Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦

It’s bear season in my neighborhood

A deep dive into smarter SwiftUI toolbars in os 27: high and relative visibility priorities, always-overflow commands, pinned actions, status bar visibility, and tab bar minimization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZQwHyHSiM&feature=youtu.be

New Blog Post: Stop hunting through old projects for code you reuse. Learn how to create Xcode snippets with placeholders, completion shortcuts, practical scopes, and portable backups.
https://www.createchsol.com/blog/2026-09-23-creating-and-using-code-snippets-in-xcode.html

Waiting for my WDC Thunderbolt hub to come from Amazon so that I can clean up this mess. Migrating from an M2 pro Mac mini to an M5 Pro and wanting to make sure that everything connects as efficiently as possible

Great day for a cycle to Granville Island.

Learn how SwiftUI’s new item-bound alert APIs handle project values, messages, errors, confirmation dialogs, and enum-driven actions in iOS 27. https://youtu.be/l344y3ea4mI

Today I ship v75.0.
75 years of patches, upgrades, bug fixes, deprecated habits, and surprisingly few fatal errors.
Still compiling. Still shipping. Still learning.

When you get to be my age, you are allowed to be a little vain and celebrate your own birthday

My son and I are in Ireland and just had to do the Guinness tour and get our images laser printed on the pint.

I have a lot of work to do to catch up with my son. The tradition is that you are supposed to “split the G” on the Guinness label on your first gulp. Mine is on the left. They say if you sip Guinness, you aren’t drinking it properly.

This is why I continue to do what I do. I am pleased that my efforts don’t go unnoticed and that there is still a place for content creators.

Another site checked off my bucket list. The Cliffs of Moher.

Local AI. No API key. No subscription. No cloud. Just Apple's on-device Foundation Models accessed straight from Terminal using Apfel. This is worth knowing about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlCqHP32c8M&feature=youtu.be

And the craic was good.
Tig Choili pub in Galway, Ireland.
I am now a Guinness convert.

If you haven't already tried MyLinks for storing and sharing all of your web, email, social, phone and other links. Give it a try. It is free with no in-app purchases.
A lot more features coming soon/
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

Last night in Dublin at the famous Temple Bar

In case you miss the sign. I found the family homestead in Galway

GitHub, Xcode, Claude, ChatGPT... Markdown is everywhere in your workflow and you might not even know it. New video: a complete Markdown crash course for Swift developers 🎯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJyAMCLqMuQ&feature=youtu.be

RE: @patrickmcconnell@mastodon.social

Thanks for those kind words Patrick. I am trying to make a difference.

What powers ViewBuilder? Result Builders! And you can create them for ANY type. New video breaking it all down with Playgrounds and a real SwiftUI example. 🎯 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6KeYCqCFc&feature=youtu.be

Kissing the Blarney Stone is another one checked off the list.

Typing, texting, emailing? Sometimes a QR code is just easier.
MyLinks 1.2 lets you generate and display a QR code with a single swipe so others can instantly connect with you.
Completely free. No in-app purchases.

https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

New blog post is live! Learn how to generate a QR code from any string in SwiftUI—simple, practical, and ready for your next app. Read it here: https://www.createchsol.com/blog/2026-05-08-generating-a-qr-code-from-a-string-in-swiftui.html
🇮🇪 Off to Ireland today, so no Sunday video!

A great, sunny and warm day for cycling today from our house in North Vancouver over some bridges to Granville Island and back

Part 5 of my Swift Network Manager series is here 🚀
We go beyond GET requests and build real CRUD operations with POST, PUT, and DELETE using URLRequest, JSON payloads, headers, and auth tokens.
Build apps that actually talk to real APIs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqNyj8G7Fqk&feature=youtu.be

I am going to start writing more blog posts now since I have a web site that makes this easy to do. These will be for things that do not warrant a full video. Here is the first one.
Adding an Appearance Mode picker to a SwiftUI App.

https://www.createchsol.com/blog/2026-04-28-appearance-mode-changer.html

I built MyLinks to make sharing your information simple. Social profiles, emails, phone numbers, websites, QR codes, and more, all in one place. It’s free on iPhone and Mac, and everything syncs, so take it for a spin and see what you think. You have nothing to lose.
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

RE: @troz@mastodon.social

Thanks for sharing. Very thoughtful

Your links. One app. Zero cost.
MyLinks 1.2 for iPhone and Mac lets you store social profiles, emails, phone numbers, websites, and more in one place. Share instantly, create QR codes, and keep everything synced with iCloud.

https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

New features for MyLinks on Mac are coming soon. Search, custom sorting and QR code generation. A free app with no in-app purchases.
Get v1.1 now and be ready for the new release.
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

In case you missed it (I forget to make Video 5 public on Sunday), the entire 5 part series on cooking up a network manager series is now complete and available on YouTube. Video 5 adds the final touches.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBn01m5Vbs4CEzNr3k3KnzCoZFyP6go0N&si=Fsc8y7R5E91oB-Bh

MyLinks for iOS and macOS available now! Free and no in-app purchases.
Store commonly shared links in one location and choose who and how to share them.
Launch into links directly from the app.
Always in sync with iCloud.
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

MyLinks for macOS is a MenuBar app and shares the same data with the iOS app.
Create and store your links and use MyLinks as a launchpad to open and view the link content.
Pre-order - Coming May 2.

MyLinks App
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

MyLinks is more than a link sharing app. If you have an app that supports your link's url scheme, you can use it as a launcher to open and view.
MyLinks is available for pre-order on the App Store. It is free and coming on Saturday, May 2.

MyLinks App
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

Here is one more feature coming in MyLinks 1.2. Shortcuts and Siri app intents.
The app is free with no in-app purchases. Get it now and be ready for the new release.
MyLinks App
https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

I use @tapbots@tapbots.social Tapestry for Bluesky and Mastodon. On the iPhone I see crossposts notification, but not on iPad. Have I missed a setting on the iPad to enable this?

Thrilled that my app MyLinks got a shoutout on the Primary Technology Podcast/YouTube. Release date is Saturday so pre-orders are open. Absolutely free. No in-app purchases.

https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

Need drag-and-drop reordering in SwiftUI? This walkthrough covers the new iOS 27 API for Lists, LazyVGrid layouts, SwiftData sort order persistence, and moving items between sections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItELKlohWU&feature=youtu.be

I am confused. I thought that apps compiled with Xcode 27 (and with a 26 target) for iPhone only would show black bars on eithr side on iPhone Duo. Am I mistaken. See this video for more context.

Going to a conference soon and want to be able to quickly share links to your apps and other things?
Working on requested updates now.
Version 1.2 will be going to TestFlight soon followed by the App Store release.
Get version 1.1 now.

https://apple.co/4cCjCpE

I decided, because I cannot trust Apple and UPS to ever deliver new hardware to me on time, \ to have it shipped to the store. I spent $5000 on a new Mac Mini with delivery by today, Sept. 22. It is 4:00 pm and even if I do get notified it is too late for me to get to the store. I don’t get it.