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  • Understanding how app startup works
    March 2, 2026

    Understanding how app startup works

    According to Apple’s guidelines, applications launch should take approximately 400 ms. When exactly should we measure the app’s startup time?

  • Wanted to measure my app but all I got is this post ft. OSSinposter
    January 22, 2026

    Wanted to measure my app but all I got is this post ft. OSSinposter

    Recently, I started digging deeper into app performance analysis, and at first I assumed things weren’t that bad. But as with most performance work, once you start measuring, reality looks very different. While exploring Apple’s tooling, I came across OSSignposter, a framework that -when paired with Instruments – provides precise insight into how long your app spends doing real…

  • Journey to Become a Librarian or a Builder: Dynamic – part 2
    January 11, 2026

    Journey to Become a Librarian or a Builder: Dynamic – part 2

    In the previous part, we focused on static linking and briefly discussed the differences between frameworks and libraries. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at dynamic linking, how the dynamic linker (dyld) works, and how dynamic libraries and frameworks behave at runtime.

  • Journey to Become a Librarian or a Builder: Static – part 1
    November 12, 2025

    Journey to Become a Librarian or a Builder: Static – part 1

    In this series, I want to share some thoughts on how static, dynamic, and mergeable libraries work in the Apple ecosystem.

  • WWDC 2025 in person experience
    October 20, 2025

    WWDC 2025 in person experience

    My experience of being at WWDC 2025 in-person.

  • Live Activity – the problems (almost) no one speaks about
    October 5, 2023

    Live Activity – the problems (almost) no one speaks about

    The “live” activities

  • Database Disk Access Efficiency
    September 5, 2023

    Database Disk Access Efficiency

    So… apparently there’s a bad way to deal with database-disk synchronization

  • New blog up!
    September 5, 2023

    New blog up!

    A new blog… new issues. Problems aplenty!


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