What would you do if it was cold and rainy during your holiday? Well, assuming you have a problem like me, you’d code of course! To make things better we’ve discovered an amazing place nearby that makes incredible cakes –they are really good in Poland overall, but this place is next level– and coffee. So …
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Settling down in the Bay & Starlight 1.0.4 is now live!
Back in August I posted about moving back to the Bay Area, and how that would temporarily reduce my bandwidth. Being honest, it was even more disruptive than anticipated. There was the move itself, but also searching for (and buying) a house, fixing its rough edges, furnishing it… And all that while working full time …
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Starting to code again :) on in app purchases :(
Although still very busy with the move from San Diego to Palo Alto I’m slowly but surely finding time here and there to code. Right now, working on finishing the in app purchase view for Starlight. I know, I know… Not the most exciting part, but still necessary. Here’s the latest screenshot, fresh off the …
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Starlight is alive!!!
It’s alive!! Go grab it now & Get Stuff Done 👊 The best part? Not only it will make you more productive, but its also free 🙂 More to come, Marc
Starlight has gone gold!
After over a year in the making – I’m excited to announce another signficant milestone: Starlight has gone gold! Its effectively ready to ship, what’s more, it’s also approved for sale by Apple — feels… pretty good With the app gone gold, I’m now switching to getting ready to ship! Among other things, that includes …
Building GPT from scratch
With all the talk & articles about GPT, a few weeks ago I decided to spend a couple days coding one from scratch. The training size can’t be the same (for $$$ reasons), but the model can follow a very similar architecture to the one used by GPT-3. As long as we narrow the training data, …
Leveraging Bing Chat as a development tool
Even though in their infancy, ChatGPT, Copilot & OPT are already impressive tools. The impact on how we work will be significant and, although expertise will still be critical, people who leverage AI will have an edge over people who don’t. I started increasingly using Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4 behind the scenes) to parse …
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Leveraging SF Symbols from code
SF Symbols are hugely helpful to help accelerate the development process, Apple has done an amazing job at providing a huge variety of them – all looking great & working well with one another. If you’re a developer and are not familiar with them, you’re missing out – go download them. One minor caveat to …
And just like that, MarsManaged has reached Beta!
After 18 months of work… …I’m excited to announce that MarsManaged has reached a major milestone, it’s now in Beta. In the following weeks I’ll be opening up more testing seats, can’t wait for your candid feedback -and bug reports-! Until then, here’s a sneak peak of the latest version of the app. CARD’s section: …
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Easily linking any AppKit or UIKit class with SwiftUI
After spending an embarrassing amount of hours trying to get TextField to do what I needed on macOS I decided to try NSViewRepresentable + NSTextField. I was fully prepared to spend the night on this… Yet I got it done in 30m 😮 Lesson learned! Going forward, when a SwiftUI object is not mature enough …
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