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Ashton

@AshtonDev@mastodon.social
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iOS Developer 📲

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Joined August 13, 2018
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · May 17, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @rmondello@hachyderm.io
@rmondello@hachyderm.io thanks for sharing. It would be great if iOS could explain this somehow. Often hear complaints from non-tech users that apps are spying on them when it’s actually a privacy feature. passkeys get misunderstood as sharing biometric data. Great tech but no one knows 🥲
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

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Replying to @slava@mathstodon.xyz
@slava@mathstodon.xyz that purple one
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 30, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social
@mattiem@mastodon.social running a task with a timeout should be easier. It’s a good chunk of boilerplate or a package. Should be in stdlib right?
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

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Replying to @carnage4life@mas.to
@carnage4life@mas.to where is Ja?!
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

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Time to drop Cursor.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Allow “cursor-vscode” to access Xcode?

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @AshtonDev@mastodon.social
A lot of tools are wasting tokens(money) and compute(environment), but xcodebuild has to be one of the worst offenders. A successful build at work can generate a dense 300,000+ lines of log output. Which xcsift condenses down to just a few lines of json.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

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RE: @tonyarnold@mastodon.social

This is a great tip I’ve only introduced into my workflow in the last couple of weeks. Subagent using cheaper model, Xcode Skill that uses MCP in the main worktree and xcodebuild | xcsift in other worktrees and as a fallback.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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If I may, have we considered using AI to solve this problem?

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Slop.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Xcode’s xcode-tools MCP server keeps erroring or returning 0 tools to Cursor 😡 Have added prompt to let me know so I can restart it but it still sucks

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @PeteGoldsmith@mastodon.social
@PeteGoldsmith it’s lovely out there ☔️
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Everything is slop now. I’m going outside.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @sindresorhus@mastodon.social
@sindresorhus@mastodon.social kudos for providing all of this for free
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 21, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @tonyarnold@mastodon.social
@tonyarnold @adamc @rudrank Xcode and worktrees is a tough one. I generally have work tree agents do a plan and code without running any build or Xcode stuff, until I merge the work tree into my real working copy for review and testing. I guess our tools aren’t aware of worktrees so there are no optimizations to reuse cached builds from other trees 🤔 can tuist do this?
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 20, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social
Replying to @adamc@aus.social
@adamc @rudrank when it works it’s great. Faster than xcodebuild and can read results of your own actions in Xcode. I sometimes use both Cursor and Xcode at the same time. In Xcode I have a keybind behavior script to open the current file in Cursor. In Cursor I have a key bind to an extension I found to open in Xcode. So switching is easy. Still tuning the workflow.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 20, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @rudrank@mastodon.social
@rudrank I use auto most of the time, so probably Composer and Sonnet
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 19, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social

Cursor doesn’t seem to eagerly want to use xcode-tools mcp without my saying so, and still wants to use xcodebuild. Should I be using a skill or something to make it use it the MCP by default?
cc @rudrank@mastodon.social

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 19, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

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@schwa@mastodon.social are you using it for code? in Xcode?

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Jonathan Wight (@schwa@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social
Replying to @bbech@mastodon.social
@bbech kids are taught/learn that popup subscription or upsell screens are danger. The iPad has all the parental controls on, but it still needs to show these screens huh can’t miss an opportunity for revenue.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @AshtonDev@mastodon.social
@CodingItWrong @marcoarment I thought these apps being presinstalled and free was a huge selling point 🤷 How long until they charge for the OS again, money left on the table
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social
Replying to @nicklockwood@mastodon.social
@nicklockwood when we went it was bring your own or use theirs, that’ll be fun! It’s such a contrast to Apple Arcade which I think is great, especially for kids as all the apps have no upsells or ads. In both cases Apple is selling me another subscription, but only one is done well.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Replying to @AshtonDev@mastodon.social
The Apple Store near me used to run a session for kids where they made a comic book in Keynote. I can’t imagine how that session would go now.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social

The Apple Creator Studio subscription has ruined once great and kid friendly iPad apps like Keynote and Pages. Half the buttons prompt you to upgrade, the subscription and premium AI features are pushed HARD.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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@ryanbooker@mastodon.social
“That’s done.”
Wait what is done? What did you just do?
“OK”

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social

Whatever efficiency gains I make with AI are immediately wasted by others using AI. What is this paradox?

In software engineering we generally wouldn’t subject “vibe coded” work on others, and self review has existed as a discipline before all this. This doesn’t seem to exist in other roles, and throwing slop over the fence for someone else to review is more common.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social
Replying to @mattiem@mastodon.social
@mattiem I would hope to never ask or answer one, but it could be by accident. Let’s say it’s for just for fun.
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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social

Has anyone compiled a list of trick interview questions where the answer depends on Swift 5 vs 6, Main Actor Default or Not, Approachable Concurrency or not, etc. Asking for a me.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

mastodon.social

The Xcode 26.3 MCP server is kinda broken? Using`xcrun mcpbridge` the DocumentationSearch response doesn’t match it’s own schema.

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Ashton @AshtonDev@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2025
Ashton
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social

iOS Developer 📲

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Looks like apple-app-site-association files can now be served with a 307 redirect? 🤨

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