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How do you tell a DNS proxy extension that its 250k-domain blocklist changed?

I finally read SE-0306 and actors stopped being a mystery.

Actors let tasks slip through reentrancy and a Mutex can't be held across an await — so how do you guarantee an async method never runs twice at once?

I wrapped a delegate-based SDK in async/await because it was "modern."

I spent years avoiding .fixedSize because the name sounded like a trap.

The story of how I built Blur Browser — a native macOS browser built with WebKit — using AI as my development partner.

Stop throwing .animation() modifiers everywhere and hoping for the best.

Ever wondered why some SwiftUI animations feel buttery smooth while others stutter and jump?

Ever wondered why some SwiftUI views feel silky smooth while others feel like they're running through molasses?

A year ago, if you told me I'd be contributing to AI tooling, I would have laughed.

Ever wondered how a simple UUID() call in Swift guarantees you'll never get the same identifier twice?

Created my own AsyncImage api to make it behave as I wanted.

Lessons learned after doing magic for 12 years.

Scroll paging effect in swiftUI using _VariadicView.

‘We can’t touch that code — it’s all callback-based!’

The landscape of concurrent programming in Swift has evolved dramatically, presenting developers with multiple paths to handle complex operations.

Ever caught yourself saying “I’m just a junior developer” when facing a challenging task?

When working with SwiftUI, developers often encounter unexpected behaviors that can be challenging to debug.

As iOS developers, we often find ourselves working with system frameworks and third-party libraries, Sometimes, we need these types to conform to certain protocols, especially when working with SwiftUI.

My name is Omar Elsayed, I graduated from electrical engineering in August 2023.

With the release of Swift 5.9, Apple introduced a new feature called Macros.