Daniel Saidi is a freelance engineer specializing in app and product development for Apple platforms. He writes and builds open-source tools focused on Swift, SwiftUI, and modern iOS/macOS development.
100 articles from this blog
A developer announces a shift in blog focus from covering Swift/SwiftUI news to sharing personal project learnings, failures, and authentic development experiences.
Introducing FlipKit, a new open-source SwiftUI library for creating animated flip views on Apple platforms.
A guide comparing Swift enums and structs, explaining when to use each for state management and extensibility in iOS development.
A technical guide on how to add dependencies to binary Swift Package targets, which normally cannot define them directly.
A guide to extending SwiftUI's Text view with custom dynamic styling for individual words or segments using replacements and Markdown.
Announcing a talk at iOSKonf25 on distributing and monetizing closed-source SDKs using Swift Package Manager.
A developer reflects on the 13-year journey of maintaining Wally, a digital wallet app, through iOS updates and design shifts.
A quick guide to enabling case-insensitive file and folder autocomplete in the macOS Terminal by editing the .zshrc file.
Explains how the new SwiftUI @Entry macro simplifies creating custom environment values, making the EnvironmentKit library obsolete.
Blog author removes Disqus commenting due to intrusive, irrelevant ads, replacing it with social media discussion links.
A tutorial on implementing a debounced search context in SwiftUI to improve performance by reducing unnecessary network calls during user input.
A guide to creating lightweight utility apps using SwiftUI Previews within Xcode, eliminating the need for separate app installations.
A guide to creating a SwiftUI Text view that mixes plain text with tappable links using Markdown, including a custom LinkText component.
Fixing Xcode 16.1's Swift package fetch failure caused by a global Git configuration change.
A guide to replacing Fastlane automation with custom Shell scripts for building and testing Swift packages, aiming for faster builds.
Introducing GestureButton, a new open-source SwiftUI component for handling custom gestures in iOS development.
Analyzes the growing complexity of the Emoji standard, focusing on skin tone, gender, and direction variants, and discusses Apple's unprecedented removal of some emojis in iOS 17.4.
A SwiftUI tutorial on creating a reusable enum to streamline standard button types (add, delete, edit) with localization support.
Explains how to create custom environment values in SwiftUI, covering the standard method and noting updates from WWDC24.
A SwiftUI tutorial on creating a custom LabelStyle to tint only the icon, leaving the text color unchanged.
