J.P. Toro

I’m a Swift & SwiftUI developer who shares production-ready technical insights through open-source projects and my blog. Most recently, I created Raptor, a Swift framework for static sites and server-side rendering. Before that, I worked on Swift-authored web tools, including significant work on Ignite alongside Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift. You can read about that process in the article below.

Feb 28, 2025

Lighting Ignite on Fire

How I transformed Paul Hudson’s Swift static site generator into SwiftUI for the web.

Font Switch

A full-powered SwiftUI menu-bar app that overcomes MenuBarExtra’s limitations through the elegant integration of AppKit. Features right-click support, detachable panels, programmatic key window management, and Sparkle 2.0 updates.

Text Forge

A SwiftUI snippet manager that demonstrates how to build a modern, elegant macOS app with excellent backwards compatibility and few compromises.

Noteworthy PDF

A native Mac utility that converts PDF popup comments into styled margin notes with full control over fonts, colors, timestamps, and layout—keeping annotations connected to text while eliminating traditional export limitations.

Battle-tested SwiftUI techniques straight from the development trenches—free, infrequent, and packed with practical insights that solve real challenges across the Apple ecosystem and beyond.