https://alexmatosolive.com/blog Technical writing on iOS, Swift, backends, and AI-assisted workflows. en https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/the-classifier-that-never-phones-home https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/the-classifier-that-never-phones-home Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A garment classifier running entirely in the browser: 85% top-1 on 59 real wardrobe photos, a live network counter stuck at zero, and every finding that surprised me on the way — including the GPU losing to WASM. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/riding-barcelonas-bike-tide https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/riding-barcelonas-bike-tide Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A year of Barcelona's Bicing, snapshot by snapshot: the daily tide of shared bikes, the trucks that fight it at 1 AM, and why my predictor's 90% accuracy was worthless. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/a-post-it-note-vs-the-electricity-market https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/a-post-it-note-vs-the-electricity-market Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two years of Spain's hourly power prices, one domestic question, and a backtest that publishes its failures: how far does a rule you can memorize get against checking the tariff every day? https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/watching-a-wildfire-in-thermal https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/watching-a-wildfire-in-thermal Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I rebuilt the story of Spain's largest fire of 2026 from open Landsat data: temperature, 17-sigma anomalies, and two bugs my own invariants caught. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/shipping-a-saas-in-a-weekend https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/shipping-a-saas-in-a-weekend Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT What building BuildLoud at the Base Jump accelerator taught me about scope, speed, and what survives a sprint. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/building-while-studying https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/building-while-studying Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What it actually looks like to ship real apps and study Computer Engineering at the same time. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/clean-architecture-swiftui https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/clean-architecture-swiftui Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I structure a production SwiftUI app across Domain, UseCases, Data, and Presentation, and where the boundaries actually earn their keep. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/teaching-an-app-to-see-clothes https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/teaching-an-app-to-see-clothes Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What computer vision actually looks like when the input is a real photo of a real closet. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/swift-and-flutter https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/swift-and-flutter Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I use both, and how I decide which one a project gets. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/coding-a-law https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/coding-a-law Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Turning Spanish time-tracking regulation into a product normal people can actually use. https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/an-ai-that-writes-walking-tours https://alexmatosolive.com/blog/an-ai-that-writes-walking-tours Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a pipeline that turns open map data into narrated city tours, and learning not to trust it.