Bugs are always a bummer, but it was nice to take a break from some of the feature work I was starting to spin my wheels on. Trying not to work too much during my parental leave, but also hoping to get these killer new features wrapped up soon.

5. A customer reported that the new button to add additional photos to an existing record wasn’t working. The code that this calls has been commented out by me at some point during testing and was left in that state for release. Damn. At least it was an easy fix:

I’m sure my prompt and context were totally different, and it may have helped that I removed the safe area at the top as part of this change. But perhaps Sonnet is getting a bit better at SwiftUI?

4. Getting the stretchy photo header in this detail view to “stick” to the top of the view was giving me hell. Claude was no use, so I left it in for 2.0. Tried again with Sonnet 4.5 and it was fixed in one shot.

3. Part of this view is a custom re-build of a standard SwiftUI form, to facilitate the stretchy photo header and custom scroll view. Took a little trial and error to get the section header text style right, but I settled on this which seems close enough.

2. Totally missed adding the capsule shape and glass effect to one of the most prominent buttons. Caught it when building my App Store screenshots, but couldn’t prioritize fixing it before the iOS 26 drop.

1. Liquid Glass did some interesting things to this toolbar... Seemed to be caused by an unnecessary toolbar spacer I was applying to all versions of iOS. Moved the spacer into the conditional to exclude iOS 26 and above and it went away.

First a huge shoutout to Jordan and the team at Superwall for giving us SwiftUI Backports. Glad I came across it before getting deep into my Liquid Glass implementation.

I’m staying optimistic that this is an incredible time to be alive. I don’t think there has been a better time be a builder. I’m not naive to the risks of misalignment, etc, but I’ll choose to worry about what’s in my control.

People have problems, and they’ll pay someone to solve them in the most efficient manner possible. Sure, they could ask AI to build the solution for them, but it won’t approach the problem with the same perspective as a human who has lived with that pain.

Yeah they are different goals for sure. More of a social or financial pursuit rather than creative. But it definitely lowers the barrier to getting out and playing live if that’s what a person is after.