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TL;BR #001
too long; blishtan read — the week's best iOS dev posts, with my take.
Foreword
TL;BR is the result of me constantly updating my colleagues with iOS-related news. The time has come, and I’m going public.
No, that’s not a typo: the B in TL;BR is on purpose. It’s a play on words: Too Long; Blishtan Read.
Enjoy my favorite articles and news I gathered last week!
Xcode Projects for the Command Line and Coding Agents
Xcode 27.2 comes with an option to switch to the
xcproj format, a lightweight JSON file that replaces the old pbxproj. Artem walks through the whole setup of a new project, from scratch, on the command line.VMPal — Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents
Lately, I’ve been wondering how to separate iOS development on my main machine (a MacBook Pro) from the environment my agents run in. VMPal caught my attention, and I’ll definitely give it a try.
SwiftUI Performance: Find Redraws in Xcode Instruments
A step-by-step tutorial on checking SwiftUI performance in Xcode Instruments. I’ve run into SwiftUI performance issues myself, so the timing of this article couldn’t be better.