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Actually hitting 120fps on a Photos app clone
Some days you wake up and think, “Today I’m gonna be margarine. You won’t believe it’s not butter. I’ll ship a screen so silky smooth they’ll think it was powered by Morgan Freeman’s voice.”
An Instruments-flavoured optimisation deep-dive.
Launch time is the most impactful metric you never optimise.
Every year I tell myself I’m gonna watch lots of WWDC videos, and every year I bookmark about 70 and watch about three.
But this year is actually different, because I’ve found a way to turn the WWDC grind into a side project. If you can’t...
The full silicon story: from Apple I to M5 (and beyond!)
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A playbook for returning to normalcy
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