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Top Ten Tips for Vibe Coding with Cursor in 2025
Explore ten practical tips to enhance your productivity and creativity when coding with Cursor, focusing on a 'vibe coding' flow for 2025. Read more →
Sourcing 3D Assets That Shine on Vision Pro 📸
Learn where to find great 3D models (free and paid) for Vision Pro, how to convert them to USDZ, and best practices for optimizing them for RealityKit and Reality Composer Pro. Read more →
Best Xcode AI tools in 2025 🛠️
A guide to the latest Xcode AI tools and workflows. Read more →
Fix your health (for software engineers) 🧘
How I fixed my health, moving past pre-diabetes, back pain, and overeating. Read more →
Debugging RealityKit apps and games on visionOS 🔬
Debug CPU/GPU performance, rendering issues, and more on visionOS. Read more →
Optimizing RealityKit apps for visionOS 🛠️
Useful tips for optimizing RealityKit apps for visionOS. Read more →
The future of AI, & how I live life 🦿
Capturing the state of my ever-evolving philosophy around how I live my life, based on AI's trajectory. Read more →
Introducing Langtester: free language proficiency quizzes 📓
The only quiz to find out your level and get personalized recommendations Read more →
Gabe's Monthly - July 2024 🐉
An amalgamation of personal & business updates await. Read more →
Gabe's Monthly - June 2024 🐉
We're back!... Read more →
How to make your first visionOS game 🥽
What I learned launching a game on visionOS after a 2-day hackathon. Read more →
Custom fonts on SwiftUI in visionOS for RealityKit app 🥽
The gotchas and fixes for using custom fonts in SwiftUI in a RealityKit app on visionOS. Read more →
How to start a business in 2024 🏢
From creating the entity to hiring, software, and banking. Read more →
Vision Pro - A developer's experience 🥽
First impressions + getting started with dev. Read more →
I'm starting a business 🌱
It's happening, sooner than expected. Read more →
Sabbatical notes 🥱
Big life updates. Read more →
Getting started with Korean 🇰🇷
Tips and recommendations as I also learn Korean going into 2024. Read more →
Overcoming lower back pain 💪
How I had the fastest recovery ever. Read more →
How to setup Auto-GPT on macOS 💽
Step-by-step install on macOS + great use cases. Read more →
First impressions of GPT-4 🤖
A software eng's experience using OpenAI's new multimodal model. Read more →
Reasons why I batch my trips 🧳
Orchestrating executional momentum, creativity, and fun. Read more →
Building this site: data + dark mode 🌑
Nextra v2 and Firebase. Read more →
To 2023 and beyond 🔭
Taking a moment to reflect on 2022 and plan ahead. Read more →
Installing Gatsby v2 on an M1 Mac 🔧
How to circumvent `vips` or `Sharp` errors. Read more →
4-1-1: Definitely not written by AI
Verified human ☑️ ($8) Read more →
Ways to export your iOS health data (2023) 💾
Retrieve steps, distance walked/ran, workout data, and more. Read more →
The methodology around my accountability trackers 👨🔬
Thoughts on the data, experiments, future plans and more. Read more →
How to organize your email with server-side rules in 2022 📨
No matter how many email addresses you have. Read more →
How to distribute a screensaver on macOS in 2024 ⚙️
Steps to help you create, sign, notarize, and distribute your macOS apps. Read more →
First impressions on public accountability trackers 📊
Early thoughts on how my day-to-day has been influenced. Read more →
How I'm building this website 🛠
The technological breakdown and future outlook. Read more →
Bullet points on learning Mandarin Chinese in 2022 📕
A list sure to accelerate your Mandarin learning. Read more →
August + September 2022 reflection 🌌
On health, life, travel, and building. Read more →
Best Chinese screensaver for learning words 🖥
A 'word of the day' screensaver to help with learning Mandarin. Read more →
Reflections on learning Mandarin Chinese since 2017 🀄️
Inspiration and tips based on my trajectory. Read more →
Bullet points on getting decadent sleep 🛌
The list I run through to improve my sleep. Read more →
Positive addictions 🎮
How I think about strengthening habits. Read more →
Chasing flow to build habits 🏃♂️
My only productivity system. Read more →