About

I’ve been writing online since 1995, when I was a kid typing on the computers at my local library because we didn’t have one at home yet. I started Deallocated Objects in 2010 to write about iOS development, and these days I write about whatever I’m digging into: Apple, developer tools, security, design and a whole lot of AI agents.

Why Listen To Me?#

I’ve been making iOS apps since the App Store opened in 2008, so I’ve lived through every one of Apple’s big shifts, from Objective-C and the iPhone OS to Swift, SwiftUI and the Vision Pro.

Since 2011 I’ve worked on ShopSavvy, a shopping app millions of people have used. It’s been acquired more than once, and I’m one of its co-founders now. I wrote Little Bites of Cocoa, 392 daily tips for iOS and Mac developers. And I run Great Work, my own little studio, where I ship Mac, iOS and web apps, most of them built side by side with AI agents.

So when I write about a new Apple API, a security incident or how coding agents are changing things, it comes from someone who’s shipped real products with that stuff and been bitten by most of it.

Some Of My Companies And Products#

• ShopSavvy

  The price-comparison app millions of people have used since 2008. I’ve been an engineer there since 2011 and became a co-founder in 2018.

• Great Work

  My independent studio. Mac, iOS and web apps, developer tools and SaaS products.

• Little Bites of Cocoa

  392 daily iOS and Mac development tips, 2015 to 2018.

• Octopost

  Post to every social network at once, from your agent or the web.

• CallForMe

  Let your agent call businesses for you.

• BankBridge

  Give your agent read-only access to your bank accounts.

Find Me#

• X@jakemarsh
• Threads@jakemarsh
• GitHubjakemarsh

Deallocated Objects has its own accounts too:

• X@deallocatedobjs
• Mastodon / fediverse@blog@deallocatedobjects.com

Want to get in touch? Here’s how to reach me. Curious how this site works? That’s in the colophon.