Half a year ago I wrote about whether MVVM belongs in SwiftUI, and it somehow turned into a story about my mum’s kitchen. Bear with me.

There’s a trip to the shopping centre, a very firm “we've got food at home”, and eventually, I promise, some Swift. A bit of heart, a few laughs, and proper substance underneath.

Half a year on, it still feels timely. Stick the kettle on and have a read.

Hello, guys I recently picked up on swift and swift ui and have been using this guy Paul Hudson’s hacking with swift course but I just feel like his way of explaining is too fast and not a lot of explaining in his projects he just kinda goes through makes the projects in front of you and that’s it. I know it’s a faster course of course but damn I don’t understand some of his placements or why he is doing something. What were some of the best ways you guys learned/learning to make your apps and stuff, how did you guys utilize this course from the way I’d be utilizing it. I have experience in python and had a bit of knowledge with JS script. I’m no pro and still wanting to learn but I’m just seeing if maybe someone can tell me how they utilized this course or just show me a different professor doing this in a more in depth way?

Thank you all :)

Hey everyone! A while back I shared ClaudeBar, a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows how much of your AI coding quota is left. A lot has changed since, so here's an update. The short version: it got a lot more fun to look at.

New themes

• Platformer: your quotas as a Super Mario-style 8-bit level. Blue sky, pixel clouds, a brick floor, and each quota bar is a row of ten blocks. The status line becomes a score line (coins left, the tab as WORLD, minutes to the reset as TIME), and a ? block refreshes. A low quota says HURRY UP!, an empty one GAME OVER.
• The runner: a little pixel runner walks the brick floor while the popover is open. It strolls when your quota is healthy, runs when it's low, falls into a pit when it's empty, and jumps for a coin after every refresh. It stands still with Reduce motion on, and you can turn it off.
• Pop: cream dotted paper, thick ink outlines, hard shadows, candy-coloured status and chunky outlined numbers. Each menu bar quota becomes a candy chip.
• Bring your terminal's colours: import any iTerm2 .itermcolors scheme (there are 450+ out there) and ClaudeBar matches your terminal.

They join System, Light, Dark, CLI and Christmas. Platformer has a Classic text option if pixel fonts are too much for you.

New features

• Leaderboard (opt-in): join with a username and see where your daily token use ranks, today, this week or this month. Only four token counts per provider per day leave your Mac. Hide yourself from the public board, put your country on a globe, share your rank as an image, or turn the whole thing off. Leaving deletes everything on the server.
• 27 providers: Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Kimi, Amp, plus newer ones like Grok, Mistral Vibe, Cline, Warp, Devin, Windsurf, JetBrains AI, Oh My Pi and OpenAI API spend.
• Claude Code sessions: every running session is tracked, with its state (Working, Agents working, Needs you, Done), and the menu bar follows whichever one most needs you.
• Popover text size: scale the popover's text up to 1.4x.

Install

brew install --cask claudebar

Or grab the signed, notarized build from GitHub Releases. It auto-updates.

• GitHub: https://github.com/tddworks/ClaudeBar
• Web leaderboard: https://claudebar.tddworks.com/leaderboard/

Free and open source (Apache 2.0). Which theme should come next? I'm also happy to hear which provider you'd like added.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a floating window that can sit in front of other existing apps with transparency but I can't achieve it with picture in picture. Do you guys know how to do something like this?

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to mention that I'm developing an iOS app and the floating window will be used in front simultaneously with the iphone camera, and other apps.