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Your Public Protocol Is Why the Whole App RecompilesA practical guide to why modularizing your Swift app can make builds slower — and how public surface, not module count, sets rebuild scope.swiftiosarchitecturedeveloper-tools -
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I Stopped Writing Better Prompts and Started Writing Better FilesHow moving project state to disk via Claude Code skills replaced a paste-the-brief-every-session workflow — and the small design choices that came out of building TStack.AIclaude-codeworkflow -
Introducing Forge: Dependency Injection for Swift That Gets Out of Your WayA walkthrough of Forge, an open-source Swift DI framework designed for clean injection, Xcode Previews, testability, and modular SPM architectures.swiftiosopen-sourcearchitecture -
The Three-Tool Workflow: Claude Code, Cursor, and Augment Code in PracticeHow Claude Code, Cursor, and Augment Code each fill a different niche, how to share config across them, and a practical hybrid workflow.AIworkflowCursorClaudeAugmenttooling