Before I figured out how to use macros to enable SwiftMCP, I experimented a lot with SwiftSyntax and built a project that I called SAAE – Swift AST Abstractor & Editor. Such it lay forgotten on a public GitHub repo. So I figured, it would deserve a new coat of paint and a better name.
Read moreMy last update post was just two weeks ago, but the pace hasn’t slowed down. If anything, it’s accelerated. The common thread? Real problems encountered while building real things — my client project, the Post mail daemon, and a surprise from Apple that I’ll get to at the end.
Read moreInstead of writing blog posts about individual package updates, I think I’ll be changing things up a bit. My agents do a better job than me in summarizing the changes for individual releases, so I will from now on group them together, referencing the release notes on GitHub.
Read moreAfter four months of intensive development, I’m thrilled to announce that SwiftMCP 1.0 is feature-complete and ready for you to use.
For those just joining, SwiftMCP is a native Swift implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The goal is to provide a dead-simple way for any developer to make their app, or parts of it, available as a powerful server for AI agents and Large Language Models. You can read the official specification at modelcontextprotocol.io.
I did a SwiftMCP 1.0 Feature Speed Run on YouTube, if that’s what you prefer.
Read moreThis is a maintenance release, after the previous one was more than a year old. There were a couple open pull requests which I merged.
Read moreYou can now fully operate SpeakerClock with no or low vision. We gave SpeakerClock the full Accessibility treatment. In this article I describe some of the things I learned adding accessibility features to SpeakerClock, now that it is fully written in SwiftUI.
Read moreI’ve been busy since I completely rewrote SpeakerClock in SwiftUI. That was version 1.2.0.
The App Store provides a concept called Universal Purchase, which is where purchasing an app on one device also unlocks it on all other supported platforms. In the previous version I added a Mac version. This update now adds the AppleTV version. Still a minor update, because the functionality is identical, yet all three versions benefit from improvements.
Read moreWhen I started out developing iOS apps, 11 years ago I put several apps on the App Store. Since they became fewer and fewer as the income from them didn’t warrant updating them. Amongst those my most successful one was iWoman, which I sold in 2015. My second-most-valuable (in terms of revenue) remained my beloved SpeakerClock, the last app standing.
Read moreFollowing the previous release, I received word that Apple had added a new kind of sales receipt which is used for IAP testing. This release adds support for those.
Read moreKvitto is an open source component that lets you parse Apple sales receipt files, for example to determine if the user has an active auto-renewing subscription on device.
This new release fixes an urgent issue that appeared the first time on September 24th, in iOS 14, where about half the sales receipts could not be parsed. I also added support for Swift Package Manager 2 weeks ago and had forgotten to announce the release, so there you go.
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