# Blog of Daniel Lyons

> The personal site of Daniel Lyons, a Swift developer building indie iOS apps. Technical blog about Swift, iOS development, software engineering, and Apple platform best practices.

You can find [more information about this site here](/about).

## All articles


### 2026

- [How to Protect Yourself from npm Supply Chain Attacks](https://dandylyons.net//til/how-to-protect-yourself-from-npm-supply-chain-attacks/)
- [Cherish Contradictions](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/cherish-contradictions/)
- [Smart People Ask Dumb Questions](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/smart-people-ask-dumb-questions/)
- [Adding Privacy-Friendly Comments to a Hugo Site with Chirpy](https://dandylyons.net//posts/adding-chirpy-comments/)

### 2025

- [Ensuring Swift Compatibility on Linux](https://dandylyons.net//posts/ensuring-swift-compatibility-on-linux/)
- [ITERATE: Your Path to Progress, Not Perfection](https://dandylyons.net//essays/iterate/)
- [What is The Neverending Story?](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/what-is-the-neverending-story/)
- [I Heard You Don't Like Netflix...](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/i-heard-you-dont-like-netflix/)
- [Reject Schadenfreude](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/reject-schadenfreude/)
- [Death to Inboxes](https://dandylyons.net//essays/death-to-inboxes/)
- [It Looks Like AI](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/it-looks-like-ai/)
- [Curiosity Silenced the Uncurious Cat](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/curiosity-silenced-the-uncurious-cat/)
- [How to Publish Unlisted Posts in Hugo](https://dandylyons.net//posts/unlisted-posts-in-hugo/)
- [There's Poor, and Then There's Capitalist Poor](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/theres-poor-and-then-theres-capitalist-poor/)
- [The Marxist, The Capitalist, and The Jealous](https://dandylyons.net//essays/the-marxist-the-capitalist-and-the-jealous/)
- [Happy Hurricane Douglas Day!](https://dandylyons.net//essays/happy-hurricane-douglas-day/)
- [You Come From a Family Of Survivors](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/you-come-from-a-family-of-survivors/)
- [How to Build an AI Personal Coach](https://dandylyons.net//unlisted/how-to-build-an-ai-personal-coach/)
- [macOS 26's Hidden Speechify Killer: Accessibility Reader](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/macos-26-accessibility-reader/)
- [My Takeaways From "Dawnshard" by Brandon Sanderson](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/dawnshard-takeaways/)
- [AI Is a Tool. Are You a Tool?](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/ai-is-a-tool-are-you-a-tool/)
- [Why Do I Write?](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/why-do-i-write/)
- [Actually Useful AI: Modern Search](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/actually-useful-ai-modern-search/)
- [AI Is Human Intelligence Applied](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/ai-is-human-intelligence-applied/)
- [Migrating Notes from Hugo/Quartz to Obsidian Publish](https://dandylyons.net//posts/migrating-notes-from-hugo-quartz-to-obsidian-publish/)
- [Goodbye Dataview! Hello Obsidian Bases!](https://dandylyons.net//posts/goodbye-dataview-hello-obsidian-bases/)
- [Entering the Mind of Nikola Tesla](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/entering-the-mind-of-nikola-tesla/)
- [On the Ambuguities of Sorry](https://dandylyons.net//essays/on-the-ambuguities-of-sorry/)
- [Smooth Site Migration: Redirecting GitHub Pages to Netlify Path-by-Path (with Hugo & SEO in Mind)](https://dandylyons.net//posts/smooth-site-migration-redirecting-github-pages-to-netlify-path-by-path/)
- [Listen Up: Your Guide to Turning Any Text Into Audio](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/listen-up-your-guide-to-turning-any-text-into-audio/)
- [AI Is Not Human But We Sure Think It Is](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/ai-is-not-human-but-we-sure-think-it-is/)
- [AI Is a Moving Goalpost](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/ai-is-a-moving-goalpost/)
- [AI Is Not Logical, It's Probable](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/ai-is-not-logical-its-probable/)
- [How to Always Be Right](https://dandylyons.net//essays/how-to-always-be-right/)
- [Post Expertise Scarcity](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/post-expertise-scarcity/)
- [Penny for Your Thoughts?](https://dandylyons.net//thoughts/penny-for-your-thoughts/)
- [Icons in SwiftUI](https://dandylyons.net//posts/icons-in-swiftui/)
- [Introducing: "Let There Be Sight" now in beta!](https://dandylyons.net//posts/let-there-be-sight-beta/)
- [Swift Error Handling: The Solution](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-error-handling-the-solution/)
- [Swift Error Handling: The Problem](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-error-handling-the-problem/)
- [Actually Useful Obsidian: Formatting](https://dandylyons.net//posts/actually-useful-obsidian-formatting/)
- [What's the difference between class and class_name in Godot?](https://dandylyons.net//posts/godot-class-vs-class_name/)
- [Easy Deep Copy Cloning in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/easy-deep-copy-cloning-in-swift/)

