Recently, I've been playing a lot with AI agents, and it really inspired me to update my projects. Playing with real-life tasks makes it more fun.

Couchdb Swift client lib

There are 2 new releases of couchdb-swift library. Copilot kindly added more unit tests to the library to cover more use cases. Mostly failures. I still had to tweak a lot manually, but it gave me some ideas. So I've added more error handling in these 2 recent releases. Also, it found a couple of minor bugs and fixed them, reviewed my PR, and suggested some improvements. Far from being perfect yet, but still pretty impressive.

Release Informer Bot for Telegram

At some moment, I found that Copilot Agent is available for my account, and I can simply start with an issue on GitHub, assign it to the agent, and see what it will do. I've started with a request to update the README for Release Informer Bot with some nice details about how it works and how to set it up.

After the agent finished the updated README, it gave me another idea. Setting up might be automated. So I've opened Visual Studio Code and asked the Copilot agent to add automatic creation of the required database and set it up with the required CouchDB indexes.

It also did a good job, but it still required some manual tweaks and changes. And during that, it led to one more release of the CouchDB client lib because I wanted to rely on a proper "not found" error.

It's hard to tell how much time Copilot saved me. But definitely a lot. Including my favorite automatic string translations. Hopefully, that will inspire me to ship more.

Вышло обновление AppMetric версии 1.13.0. Теперь на Swift 6, слегка подправил UI и убрал открытие поповера при запуске (кроме первого запуска) — пришёл к выводу, что это скорее раздражает, особенно если приложение запускается автоматически после перезагрузки. Ну и добавил локализацию на несколько новых языков.

Recently, I’ve released a few new versions of the CouchDB client for Swift. The latest version is version 2, and it includes several key changes:

• Updated the minimum required Swift tools version to 6.0.
• Adopted Swift Concurrency. CouchDBClient has been updated to be an actor.
• Renamed the library from couchdb-vapor to couchdb-swift to better reflect its purpose as a general CouchDB client for Swift, beyond Vapor-specific use cases.
• Made some changes to the initializer. Instead of passing a lot of parameters, it now accepts a Config structure.
• You can pass your own HTTPClient instance to be used in the client.
• Added translations for error messages.
• Introduced a dedicated tutorial for integrating CouchDBClient with the Hummingbird server-side framework.
• Added a shutdown() method to properly release resources associated with the HTTPClient.

CouchDB Client on GitHub | Documentation with examples and tutorials.

In the previous article, I've explained how to add a Strings Catalog to a Swift package to support localizations. Now, we'll try to translate it into more languages.

Recently, I've been working on a Swift Package with some strings that I wanted to localize. Apple's documentation on this topic seems to be a bit outdated. The documentation still suggests using language-specific directories for localizing resources and strings.

But, at WWDC 2023, Apple introduced String Catalogs. It's much more handy - just a JSON file that Xcode can fill with all the strings that need to be localized. Most of the examples you can find are about apps, not packages. So, I've spent some time trying to figure out how to use String Catalogs in a Swift package.

One of the new features in macOS Sequoia is iPhone Mirroring. You can connect to your iPhone, see its screen and control it.

My Mac is using 2 folders to store apps: one is in the user folder ~/Applications, the second is the system applications folder at /Applications.

One day I created a search filter in Finder and saved it to have all the available apps in one place, also did put it to the sidebar in the Favourites section.

But also I love to have a shortcut in the Dock. So I've added a grid here too. It worked as I expected until I updated to macOS Sequoia and tried the iPhone Mirroring app once. Now the grid shows some apps from my iPhone too:

An interesting thing is that only Dock's grid shortcut shows the apps from my iPhone, but not the search in Finder.

And here comes the funny part - that's what you'll see if you will try to launch an app from your iPhone:

macOS 18.0 or later? Really? I wonder if that's some feature planned for a future macOS update. Will see :)

Вышло обновление для AppMetric, версия 1.12.0. Допиливал его в свободное время. Из нового в последних версиях:

• Ревьюверам Apple почему-то не нравится теперь OAuth-авторизация через Safari, пришлось переделать через встроенное окно с WKWebView. Надеюсь, в следующем SwiftUI наконец-то появится свой WebView, и больше не придется использовать обертку.
• Добавил кнопку для быстрого перехода на статистику приложения на сайте Appmetrica.
• Добавил просмотр статистики в виде графиков - как каждого показателя, так и всех показателей вместе. Всего спустя 7 лет после того, как один из пользователей попросил добавить графики :)
• Добавил перевод интерфейса на несколько языков. Благо, с помощью ИИ это сделать теперь совсем просто.