Introducing Apple UI Insider
A new newsletter that draws every picture twice, once with a clean-room renderer, once with Apple's own frameworks, and publishes what's different
I’m Mihaela. Senior iOS architect with fifteen-plus years on Apple platforms. I build AI-powered developer tools for the Apple ecosystem.
Currently shipping Cupertino, an open-source MCP server that gives Claude and other AI assistants offline access to Apple’s developer documentation. Featured in iOS Dev Weekly.
Recent posts
SwiftUI 3D is Flat
SwiftUI's iOS and macOS 3D is per-view projected 2D output composited by painter's order, with no shared-space depth-sorted hierarchy, and the APIs that would fix it are visionOS-only, proven with a rendered counterexample and four executable witnesses
Humans Don't Work at GitHub
GitHub made my work disappear, put a broken machine gate in front of appeal, and gave me no human path back