### 2024

- [Introducing SelectiveEquatable](https://dandylyons.net//posts/selectiveequatable/)
- [Safe Constants in GDScript](https://dandylyons.net//unlisted/safe-constants-in-gdscript/)
- [Am I Using Swift 5 or 6?](https://dandylyons.net//posts/am-i-using-swift-5-or-6/)
- [Gradual Static Typing in GDScript](https://dandylyons.net//posts/gradual-static-typing-in-gdscript/)
- [Selective Equality Checking in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/selective-equality-checking-in-swift/)
- [Unordered Equality Checking in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/unordered-equality-checking-in-swift/)
- [A Deep Dive into Value and Reference Types in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-value-reference-deep-dive/)
- [Swift Assertions Cheatsheet: How, Why, and When to Crash](https://dandylyons.net//posts/mastering-swift-assertions/)
- [Exhaustive, Flexible, Multi-Typed Error Handling in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/typed-error-handling/)
- [An Introduction to Swift on the Server](https://dandylyons.net//unlisted/swift-server-introduction/)
- [How to Visualize a Dependency Graph of Swift Dependencies](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-dependency-graph-visualization/)
- [Differentiating Parameterized Tests in Swift Testing](https://dandylyons.net//unlisted/differentiating-parameterized-tests-in-swift-testing/)
- [Abstractions Increase Complexity: Here's Why That's Not A Bad Thing](https://dandylyons.net//posts/abstractions-increase-complexity/)
- [The Swift Ranges Cheatsheet](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-ranges-cheatsheet/)
- [Swift 6's New @retroactive Attribute](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-6-retroactive-attribute/)
- [Demystifying Modern macOS Development](https://dandylyons.net//posts/demystifying-modern-macos-development/)
- [Benchmarking in Swift with swift-collections-benchmark](https://dandylyons.net//posts/benchmarking-in-swift-with-swift-collections-benchmark/)
- [Using Custom Components in Swift's Regex](https://dandylyons.net//posts/using-custom-components-in-swifts-regex/)
- [The Many Faces Of Swift's Regex](https://dandylyons.net//posts/the-many-faces-of-swifts-regex/)
- [Using Optionals with SwiftUI Bindings](https://dandylyons.net//posts/using-optionals-with-swiftui-bindings/)
- [Exhaustive Testing Made Easy](https://dandylyons.net//posts/exhaustive-testing-made-easy/)
- [How to Take Full Advantage of Swift Package Index](https://dandylyons.net//posts/spi-tips/)
- [Boost Your Productivity with These macOS Typing Shortcuts](https://dandylyons.net//posts/macos-typing-shortcuts/)
- [How to Scroll to a Percentage in a ScrollView](https://dandylyons.net//posts/scroll-to-percentage-in-scrollview/)
- [Job Copilot](https://dandylyons.net//projects/job-copilot/)
- [Hello Hugo](https://dandylyons.net//posts/hello-hugo/)
- [AestheText](https://dandylyons.net//projects/aesthetext/)
- [Concrete and "Soft" Types in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-generics/concrete-types-swift/)
- [Explicit and Implicit Types in Swift](https://dandylyons.net//posts/swift-generics/explicit-types-swift/)
- [Hawaiian Vocab](https://dandylyons.net//projects/hawaiian-vocab/)

### 2023

- [TCACalc](https://dandylyons.net//projects/tcacalc/)
- [How to add Apple’s “Night Mode” to your SwiftUI Views](https://dandylyons.net//posts/implement-swiftui-night-mode/)
- [How to use a JS for...of loop with an index](https://dandylyons.net//posts/js-for-of-loop/)
- [PlusNightMode](https://dandylyons.net//projects/plusnightmode/)

### 2021

- [7 Ways to Organize SwiftUI Code](https://dandylyons.net//posts/7-ways-to-organize-swiftui-code/)

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