Hi! I'm Bruno Rocha, software engineer at Spotify and developer of Burnout Buddy. I write about the software engineering industry, Swift / iOS development, reverse engineering, and anything else that interests me! More about me.

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I upgraded my home networking equipment

Published on 01 Aug 2025

Reducing email spam with a domain and catch-all aliases

Published on 29 Jun 2025

How I'm using AI to improve my software engineering productivity (and why it will not steal your job)

Updated on 17 May 2025

My Home Automation setup

Updated on 01 May 2025

Things that did (and didn't) contribute to Burnout Buddy's success

Published on 23 Jan 2025

What happens when you move a file in git?

Published on 02 Dec 2024

Focus not on the task, but on the problem behind the task

Published on 18 Nov 2024

Working at startups vs large companies

Published on 14 Oct 2024

My process for learning new languages

Published on 1 Sep 2024

What are mobile release engineering teams and when do you need one? (Runway)

Published on 28 Jun 2024

Recommended WWDC24 Sessions

Published on 17 Jun 2024

Using @_silgen_name to forward declare functions in Swift and improve build times

Published on 14 Mar 2024

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Focus not on the task, but on the problem behind the task

Published on 18 Nov 2024

There is no right or wrong in software engineering

Published on 28 Dec 2023

How necessary are the programming fundamentals?

Reworked on 05 Nov 2023

How async/await works internally in Swift

Published on 28 Sep 2023

What's the "any" keyword? Understanding Type Erasure in Swift

Published on 12 Sep 2022

Are your frameworks bulletproof?

Published on 18 Jul 2022

Focus on concepts, not approaches

Published on 06 Jan 2022

How To Solve Any iOS Crash Ever

Published on 01 Nov 2021

Reverse engineering a 5 year old Xcode issue

Published on 31 Aug 2021

Thread Safety in Swift

Published on 11 May 2021

Understanding @inlinable in Swift

Published on 22 Dec 2020

Swift's Sequence Inside The Compiler: How for loops work internally

Published on 26 Oct 2019

iOS Responder Chain: UIResponder, UIEvent, UIControl and uses

Published on 01 Mar 2019

What's .self, .Type and .Protocol? Understanding Swift Metatypes

Published on 29 Oct 2018

Memory Management and Performance of Value Types

Published on 13 Apr 2018

Understanding DispatchQueues

Published on 14 Feb 2018

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