Nishant Desai

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Everything with wheels. Cricket. iOS Engineer @pspdfkit.

Stumbled on to this guide by GH on choosing an AI model for coding tasks. Been playing around with Gemini 2.5 Pro lately and it’s been really good with long-context inputs (just like the guide points out). Super handy when deep diving into large classes.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/ai-models/choosing-the-right-ai-model-for-your-task

Choosing the right AI model for your task - GitHub Docs

Compare available AI models in Copilot Chat and choose the best model for your task.

GitHub Docs
Scope search in Xcode is a really handy feature.
I use a `Swift only` scope to search in Swift files only which helps a lot in a project containing Objective-C and Swift both.
I think I should write a script that takes the latest changes from master onto my current working branch, clears DerivedData and starts making a build everyday at 7 in the morning just to save me time and frustration from doing it at the start of my day when I’m in the zone.

RT @dmartincy: Tip: When Xcode is indexing a project you can show the number of remaining files, instead of the generic "Processing files". Just run this in Terminal:

defaults write http://com.apple.dt.Xcode IDEIndexerActivityShowNumericProgress -bool true https://twitter.com/dmartincy/status/1034930612543676418/photo/1

I can see it being very useful and a nice to have thing.
TIL: You can set privacy level specific to a toot while composing.
Dark Mode of Mojave in Safari makes me feel like I'm using private browsing all the time. Always double check