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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi, I'm Majid. I’m an indie developer building apps for iOS, watchOS, visionOS, and all other Apple platforms.

I mostly build health-related apps like CardioBot, allowing you to understand and improve heart metrics.

I try to share my experiences by writing blog posts.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve decided to share my experience with Jujutsu VCS — not a martial art, but a Git‑compatible version control system. I’ve switched to it for all my projects and have a lot to say.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/10/15/i...

Introducing Jujutsu VCS

I’ve decided to share my experience with Jujutsu VCS — not a martial art, but a Git‑compatible version control system. I’ve switched to it for all my projects and have a lot to say.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 2d

Hero animations are great that's why SwiftUI introduced the matchedTransitionSource view modifier. It works like a magic and allows us to preserve the geometry between views in the navigation stack.
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Harshil @harshil.net · 2d

Slow Horses is the best show you're not watching

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 3d

The visual effect is anything that can change the visual appearance of the view but doesn’t affect its layout. visualEffect view modifier allows us to attach a set of animatable visual effects by accessing layout information of the particular view.
swiftwithmajid.com/2023/11/07/v...

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Matrix @matrixfurry.com · 10d

I finally got the time to check out Jujutsu today, and I absolutely LOVE it. It's a very powerful tool.

So many things that were difficult and/or tedious to do in Git are much, much easier to do. It really helps keep your project history clean and easy to understand.

github.com/jj-vcs/jj

GitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 5d

To be honest nothing special here. Why someone may need to use jj and git simultaneously on the local machine? Just keep in mind that jj works in detached head.

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Aaron Christiansen @aaronc.cc · 11d

Having a play with Jujutsu VCS: jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

You can move back to a previous commit and edit it, and all the later commits rebase automatically… coming from Git, that feels MAGIC

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 5d

What do you mean by "it might work"? I use jj daily with a git repo and don't have any problems yet.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 6d

Streaming transforms how we interact with Foundation Models, shifting from static responses to dynamic, real-time experiences. By leveraging the streamResponse API, we can progressively display model output as it’s generated.
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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve already discussed the fundamental concepts of Foundation Models and their structured outputs. This week, we’ll delve into the process of streaming the partial results generated by the model.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/10/08/b...

Building AI features using Foundation Models. Streaming.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 7d

The Observations type conforms to the AsyncSequence protocol, allowing us to use instances inside asynchronous for-loops. The closure that initializes the Observations instance implicitly observes all touched properties of observable instances.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/07/30/s...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 8d

Almost every feature I’m working on has a feature flag for enabling it in debug and TestFlight builds. Since I merge branches even when the feature isn’t fully implemented, I use feature flags to temporarily disable them.
swiftwithmajid.com/2025/09/16/f...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 10d

The bottom sheet API in SwiftUI is simple. Attach the presentationDetents view modifier to the sheet’s content. You pass an array of available sizes, allowing users to resize the sheet by dragging.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/07/19/b...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 13d

Assume you have a throwing function that might throw an error in a specific case and want to test that behavior. The expect macro allows you to verify the function’s throwing behavior and inspect the error to confirm it’s the desired error case.
swiftwithmajid.com/2024/10/22/i...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 14d

There is a special NavigationStack initializer accepting a binding to a mutable collection. SwiftUI maps values of the mutable collection into a view hierarchy and allows us to push and pop views into the NavigationStack programmatically.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/06/21/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 15d

SwiftUI introduced APIs, allowing us to recompose complex view hierarchies, including sections. Similarly to the subviews parameter, SwiftUI defines another overload on the ForEach type, allowing us to enumerate sections.
swiftwithmajid.com/2024/10/01/m...

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 15d

Definitely

Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 15d

And visionOS.

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 16d

You can always check whenever the platform you are running supports multiple window environments using the supportsMultipleWindows environment value.
swiftwithmajid.com/2022/11/02/w...

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 16d

SwiftUI introduced the ScrollGeometry type with the onScrollGeometryChange view modifier to accurately read content offset. It provides properties like content offset, bounds, container size, visible rectangle, content insets, and content size.
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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 20d

The searchFocused view modifier binds the focus of a search field created with the searchable view modifier. It functions like the focused view modifier, but only affects the text field in the current view hierarchy’s search bar.
swiftwithmajid.com/2021/08/24/m...

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 20d

Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️

forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

Introducing Swift Configuration

Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 21d

Coding agents are gaining popularity, but UI and unit tests have become even more powerful. Whenever agents make changes to a UI feature, I request that they run UI tests to ensure that everything functions as intended.
swiftwithmajid.com/2021/03/18/u...

UI Testing in Swift with XCTest framework

I’m not going to talk about the importance of testing in general, but I want to talk about UI testing. One obvious benefit of UI testing over Unit Testing is the opportunity to write UI tests even…

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 22d

My favorite thing about Jujutsu VCS is the absorb command. It move changes from a source revision into its mutable ancestors: splits by file paths & last edits. It uses blame to find suitable changes.
jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/cl...

CLI reference - Jujutsu docs

Warning

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Majid Jabrayilov @mecid.bsky.social · 23d

Swift Charts framework allows us to select a single value and a range of values. We can use chartXSelection and chartYSelection with the binding of ClosedRange type to allow range selection.
swiftwithmajid.com/2023/07/18/m...