Posts from '2025' - 2
Reverse Engineering Better MapKit Tile Overlays
Despite nearly 15 years of developing iOS apps on a daily basis, it’s occasionally jarring to go back to some of the older APIs. Today's blog is about MapKit, which isn't quite as old as CoreGraphics, but dates back to iOS 3.0! It was a bit slimmer b ... read more →
Databases as an Alternative to Application Logging
In my work, I've been doing a lot of ETL pipeline design recently for our geocoding system. The system processes on the order of a billion records per job, and failures are part of the process. We want to log these. Most applications start by dumping ... read more →
The rust-toolchain.toml file
This isn't so much a TIL as a quick PSA. If you're a Rust developer and need to ensure specific things about your toolchain, the rust-toolchain.toml file is a real gem! I don't quite remember how, but I accidentally discovered this file a year or two ... read more →