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Learn SwiftUI by Building a Recipe Book App for iOS & macOS
A step-by-step guide to building a modern SwiftUI Recipe Book app for iOS and macOS.
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SwiftUI @StateObject vs @ObservedObject: The ObservedOrStateObject Pattern
How we built ObservedOrStateObject to let SwiftUI views own or observe view models without duplicating code.
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SwiftUI Alerts: Fixing Bugs When Multiple Alerts Collide
SwiftUI silently ignored save error alerts once a second alert existed, and this post captures what we learned in the Advanced SwiftUI: Lessons From Mistakes series.
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SwiftUI @Published Crash: “Pointer Being Freed Was Not Allocated” Explained
During test teardown we hit a repeatable 'pointer being freed was not allocated' crash while deallocating a @MainActor ObservableObject, and this post explains why we treated it as a Swift runtime edge case instead of rewriting our architecture.
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SwiftUI @MainActor Initializers: Safe Default Parameters and Actor Isolation
After enabling stricter Swift concurrency checks, we started seeing main-actor isolation errors from @MainActor initializers that used default parameter values. This post explains why default parameter expressions are nonisolated and how to fix the pattern by moving defaults into the initializer body.
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DependencyContainer Malloc Crash in Tests – Post-Mortem
Under XCTest teardown we hit a repeatable 'pointer being freed was not allocated' malloc crash when deallocating async/Combine-heavy DependencyContainer and view models. This post explains what was happening and why we fixed it by deliberately leaking those objects in DEBUG tests only.
