This weekend I hope to get as many of my (extremely late) iOS 26 updates out as I can. Thankfully a lot of the work was already done, I just never sent them out for review.

I took a very extended social media break and now I’m trying to be back. We’ll see how this goes.

Next, I have an idea for integrating Foundation Model into one of my projects. I haven't looked at the API yet so I don't know if I'll be able to pull it off, but I'm definitely gonna try!

Spent today playing around with liquid glass. Spent a lot of time tweaking colors, animations, spacing, and playing with the new glass effects. Also finally got that image scaling to work!

I finally got this working today. The answer seems obvious now but I had to limit how much the image could scale so that it didn't grow larger than its container.

The developer sessions have been making me want to build a new app to play with all these new APIs. So many fun new toys. New WebKit might be the thing that finally gets me to learn a little JavaScript.

The new Foundation Model framework is my sleeper hit of dub dub. Offline. Capable. Perfect API design. Instructions, tool calling and more! I wrote up an intro over it, this thing is gonna be fun to play with: superwall.com/blog/an-int...

Did I imagine Apple saying devs have a year to update to using Liquid Glass? I feel like I heard that and nobody else did. Am I going crazy??

First day at my new job + WWDC. Tons of new information and adventures to get into.

Watch my WWDC session to learn how to easily adopt Swift concurrency in your app with new Swift 6.2 features🤩 #WWDC25 developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

The time we've all been waiting for! Fruitful has officially come to Fruition 😍 #WWDC25 Let's ship right before I have actually no time to fix any production issues, sounds like a good plan 🤪 Preorder now, available Monday! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digital-business-card-fruitful/id6449998135

Y'all I got a job as an iOS dev 😭

📣 It's official.... I'm taking the stage with Zach Brass at @swiftconnection.bsky.social in October! Swift Connection has been on my list to attend for years and I'm pretty excited I can make it this year _and_ give a talk with Zach 😁 This will be a one of a kind talk... don't miss it 👀

The answer is yes, it’s possible. Figuring out the how is going to be my project this weekend.

I also want to figure out if it’s possible to accept arguments directly in phrases. Like instead of “Log a Pokémon as caught in ShinyDex” and then having to prompt for the name or ID, can we can use “Log a Charizard as caught in ShinyDex” and skip the extra step?

How do you all go about informing users of all of the phrases they can use with App Intents?

I’m gonna have to talk about 2022 next time I sit in the lady’s chair.

The App Intents update to ShinyDex just got approved. For this update I also worked with a local designer to get a new icon made for it!

Shortcuts and Siri integration has been shipped and is waiting for approval from the App Store review team. I was sitting on this one for a while. There's some more shortcuts I wanted to add but I felt like the ones I had working were good enough to release.

I had to completely rebuild CodeDump but the new version is up in the store and ready to go. I fixed some bugs I found in the previous version and added some much needed functionality like being able to select all files in a directory in the tree view with one click!

Supposed to be working on deep links but I've spent two hours trying to get the image to stretch when the user scrolls down. I'm close but now it stutters inside of the ScrollView. I'll get there at some point but for now I'm gonna go back to trying to figure out deep links. That's more important.

I need to figure out the deep linking thing for my shortcuts. I’ve tried it with other apps in the past and never got it to work correctly, but today that’s my focus.

About to ship my first AppIntents/Shortcuts. Might be cool might be a disaster 👀

Skyline cleanse! On her way to a much needed grooming appointment.

I crossed 1,000 total app downloads a couple months ago and that was wild to see. What a milestone!

Just saw this review for ShinyDex 🥹 it’s so cool that people use and enjoy my dumb little app I made for a dumb little reason.

I have….. 👨🏾‍💻Made 14 apps 👾Game Of The Day Feature 📱App Of The Day Feature 🍎Met Mr Apple! 🚨Front page Feature on App Store 🎓Spoken at schools all over world Please feel free to AMA! My latest app - apps.apple.com/gb/app/of-th...

Once I can get CodeDump approved, I'm pretty determined to get my AppIntents/Shortcuts update out for ShinyDex. It's almost done, just needs a little polish.

These are my app's windows. They all have a button to close/dismiss. Does every window need to have the close/return button in the title bar specifically?

Today I found out I did not get this job. At least I learned how to close Vim. It’s the small wins.

My CodeDump update got rejected yesterday. They said my menu bar didn’t have a close button (didn’t even notice that) and I didn’t give them files to work with to test the app. I didn’t know I had to provide files (I didn’t the first time) so hopefully a GitHub repo will work.

I’m coming up on two years of learning Swift. I remember when I started and I’d see people with two years of experience and they looked like they knew everything. I was so ready to fast-forward to that part of the journey. If it makes y’all feel any better, I am still an idiot.

Gave a super important presentation at work today

I recently got "how do you close Vim" as an interview question.

I accidentally deleted the folder containing all of my code for CodeDump. I am an idiot and did not have it backed up to GitHub or anywhere else. I finally rebuilt it, with improvements! Going to do some more testing and ship the update soon.

Do you think GTA VI will accurately depict the traffic fans have to get through to get to the Kaseya Center for a Heat game? Maybe we can finally put an end to the “Heat fans show up late” discourse.

Gauging interest, but if I could print stickers (including getting the correct app icon shape so you wouldn’t have to), would you order them for me for things like WWDC, @deepdishswift.com, etc? Please repost for reach!

Reflecting on @deepdishswift.com and the people I got to meet. Hearing y’all’s stories, picking your brains, and absorbing your advice was extremely helpful to me as I try to find my way and I want to make sure I say thank you. I genuinely made some new friends 🥹

I taught 300 people how to build for Apple Intelligence yesterday!

I forced myself out of my comfort zone once again and spoke at @deepdishswift.com in Chicago about shipping 10 apps in a year! Thank you @joshdholtz.com for the opportunity to be a part of this incredible conference. You can view my portfolio here: daniellelewis.dev/portfolio

✍️ New Post ✍️ I distilled my Deep Dish Swift talk on indie app marketing to three key points. Also, I've included the Numbers spreadsheet template I used in the talk to track ad spend: www.swiftjectivec.com/Three-Key-Ta...

Making 10 apps in a year under ideal conditions would be challenging. @daniellelewis.dev told us at @deepdishswift.com of how she did it in opposite conditions. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

Thank you, Matt!

🍕 The first indie talk of the day has started! @daniellelewis.dev is taking the stage with "Learning in Public: My Journey to 10"

Join YNAB as an iOS Engineer! YNAB is a financial education company with a spendfulness app that helps people all over the world spend their money (guilt-free!) on what matters most to them. Work from anywhere, with a salary range of $145,000-190,000. jobs.diversifytech.com/job/1720714-...

I can’t decide if the talk by @simanerush.bsky.social was more educational or inspirational. Either way, it was awesome.

Vinyl Vision update 2.0 is now live in the visionOS App Store!!! 🎉

You know how I love to celebrate milestones. Today is a big one. I just published my 200th post on Step Into Vision 🎉 My goal is to create the best resource for #visionOS developers. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm well on my way! stepinto.vision