With origins in web development, Swift and SwiftUI have always felt awfully hard to me. The overwhelming size of Xcode with all its bells and whistles, different structures and workflows are merely the start of an extensive list. But, I have decided to take another cold plunge.
Today, I enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. It felt like a greater commitment than just another unfinished Xcode project. And, with the help of Claude, I managed to distribute the first build of the “Saman Archive” app to TestFlight.
With very limited functionality, it is able to display the latest posts from the Archive and, in a modal view, a new entry with limited data inputs can be created. It’s far from greatness, and even further from apps like Family, Thoughts, Unhinged or Reeder. But everyone has to start somewhere.
So, this will be my playground for the foreseeable future, and I might document failures and insights sporadically on this site.
