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• Today, I Did This
• Spring Boot with Kotlin (2025)

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December, 2025

• Extracting Only the Audio from a Video on iOS (Swift)
• Firebase for Your iOS App (with a Python/FastAPI Backend)
• Firebase for an iOS App Backend (with Auth, AWS S3 files, and an optional Python/FastAPI API)
  • Opinionated add-ons: how I’d build this in the real world
  • Deep dives and “my preferred way to implement it
  • Fully integrated: Dockerized FastAPI + Firebase Auth + Firestore + S3 (Cloud Run '''or''' ECS/Fargate)
  • Single end-to-end iOS Swift example (Firebase ID token → presign → S3 PUT → Firestore doc)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) — Practical Guide for Deploying Python APIs (FastAPI included)
• Apple Developer “Identifiers” and App Groups (for iOS devs)

November, 2025

• A Practical Guide to 'nonisolated' in Swift Concurrency
• Swift "@resultBuilder" — A Comprehensive Guide With Many Examples (2025)
• SwiftUI "@ViewBuilder" — a comprehensive guide (2025)
• Swift Macros in 2025: A Practical Guide
• Unified Logging System (ULS) for Swift Developers — A Production‑Grade Guide (iOS & macOS)
• Swift Logging for iOS & macOS — A Practical Guide
• Diagnosing Performance Issues in iOS Apps
• Swift Sendable: a practical, step‑by‑step guide (2025)
• Swift + Xcode Library: Build, Document & Share (Step-by-Step)

October, 2025

• The SwiftUI Observation Guide: @Observable, @Bindable, and Friends (2025 Edition)
• Media Playback Programming for iOS & macOS (Step-by-Step, with runnable code)
• How to Create a macOS Shortcut to Instantly Insert Today’s Date Anywhere
• Copyable vs Noncopyable in Swift — A Friendly, Step‑by‑Step Guide
• Git Sparse-Checkout — A Friendly Guide (with --cone vs non-cone)
• Building and Shipping a Safari Web Extension on macOS (Manifest V3, 2025 Edition): A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
• Codex‑CLI Power User Guide (2025)
• Monorepo Management with Git – Best Practices and Workflows
• Bazel in a Monorepo — A Practical, Copy‑Ready Guide
• Mermaid Flowcharts (with UML Meanings)
• Mermaid Sequence Diagrams: Syntax, UML Meaning, and Best Practices

September, 2025

• Adding Custom Commands in Git
• Mermaid vs Draw.io (diagrams.net)
• The “Cheerful Skeleton” Mosaic of Hatay, Turkey
• Mastering Companion Objects in Kotlin
• Make Uploaded Files Private in MediaWiki (Logged-In Only)
• Essential MediaWiki Syntax You Need to Know
• Git Monorepos Explained: From Basics to Advanced Features
• Installing Certbot on Amazon Linux 2023 via EPEL or pip
• Step-by-Step Guide to Installing and Configuring Nginx on Amazon Linux 2023 (ARM Graviton EC2)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Installing and Configuring Docker on AWS t4g.micro (Amazon Linux 2023, ARM64)
• Optimized MySQL/MariaDB Configuration for AWS t4g.micro (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM)
• Comprehensive Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Securing MySQL on Amazon Linux 2023 ARM64
• The Ultimate Guide to Mastering the Amazon Q CLI
• Converting CBZ to EPUB with Calibre
• Understanding Sealed Syntax in Kotlin
• Connecting Worlds: A Guide to Inter-Container Communication in Docker
• Debugging Your Kotlin/Spring Boot Application in a Docker Container with IntelliJ IDEA
• The “Weird” Keyboard Layout: A Relic of the Mechanical Past
• RestTemplateBuilder: A Modern Approach to HTTP Clients in Spring Boot
• Integrating Swagger (OpenAPI) with Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Gradle
• Why Should You Prefer Collections Over Arrays in Kotlin?
• A comprehensive guide to setting up and using Node Version Manager (NVM) on macOS.
• Sublime Text Command line Interface
• Creating a Command-Line Launcher for IntelliJ IDEA
• Mastering Mobile: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Mobile-Exclusive Pages in MediaWiki
• Mastering Google Cloud Path Matchers for Advanced URL Routing and Rewriting
• How to Configure a Global External HTTPS Load Balancer for Google Cloud Run
• Securing Your Microservices: A Guide to Internal-Only Traffic in Cloud Run
• Tidying Up Your MediaWiki URLs: A Guide to Hiding “index.php”
• A Comprehensive Guide to Using the Apple Studio Display with a Windows 11 PC
• IPad Pro 13-inch (M4) vs. iPad Air 13-inch (M2): A Detailed Comparison
• How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Mac External Display
• A plan for beginners in Kotlin server-side development.
• Deploy your custom containerized web server application to Google Cloud Run