Hi! I'm Akshat, an independent software engineer primarily developing for Apple Platforms.

A robust test suite and automated CI are essential for evolving a codebase, but managing flaky tests is challenging. PSPDFKit tackled this by automatically rerunning failed tests, streamlining development.

Scribble is an exciting addition to iPadOS, and it has really changed the way users can interact with Apple Pencil. By implementing the new Scribble APIs in the appropriate places, we can make our apps feel more fluid and we can greatly reduce the friction of using Apple Pencil.

Apple has a rich history of supporting the PDF file format, starting from PostScript printers and ultimately leading to a separate framework specifically for PDF files: PDFKit. However, it also has several problems, as outlined earlier in this article.