MVC architecture and show you what the example would be with a Clean Swift architecture.

In the last post, I talked about various architectures used as alternatives to MVC, in a attempt to solve MVCs problems, such as Massive View Controller.

In the last post, I talked about MVC, its problems, and how it could be done right.

Model View Controller or MVC is the application architecture used by default for applications on all Apple platforms.

Someone on the reddit iOS Programming group asked “What are the mistakes generally done by iOS developers while coding in Swift?”

A thread in the AskPrograming forum on reddit started with this question and I thought I would share my thoughts on planning and up-front design.

In part 3, I talked about why putting the MOC in the app delegate makes any code that uses the MOC will be dependent on the app delegate and why that’s not a good thing.

In part 2, I talked about why putting the MOC in the app delegate is a violation of the Single Responsibility Principle.

In my previous post, I gave some reasons why putting the Core Data MOC in your app delegate was a bad idea.

In a previous post, I wrote about controlling my OWI robot arm with Elixir.

Lots of companies have constant problems testing their iOS apps.

I saw this question on the iOSProgramming topic in reddit: I’ve seen a number of different ways to access the NSManagedObjectContext when working with Core Data, but I was wondering if there are any downsides to the way I’ve been doing it.

My robot hobby is picking up steam.

I’ve been getting into robots lately.

The Problem Last week, I had to implement sticky footers in a table view.

You’ve probably noticed that my blog has changed again.

Yoshiko & I My name is Rod Schmidt.

A while back I wrote a blog post and entered it in a contest for App: The Human Story.

There is a Kickstarter project that was started recently for a film titled App: The Human Story.

If you haven’t noticed, my weblog has a new design and new content.

Today is officially the last day of my sabbatical.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2002 Wednesday morning I got back in the Jeep and started my trip home.

Sunday, August 11th, 2002 Sunday morning, I decided to go downtown and check out the JFK museum.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2002 I met my friend Marc at his house and we headed off to the game.

August 8th - August 14th, 2002 Thurday morning I drove up to Dallas.

August 4th - August 8th, 2002 I spent Sunday through Thursday morning in Austin.

Monday, August 5th, 2002 Today was my first full day in Austin.

Saturday, August 3rd From Albuquerque, I decided to go half way to Austin, and stay the night with a recent friend of the family and her family.