Few weeks ago I had few free hours and hacked together a quick SwiftUI app that uses saagar’s unxip package to quickly unxip Xcode downloads. You can use saagar’s command line utility but I’m one for neat UIs so I wanted to have something to click around. Today I wrapped few loose ends and pushed the code to GitHub here: icanzilb/Unxippity. Here’s a very quick walkthrough the app. Note: This is a very quickly put together app experiment, use caution when using it. …

In this post I describe the technical setup of a small language experiment I developed to aid myself working on custom Xcode instruments. The need for a more flexible coding inside Xcode Last month, I prototyped a Swift IDE and became very interested in enhancing the experience of building with Swift. (Since Apple doesn’t hire remotely, I wonder what other companies are working in that area?) A little later, I came back to updating my custom Xcode Instrument called Timelane to support debugging new code based on the new Swift modern concurrency APIs: …