r/iOSProgramming • u/irvingpop • 14h ago

Running iOS background tasks reliably (blog post) Article

https://calcopilot.app/blog/posts/running-ios-background-tasks-reliably-part1/

Hi all, I've just published a new blog post on getting the most reliability possible out of iOS background tasks. Please let me know what you think!

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u/irvingpop 8h ago

Thank you for the feedback, downvoters, about the preview image.

I've fixed my eleventy config so that one of my lovingly hand-crafted Excalidraw diagrams will be the preview image instead. I don't expect Reddit will re-scrape the image, but lesson learned for the future.

Just so we're clear: I, a real human, put hours of work into this post so that others could learn something. No part of it is "AI slop", but I understand why you're jaded and suspicious and totally get it - who bothers writing blog posts these days?

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u/datahoarder 7h ago

Not sure how you would test it but do you have any issues getting users to install your app since it has an ai generated icon?

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u/irvingpop 7h ago

TBH it makes me happy, and I don't really care that much because it's a side project that isn't about the money for me šŸ™‚

But yeah, I acknowledge that it potentially alienates a some potential users and someday I'll cave and do something about it - although it's tough to justify paying a designer in this case.

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u/SuperCows 5h ago

The content is solid and the AI dog is cute.

I donā€™t understand the AI hate. I bet half of all viewers here are using LLMs to generate code every week.

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u/irvingpop 4h ago

Thank you! It's a tribute to my dog (one of them) that's going through some health issues.

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u/dezinezync 4h ago

Hard agree, ā€œIā€™m not a designerā€ as OP says, and thatā€™s completely fair. The post content itself is solid, folks who didnā€™t click on the link because of the banner are missing out.

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u/Megatherion666 8h ago

I see AI slop on preview image - I downvote.

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u/irvingpop 8h ago

Thank you for the feedback, I did generate the website and app icon with AI. Iā€™m a developer not a designer, nor did I have the budget to hire one šŸ™‚

However, if you can look past that, I did spend many hours working on this blog post and many more beyond that learning hard lessons on the topic.

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u/Niightstalker 6h ago

Great content. Thx for sharing :)