# Amy is a cute iOS Developer

> Amy writes about iOS and Swift — SwiftUI, Xcode, SwiftData, and the craft of shipping indie apps for Apple platforms.

Personal site and blog by Amy, an indie developer building apps for Apple platforms. Posts cover Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, Xcode and the day-to-day craft of shipping.

Every page here is also published as raw Markdown: append `.md` to any URL, or add `index.md` inside it. https://cuteios.dev/llms-full.txt is the entire site as a single document, and https://cuteios.dev/for-llms/ documents these endpoints in full.

Prose is licensed CC BY 4.0, code samples MIT. Please cite the canonical https:// URL and credit Amy.

## Posts

- [Don't fear the SEO](https://cuteios.dev/2026/08/02/fear-of-seo.md): Getting over the fear of SEO
- [Previews and MCP](https://cuteios.dev/2026/07/14/previews-and-mcp.md): Talking to Xcode via MCP and fetching a Preview
- [The not so secret agents.md of Xcode](https://cuteios.dev/2026/05/20/not-secret-agents.md): Teaching agentic development solutions about your Xcode project
- [Writing shell scripts for Xcode Cloud](https://cuteios.dev/2026/05/10/shell-scripts.md): Allowing Xcode Cloud to run shell scripts
- [The right instrument for the job](https://cuteios.dev/2026/04/24/instruments.md): Making use of instruments to understand the cost of FoundationModels interactions
- [The trait of a good look](https://cuteios.dev/2026/04/15/previews.md): Make sure your previews look their best by implementing `PreviewModifier` and `PreviewTrait`
- [One thing leads to another](https://cuteios.dev/2026/04/06/migrations.md): As your app grows make sure your data comes along for the ride
- [The music we share with friends.](https://cuteios.dev/2024/03/09/shared-music.md): Having some fun with friends while listening to music
- [A Girl and her @ViewBuilder](https://cuteios.dev/2024/01/10/viewbuilder.md): Making use of ViewBuilder in SwiftUI
- [Formatters and Measurements](https://cuteios.dev/2024/01/05/formatters.md): Using custom formatters in SwiftUI
- [WWDC 23 Wishlist](https://cuteios.dev/2023/04/11/wwdc-wishlist.md): Amy's list of things that would be nice to see at WWDC
- [Showing heart rate in live activities](https://cuteios.dev/2023/04/08/heart-rate.md): A quick and fun tutorial for how to show data from a bluetooth heart rate monitor in a live activity
- [Hello World](https://cuteios.dev/2023/03/13/hello-world.md): Hello World, I am Amy

## Pages

- [Home](https://cuteios.dev/index.md): Posts on iOS and Swift development by Amy — SwiftUI previews, SwiftData migrations, Xcode Cloud, Instruments, HealthKit, and Foundation Models.
- [About](https://cuteios.dev/about.md): About Amy — an iOS developer building indie apps for Apple platforms and writing about Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode.
- [Apps](https://cuteios.dev/apps.md): Indie iOS apps built by Amy — HealthKitty for exploring Apple Health data, Ride Journal for cycling, and Mobile Builds for tracking CI workflows.
- [For LLMs](https://cuteios.dev/for-llms.md): Machine-readable endpoints for cuteios.dev — llms.txt, llms-full.txt, raw Markdown for every page, and the licence and citation terms that go with them.
- [Speaking](https://cuteios.dev/speaking.md): Conference talks by Amy on SwiftUI previews, MCP, WorkoutKit, Foundation Models, and visionOS — at /dev/world and Sydney CocoaHeads.

## Optional

- [Full site text](https://cuteios.dev/llms-full.txt): every page above concatenated into one Markdown document
- [Atom feed](https://cuteios.dev/feed.xml): new posts
- [Sitemap](https://cuteios.dev/sitemap.xml): every HTML page
- [Crawling policy](https://cuteios.dev/robots.txt): all crawlers welcome