Eli Perkins's Blog

Stop writing count ??

I did a git commit and a git push this morning and realized there's a tool that I've used for many years now (or at least 4 years, depending on when I actually put it in my Brewfile).

I've been using Claude Code a lot more over the last 6 months.

Saying "I don't look at the code" is not the flex you think it is.

I've used a million different ways to record videos of iOS apps that I've worked over the last many years.

One year ago, I started paying for a search engine.

An old coworker of mine would spend an hour or two each week cleaning up warts or dead code in the codebase we worked on.

tl;dr I love mise (aka mise-en-place) for managing programming language versions.

No one likes to review a +4,490/-903 pull request.

Communicating with your app's customers is an art.

Some years ago, my team at GitHub grew from 2 full time individual iOS contributors (and one manager who could still code), to 7 of us ICs.

Some years ago, I migrated both my personal site and my blog to Gatsby.

tl;dr: Use relay --validate to catch Relay validation errors in CI!

A lot of conversation has been going around about SE-0117 this week, as the proposal has entered its Active Review stage.

Testing the nitty gritty dirty innards of a lot of iOS apps has been difficult in the past.

I figured I'd put my hat in the ring here.

There's been a lot of drama among the iOS community these days relating to a variety of topics.

He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. -- Jason Fried on Jeff Bezos Tonight, Bill Nye and Ken Ham put on a bit of a show in Kentucky and on YouTube.