Starting a new project recently and:
- Wading in to the SwiftData waters and added saving to a context, and I’m impressed. Gave the app an infinite loop at the view layer and we’ll fix that later.
- Doodled a couple candidates for a development and alternate app icon! Someone has to bring a little culture.
- Just that tiny bit of progress today but the momentum is what’s important.

Little clean-ups and place setting / writing plans for the next improvements:
- Fixed that loop lol
- Switched from dataTask completion handlers to Combine's dataTaskPublisher
- TIL don't use @Model var id because that field name is already taken
- Hm that's weird though, the docs say it's persistentModelId but Xcode 15.0.1 gives me id in the definition.
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftdata/persistentmodel/persistentmodelid

Tonight:
- Punting on API client safety, moved initial fetch from .onAppear to .task
- Started building Add[Redacted]View for the most common essential data entry to add a new model (UI first, data later). Forms and pickers!
- Removed unused code
- Lots of Avett Brothers and feelings

Today:
- Added a preview for the first Form view
- Fixed preview for main view (need to add mock user data)
- Writing notes to connect model work with submitting this form
- Took a detour to build out fetching account info and then returned to pre-populate the form
- Hit a 401 when requesting account info
- Figured out I need to use the accessToken from the token body response
- Pre-filled that info on the form
- Display user's name on main page
- Lots more // TODO

Tonight:
- Added more data types
- Added more Form UI
- Moved Form State vars into actual model
- Picker

Today:
- rest

Today
- No luck with my previews yet (likely have to mock out API client)
- add parsing/serializing idempotency test to main model (failing)
- add suggestions list for Manufacturer field with network fetch and SwiftData storage (pretty useful!) (more work to connect selection to main model)
- add KeychainSwift dependency
- add AuthenticatedUser (new) owns User (existing)
- add keychain caching for OAuth token — auto-login if the session is still valid!

Today 2:
- failing to set up a server instance locally
(must have a dev server to spare polluting production)
- more on this later

Codable + network API

Today:
- add a development app icon from a doodle!
- change one more model field to optional, fetching correctly now

Today:
- local development server set up
- failing on the Postgres and reaching out to the project folks for help
- might be on the ‘wrong’ Linux, might be making a silly mistake
- blocks app development for anything that writes to the API

Today:
- it is a server project issue and we’re triaging
- after that I’ll need to write a GettingStarted.md guide

Today:
- got the dev server working!
- This is not a reproducible build
- This is not a place of honor
- That GettingStarted.md is calling me and it'll be starting from zero. Might come back to it later
- Need a breather after this but glad I have a checkpoint

Also Thursday (previous post):
- Added environment variables to xcconfig
- Added showing the env in new SettingsView

Today:
- Fixed api host url to include the port
- Added config for local environment!
- Failing to get an access token from the local dev server during OAuth, asked for help
- Added sign-out button to Settings if authenticated
- Added Settings view to sign-in page to show the current env
- Added notes