Review

Live-coding a PDF export feature for iOS

Takuya Matsuyama

May 19, 2023 — 2 min read

Hey, what's up? It's Takuya here.

This week, I've been preparing for the next video for devaslife. The next topic is going to be how I take tech notes in my engineering workflow.

Today, I've done live coding on the second channel (not a live-streaming). I tried to implement a PDF export feature for Inkdrop for iOS.

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