Paul HudsonMy new app is now available for preorder! It has been so much fun to build, and it's even more fun to play – 240 cybersecurity challenges, using real-world skills, and backed by tutorials teaching you everything you need to know ✨ Mac, iPad, and iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hacktivate-capture-the-flag/id6748286602
I've worked hard to give it a retro, "Hollywood hacker" aesthetic, but all the skills are real – binary and hex, hashing and encryption, Unix terminals, steganography, and more. All built with SwiftUI, so cross platform and native on day one.
The app is free to download, giving you 12 tutorial challenges so you can really see how it all works. There's then a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the rest of the game. I'm working on a separate edition without IAPs, so schools can buy it for the classrooms.
If you're keen to learn real-world cybersecurity skills – perhaps for yourself, or perhaps you have kids you want to introduce to computing in a fun way – I hope you check out Hacktivate. Let me know what you think! https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hacktivate-capture-the-flag/id6748286602
PS: If you're curious how I made some of the special effects in SwiftUI, I walk through some of them here: https://youtu.be/FCAagJjdfDM
Hacktivate: Capture the Flag – Early preview
Alexandra Jusino@twostraws I need to check your app out, you do talk about it in your book. Changing topics... we have a Hacking with Swift livestream tomorrow right? This is because you are traveling if I remember correctly and had to move the date? Just making sure I'm not messing up my dates.
@Alexjusino Yes to the stream! More iOS 26 stuff 🙂