Blog Posts
Building a Weightlifting App with SwiftUI and Supabase
Insights from building a weightlifting app which started as a note on my phone, then became an Excel sheet, then became a fully-fledged serverless API and SwiftUI app.
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14 min read
Building a Weightlifting App with SwiftUI and Supabase
Insights from building a weightlifting app which started as a note on my phone, then became an Excel sheet, then became a fully-fledged serverless API and SwiftUI app.
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14 min read
The Architecture of This Site
The current architecture / tech stack of patrickspafford.com at a high level and a description of tradeoffs.
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11 min read
The Anthropic Dice Killer Simulation
Analysis on the "Anthropic Dice Killer" problem, plus a few twists. Features an in-browser simulator.
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10 min read
What is Infrastructure as Code?
Unpacking the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and detailing the pros and cons.
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7 min read
The Talking Point Fallacy
Why the concept of dismissing something as a talking point is a mistake.
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3 min read
Simple Survivor Selection Strategies in Evolutionary Computing
An investigation of survivor selection in the context of evolutionary algorithms.
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4 min read
iOS Photo Album Creator
Build a native module for creating photo albums in your React Native app (iOS only).
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5 min read
How to Recursively Render a Linked List
Render elements in SwiftUI recursively (instead of iteratively) using a linked list.
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5 min read
How to Efficiently Reverse a Linked List in Go
A walkthrough of a LeetCode problem on how to reverse a common data structure.
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2 min read
Thomson's Lamp Paradox
An analysis of a thought experiment using Python. Features an interactive demo.
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3 min read
TypeScript 101
A guide for JavaScript developers who would like to be introduced to the fundamentals of the TypeScript programming language.
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12 min read