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Build tools, formatters, compilers and the scripts that save the busywork. 3 posts, newest first.
240 App Store Screenshots from One Script
7 min read
How I make App Store screenshots for my iOS apps in 15 languages without touching a design tool: debug launch arguments, one simulator per app, a pinned status bar, a Python framing step that handles right-to-left captions, and a linter for the listing text.
TypeScript 7: What Breaks Is the API, Not Your Code
4 min read
TypeScript 7's native tsc type-checked my apps six to nine times faster and flagged nothing new. What broke was every tool that imports the compiler: the typescript package no longer ships the JavaScript API. One repo moved; this blog can't yet.
Stamp DEV on the Debug Icon
4 min read
My Debug builds are their own app: a .dev bundle ID, a Dev name, and the real icon with a DEV ribbon a small script draws across the corner. They install beside the App Store version and never touch its data.