The components I’ve been announcing recently certainly hinted at what I’m working on at the moment. A bash playground that lets me exercise SwiftBash, SwiftScript and SwiftPorts all tied together via ShellKit. There was one part that was on my private repo: the agentic harness and pure Swift wrappers for OpenAI APIs. I kept thinking that if I wanted to eventually make my Bash Playground public, then I needed to also have this final part on GitHub as well.
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Kvitto
Allows parsing and validation of iTunes App Store receipts. Receipts also contain the In App Purchase receipts. For auto-renewable subscriptions the subscription expiration date is available.
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SpeakerClock
Big red LED digits allow you to see the timer even at great distance so you are free to move while you give the talk of your life. SpeakerClock emulates the famous countdown clock that all speakers at TED conferences need to adhere to.
The latest version is a universal app with HD-support for iPad, multiple presets and lots of usability enhancements. New portrait support allows you to put your iPhone/iPad in the cradle and still use SpeakerClock. Now the whole screen flashes if you transition into a new phase of your speech.
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My Outer Loop
There is a thing that happens, after a couple of weeks of working with coding agents at a steady pace, where you stop thinking of yourself as the person typing and start thinking of yourself as the person seeing. The Latin word for vision is visio, “I see”; the Italian visione and English vision both keep that. It’s a much older idea than the modern “mission statement on a slide” usage. It means: I have, in my head, a picture of where this should go.
Read moreLook What JavaScriptCore Has Been Doing in My Pocket
I’ll be honest. When I started thinking about which other languages SwiftBash should run, JavaScript was about fifth on my list. I’m a Swift person. I’m a Cocoa person. I’m somewhere between indifferent and faintly hostile to npm. The idea of “let’s drop a Node-compatible runtime into the bash shell” sounded exactly like the kind of project I would shake my head at on someone else’s GitHub.
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The word Cocoanetics comes from the words Cocoa (the framework we use to program iOS apps) and Genetics (to build, make up). It simply states that we have living and breathing iOS development a level even deeper than “in your blood”.
Our apps and parts are often experiments, mostly pieces of art, but always carefully handcrafted. We’re still learning and getting better at coding every day. You benefit from this because our code gets better all the time and we share what we learn on our blog.
