Coding
I really enjoy vibe coding as it has become to be known. Claude Code to be specific. It really helps me push along my iOS app nicely. Not very cheap, but also not outrageously expensive for the amount of productivity I get from it.
I’m playing with how far I can push Cursor AI to build an iOS app. 2 views down and it worked great. Still all basic stuff, but works nicely. On the third view it fell over though. I had a calendar on the left and the day’s data on the right. Cursor couldn’t get the data to update based on the date.
I‘ve seen a couple of established iOS developers gripe about SwiftUI and that they should have stuck with UIKit. Would you advise someone starting out with iOS development and zero Swift experience to use UIKit as well? Or is it more of an old dog, new tricks kind of issue?
I now have my own Python module to write Safari WebArchives. Neat. And not too hard to implement.
So now Links also saves a WebArchive copy and triggers a Wayback savepoint.
I rewrote my webcatcher Python script yesterday. It is now leaner, meaner and more resilient against failed downloads. Links is coming together nicely. Pretty much all that is left is a nicer CSS for mobile devices and a web daemon so I can send stuff to Links from my iPhone.
Trying to decide between Trafilatua, Newspaper 4K and Readabilty for my Markdown and PDF creation.