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Two years after Liquid Glass, UIKit compatibility is still a mess. From a production app: pitfalls, bugs, and workarounds for UIBarButtonItem, UITabBarController, WKWebView, and Stepper on iOS 26–27. by @megabits-studio.bsky.social fatbobman.com/en/posts/li...

Liquid Glass - A Field Guide to UIKit Compatibility Pitfalls

Two years after Liquid Glass debuted, UIKit compatibility issues still remain. This article explores real-world pitfalls, bugs, workarounds, and adaptation strategies for UIBarButtonItem, UITabBarController, WKWebView, and Stepper on iOS 26 and iOS 27.

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #146 is now available! It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger 🔭 Bluetooth in Swift Concurrcy 🧷 Working with Xcode on CI 📈 tswift: A Swift Runtime Built with Rust weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146

It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #145 is now available! When Inspiration Outruns the Results 🔭 Geometry, Compositing and Drawing Groups 🧷 Swift 6 LLM Benchmark ⚡ Public Asset Symbol 🔍 Previews and MCP 📈 What's an Icon in 2026? more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #145 is now available! When Inspiration Outruns the Results 🔭 Geometry, Compositing and Drawing Groups 🧷 Swift 6 LLM Benchmark ⚡ Public Asset Symbol 🔍 Previews and MCP 📈 What's an Icon in 2026? more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #145

When Inspiration Outruns the Results

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #144 is now available! When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price 🔭 Swift Task lifetime when an iOS device is locked 🧷 anyAppleOS in Swift 6.4 ⚡ The Anatomy of a Reusable SwiftUI View more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #144

When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #144 is now available! When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price 🔭 Swift Task lifetime when an iOS device is locked 🧷 anyAppleOS in Swift 6.4 ⚡ The Anatomy of a Reusable SwiftUI View more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #144

When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #143 is now available! When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters 🔭 Debugging Notes on Two SwiftUI Animation Bugs 🔧 SwiftUI 3D is Flat 🔍 Safari MCP 🔥 SwipeCell weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #143 is now available! When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters 🔭 Debugging Notes on Two SwiftUI Animation Bugs 🔧 SwiftUI 3D is Flat 🔍 Safari MCP 🔥 SwipeCell weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #143

When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #142 is now available! SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting 🔭 Bring Swift to The APPLE II ⚡ SwiftUI Is One Graph 🌞 iOS-Simulator-Camera-Extend more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #142

SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting

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SwiftUI makes animations easy—until they don’t behave. When they break, a declarative framework can be harder to debug than an imperative one. Here are two SwiftUI animation bugs I hit recently, and how I diagnosed them. fatbobman.com/en/posts/de...

Debugging Notes on Two SwiftUI Animation Bugs

How I tracked down two SwiftUI animation bugs: an iOS 27 parent-view rebuild that breaks explicit animation, and a ternary-vs-if/else Image glitch in List.

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #142 is now available! SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting 🔭 Bring Swift to The APPLE II ⚡ SwiftUI Is One Graph 🌞 iOS-Simulator-Camera-Extend more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #142

SPI Joins Apple, and Swift Moves Toward Self-Hosting

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #141 is now available! Is Anyone Else Excited by Swift’s Progress as a Language? 🧷 Swift 6.4: What’s New in Concurrency ⚡ Apple Internals: Swift in the Kernel 🌞 SwiftOS more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #141

Is Anyone Else Excited by Swift’s Progress as a Language?

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #141 is now available! Is Anyone Else Excited by Swift’s Progress as a Language? 🧷 Swift 6.4: What’s New in Concurrency ⚡ Apple Internals: Swift in the Kernel 🌞 SwiftOS more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #141

Is Anyone Else Excited by Swift’s Progress as a Language?

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After WWDC 26, iPhone apps can run in resizable environments. horizontalSizeClass is still reliable, but it is no longer a width sensor. I wrote about how Apple’s layout model is shifting from device type to available space. #SwiftUI #UIKit #WWDC26 fatbobman.com/en/posts/fr...

From Size Class to Available Space - Is horizontalSizeClass Still Reliable?

WWDC 26 makes iPhone apps resizable. Learn why horizontalSizeClass is no longer a width sensor and how SwiftUI/UIKit layout is shifting to available space.

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After WWDC 26, iPhone apps can run in resizable environments. horizontalSizeClass is still reliable, but it is no longer a width sensor. I wrote about how Apple’s layout model is shifting from device type to available space. #SwiftUI #UIKit #WWDC26 fatbobman.com/en/posts/fr...

From Size Class to Available Space - Is horizontalSizeClass Still Reliable?

WWDC 26 makes iPhone apps resizable. Learn why horizontalSizeClass is no longer a width sensor and how SwiftUI/UIKit layout is shifting to available space.

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #140 is now available! Swift Weekly WWDC26 Special: Explore Swift 6.4, iOS 27, SwiftUI, and SwiftData updates. Discover Xcode 27 Agent Skills, AI developer tools, and expert community insights. weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #140

WWDC 26: AI Watched It for You — Now What?

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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #140

WWDC 26: AI Watched It for You — Now What?

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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #139

First Impressions of WWDC 2026: In Line with Expectations, but More Pragmatic

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #139 is now available! First Impressions of WWDC 2026 🔭 Core Data + Observation 🧷 Bringing Goodnotes to the Web with Swift and WebAssembly ⚡ Announcing the Networking Workgroup 🔍 Apple-like weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #139

First Impressions of WWDC 2026: In Line with Expectations, but More Pragmatic

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Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #138 is now available! Stability > New Features 🧷 Stateless Actors ⚡ Building a Custom Data Store in SwiftData 🔧 Task Names in Swift Concurrency 🖥 Letting Server-Side Swift Access CloudKit more... weekly.fatbobman.com/p/fatbobman...

Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #138

Stability > New Features

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Tired of `ObservedObject` for deep Core Data relations in SwiftUI? CDE now brings SwiftData-like MainActor Observation to `NSManagedObject`. Explore the design choices, timing races, and suppressing CloudKit/PHT echoes: fatbobman.com/en/posts/co...

Core Data + Observation - From Property-Level Reactivity to a Freer Mental Model

Bring SwiftData-like Observation to Core Data with CDE. Discover how to achieve property-level tracking in SwiftUI and solve key engineering challenges.

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Tired of `ObservedObject` for deep Core Data relations in SwiftUI? CDE now brings SwiftData-like MainActor Observation to `NSManagedObject`. Explore the design choices, timing races, and suppressing CloudKit/PHT echoes: fatbobman.com/en/posts/co...

Core Data + Observation - From Property-Level Reactivity to a Freer Mental Model

Bring SwiftData-like Observation to Core Data with CDE. Discover how to achieve property-level tracking in SwiftUI and solve key engineering challenges.

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