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• September 1, 2026

  Real-time Whisper on-device: chunk size, VAD, and quantization, with numbers

  Benchmarking whisper.cpp for live meeting transcription on Apple Silicon: the ~1.6s latency floor, why VAD is a 28% win, why q5_0 is free, and why CoreML wasn't worth it.

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• September 1, 2026

  When SwiftUI stops being enough: rebuilding a chat message list in UIKit

  Why a chat list in a shipping iOS app moved from ScrollView to a y-inverted UICollectionView: the scroll geometry SwiftUI won't give you, the four animation systems you have to silence separately, and a keyboard bug that took four attempts.

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