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Building My First App — JiffyCV

My first ever app — JiffyCV — is now in beta! Here’s the story about how it came to be, the approach I took to make it and what I’ve…

Dec 18, 2020

Building My First App — JiffyCV

Dec 18, 2020

Using Tree Sitter to extract insights from your code and drive your development metrics

Your codebase is constantly evolving so how do you gain insights from that code in a reliable and resilient way so you can track change?

6d ago

Using Tree Sitter to extract insights from your code and drive your development metrics

6d ago

Creating a landing page for my app using Llama 3.2, Figma, Astro and Netlify

My app is now in beta and I needed a landing page to explain my app and get people to sign up. Here’s how I did it

Dec 15

Creating a landing page for my app using Llama 3.2, Figma, Astro and Netlify

Dec 15

Testing my product’s features with CutwormBDD and Swift

I’ve been using Gherkin feature files to define the functionality of my app and build my prototypes & analytics. And now testing too!

Dec 8

Testing my product’s features with CutwormBDD and Swift

Dec 8

Implementing qualitative analytics for your SwiftUI app with PostHog

Measuring how users are using your app’s features is a key step to building a product, PostHog is a great tool for doing this

Nov 29

Implementing qualitative analytics for your SwiftUI app with PostHog

Nov 29

What I done did in November 2024

Winter is coming

Nov 23

Nov 23

My experience and thoughts on setting up Xcode Cloud on a fresh project

My first task when starting work on my app was to ensure that I could get the changes I made onto phones. I chose Xcode Cloud for this job

Nov 17

My experience and thoughts on setting up Xcode Cloud on a fresh project

Nov 17

Why I’m choosing Gherkin over Jira to define my app’s functionality

Jira is great but it creates an overhead that can actually impede progress towards building a great app

Nov 3

Why I’m choosing Gherkin over Jira to define my app’s functionality

Nov 3

What I done did in October 2024

It’s been right scary

Oct 27

Oct 27

Chunking a List by DateComponent in SwiftUI with swift-algorithm

A chunked list makes scrolling easier as you can use the sections as anchors, here’s how to implement chunking using swift-algorithms

Oct 20

Chunking a List by DateComponent in SwiftUI with swift-algorithm

Oct 20

Colin Wren

Colin Wren

Currently building reciprocal.dev. Interested in building shared understanding, Automated Testing, Dev practises, Metal, Chiptune. All views my own.

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