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Once you learn how to build things, the desire to keep doing it never goes away.

Planning a small talk for the upcoming iOS developer happy hour on the steps I took to get a job as a new iOS developer and how I was able to use that same framework to make an impact as a new dev on an established team. If there’s any questions you’d like me to answer lmk so I can weave it in.

Finally got around to adding a quiz mode to Legal Terms! Still in review but I've wanted to do this for a long time so I'm happy it's done.

I’ve had an unusual lack of clarity about my next goal and what steps I need to take to get there. This is probably going to be fleshed out more as a long-form blog post as I continue to process all my thoughts.

I made a companion app for Old School RuneScape 🤓. This was originally just a way for me to track progress through the Optimal Quest Guide but kept growing as I kept finding fun things I could do with it. It got approved today! 🎉

There’s an iOS app waiting for review too. Hopefully I can sneak that in before the end of the year so I can feel like I accomplished something in the second half of the year.

Almost a year to the date of my last *new* app release, SingTheSong is now out on visionOS! I'm still building apps for visionOS because it's FUN. This one listens to the music playing in your environment and displays real-time lyrics. Made this one for my fellow vinyl enthusiasts.

My app I submitted last weekend got rejected so I fixed the issues and resubmitted that and another new app i’d been working on. Both are super MVPs but fingers crossed I’ll get to add two more apps to my portfolio this week.

Putting finishing touches on app 1 of 2 for release 🙌🏾. It’s another visionOS project I made for fun just because. Hoping for a smooth review process so I can move on to iOS project I’m working on.

We’re hiring an iOS engineer at Tibber! Come work on an almost fully SwiftUI project, for a good cause (pushing renewable energy), with awesome colleagues (including me 😁) and a considerate work/life balance in focus. EU based. jobs.tibber.com/jobs/6879561... #swift #swiftui #hiring

Teaching myself more about LLM cli tools and trying to learn what in the world MCP is. I feel so far behind when it comes to understanding what’s going on in the world of AI. Forever trying to sip from a firehose.

I have two side projects I’ve been working on getting release ready. Needing to take my own advice and remind myself not to wait until they’re perfect, but allow them to exist as MVPs that get improved over time. Also forcing myself to only work on them during weekends. Balance!

All four app updates got approved. Cannoisseur, Legal Terms, ShinyDex all got (very late) Liquid Glass updates. Vinyl Vision got a bug fix. Next, I’m going to try adding some simple App Intents into Legal Terms. It also needs a lot of accessibility work.

My biggest focuses these past few quiet months have been figuring out to be useful at my job, and learning all I can about optimizing SwiftUI code for accessibility tools. For those of you who have been doing this work for a while, how do you feel about the IAAP certs?

Pushed out some long overdue updates for four apps this weekend and it felt *great*. Believe all the things they say about rest! Everything is still in review but hopefully these approvals are smooth.

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.