iOS Dev Tools: MacPane, Livable, Sherlock
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Hello! 👋
This week I partner with Shannon Ash. She’s been writing CVs since COVID-19 hit, helping people position themselves better and land new jobs.
Six years later, her work is still producing real results:
87% of her clients landed interviews within 2 weeks of applying.
70% reported a salary increase, up to 35%, while securing their new role.
Some went from months, up to 4 months, of silence to multiple offers at once.
The clients she mainly works with are usually dealing with one of these problems:
Ghosted - they’ve been applying for 2+ months with zero replies and no interviews.
Pivoting their career - they’re in their late 30s or 40s with a decade of expertise, but don’t know how to translate their wins or skills into a new industry or niche.
Aspiring to be a leader - they’re aiming for the C-Suite or a Senior Lead role, but their current CV still looks like a list of tasks, not a record of impact. The CV changes with seniority.
Procrastinating daily - they’re unhappy where they are, but the mental weight of updating their CV is a lot. They keep putting it off and don’t have the time to even start.
Offer:
Cover Letter and CV: a positioning statement letter, which is Shannon’s spin on a cover letter, plus a CV.
Fully optimized LinkedIn profile to match the new narrative.
Price: 450€ 📌
Interested? - Just reply to this email or contact me at - hi@iosdev.tools
MacPane
MacOS menu bar window manager. It auto-tiles regular app windows with the macOS Accessibility API, then lets you focus, swap, resize, and rotate tiles with global keyboard shortcuts.
Why you will like it:
Instantly arranges your app windows across each display when it launches.
Focus, swap, resize, and rotate windows with simple global shortcuts.
New windows automatically snap into the layout, while closed windows are removed without leaving empty space.
Switch between separate workspaces or move windows between them using shortcuts.
Adjust the space around and between tiled windows directly from the menu bar.
Livable
SwiftUI package that turns a view's own pixels into a soft, animated, liquid-like gradient surface. The effect is implemented with a SwiftUI layer shader and Metal.
Why you will like it:
Apply the effect without extracting colors or manually defining a palette.
Add the effect directly to any SwiftUI view using a simple
.livable()modifier.The effect uses a SwiftUI layer shader and Metal for smooth, modern performance.
Control whether the effect is enabled, how fast it moves, and how much blur is applied.
Sherlock
Apple Developer documentation, instantly searchable in Claude Code. Free and open source.
Why you will like it:
Sherlock gives Claude Code a searchable local index of Apple framework documentation.
It helps Claude verify real Apple APIs, method names, parameters, availability, and deprecations before writing code.
Framework docs are downloaded on demand and cached locally for fast future reads.
Adds tools for searching, reading, installing, listing, and updating Apple documentation.
The Apple docs index is rebuilt weekly from developer.apple.com and delivered as ready-to-use release artifacts.
Slideshot - Describe the feature flow you want to show. Slideshot drives your web app, records the walkthrough, and returns a polished video.
TongueType - MacOS voice dictation app. No cloud, no accounts, no subscriptions. Hold a key, speak, release, and your words appear. Supports 12 languages and audio file transcription.
Rainbow - Replaces the grey Apple logo in the menu bar with the classic six-colour rainbow Apple logo from 1977.
Better Source Monitor - Keeps an eye on your Mac’s CPU, memory, GPU, and network activity with minimal system impact, all in a clean interface.
Doorry - Keeps an eye on every open port on your Mac and lets you shut down rogue processes with a single click. Built for developers tired of terminal rituals.
ShotX - A screen capture tool that offers screenshots, screen recording, annotations, GIF export, and capture history.
MAU Vegas May 19-21st, United States (Las Vegas) 🇺🇸
mDevCamp June 3-4th, Czech Republic (Prague) 🇨🇿
MacAdmins July 7-10th, United States (Pennsylvania) 🇺🇸
Swift Rockies July 22-23th, Canada (Calgary) 🇨🇦
iOSDevUK September 7-10th, United Kingdom (Aberystwyth) 🇬🇧
Swift Island September 7-11th, Netherlands (Texel) 🇳🇱
NSSpain September 16-18th, Spain (Logroño) 🇪🇸
Next.app devcon October 7-9th, Germany (Berlin) 🇩🇪
SwiftLeeds October 12-14th, United Kingdom (Leeds) 🇬🇧
DevFest Hamburg October 16-17th, Germany (Hamburg) 🇩🇪
code.talks November 4-5th, Germany (Hamburg) 🇩🇪
Swiftsonic November 20-22nd, United States (Nashville) 🇺🇸
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FYI the Sherlock link is dead atm may also be the repo however.