100 Days of SwiftUI
2026-07-14
Time for SwiftData
This is an extension to Day 60, which I did not complete and likely never will, so ditto Day 61.
Time for… confession? introspection?
I’m going to keep doing the basic tutorials because there’s a lot of basic information that I want to be at least passing familiar with, but I’m going to stop doing the unfun parts.
I am never going to be able to create an app from ground up, and frankly I’ve never been interested in doing programming from scratch.
However, I have been playing with Codex, and it is allowing me to talk about the fun stuff — What should my app do? What should it look like? — without being frustrated at my inability to find the exact set of magic words to make it happen.
Working with it has its own frustrations of course, but it’s less about me being dense than it being dense, which is preferable for my mental health.
I made an app to help me solve Apple News’s Quartiles game. There’s almost always 1 or 2 words I can’t find which is annoying. There’s an awesome subreddit that is basically one person posting the complete solution every day which I have frequently looked at, but for some reason that feels more like “cheating” than me using my little app to find candidate words.
This is not something I would pay someone to make for me. I’m still not sure where my line is with respect to using AI — art definitely not, but stuff for myself? I don’t know.