Developer

A corner for the tools of the trade — the things that quietly shape a working day at the keyboard. Mostly interactive charts and short notes about the hardware and software developers actually use, starting with the Apple platform.

• Apple

  Tooling for the Apple platform — the Macs developers build on and the software they build with. Starts with an interactive chart of XcodeBenchmark compile times for every Mac chip, from the original M1 to the M5 Max and M3 Ultra, on both Xcode 26 and Xcode 16.