HeyJaredSide Project Spotlight
Side Project Spotlight is a podcast for app builders, documenting the process of producing real apps for the Apple App Store using Swift, SwiftUI, and other technologies.
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#119: Hello, John Apple (opens the original)
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John Ternus is Apple’s new CEO, and The Trio have a wish list ready. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron size up his practical hardware legacy, imagine a stronger developer story for the age of bespoke AI-built apps, and ask whether Apple’s first foldable iPhone can justify its compromises and rumored $2,000-plus price. ## Chapters 00:00:00 Hello, John Apple 00:11:24 What Apple Should Fix 00:15:06 The Future of Apps 00:22:10 Vibe Coding a Better Jira 00:28:02 The Foldable iPhone 00:31:01 Touch ID and Camer
#118: Even LLMs Hate Jira with Bill Atkins (opens the original)
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Bill Atkins put a Mac mini in his spare room so local models can handle the coding chores he would rather skip, all without sending Stylebook's code to the cloud. Bill joins Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron to unpack his setup with OpenCode, Ollama, and Gemma, including SwiftUI migrations, crash-report utilities, RAM limits, and permission guardrails. Bill and The Trio also compare local models with their bigger cloud counterparts, explore Xcode's growing agentic toolkit, and confirm that even LLMs hate
#117: Assumption One: You’re a Hoarder (opens the original)
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The desktop has barely changed in decades, even as we’ve all become digital hoarders. Scott Jenson’s Local-First Conf talk, “How the Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep Up With Local First,” gives The Trio a jumping-off point to explore spatial window management, document context, customizable dashboards, private workflows, and the surprising return of widgets. Kotaro then catches the game development bug and weighs rebuilding Retro Sparkle against the much more ambitious idea of a mobile-first p
#116: BentoFit in the Loop (opens the original)
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Steve puts BentoFit in the loop, using agentic coding to add themes and straighten out the app's Swift package structure. The Trio digs into Mike Zornek's three-year AI-coding journey, the skills and harnesses shaping Steve's workflow, and why human judgment still matters when the robot says it is done. Even with better models in the driver's seat, Xcode always finds a way to keep things interesting. ## Chapters 00:00 Introductions 01:10 Side Projects & the AI Moment 07:38 Agentic Coding Tools &
#115: Jelly Pilled (opens the original)
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Steve drops serious cash on an M5 Max MacBook Pro right as Apple's Rampocalypse price hikes hit, then immediately bricks his iPhone 14 Pro Max installing iOS 27 Beta 3. The Trio unpacks Apple pulling the liquid glass opt-out after its promised one year, and spins out increasingly unhinged ideas for what a foldable iPhone's split screen could actually be good for. They close out with post-WWDC side project pitches: Kotaro weighing a Retro Sparkle or Fav 10 revival, Aaron dreaming up the ultimate
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