Waylist is coming to iPad and the Apple Vision Pro! One last feature in the works and then it will be ready for review. Hopefully have it ready to download by the start of next week. Get version 1.9 of Waylist from the App Store now! apps.apple.com/us/app/wayli...

Googled and found optimisations I didn’t even know where there for the taking. 10+ commits over 20+ files later and I have a .1 release for testing. Still not quite fixed one bug I have but getting there…

Insane to think it’s been 21 years since #lfc won their fifth Champions League title. A game I’ll never forget and I need to watch the new documentary on Netflix.

Ridiculously excited about the optimisations I’ve just made to Waylist. Should provide some nice performance improvements and a bit of simplification when it comes to handling larger data sets. Excited to try it out and hopefully push the build out soon #SwiftUI

I built this feature in under 24 hours but took another day to finish a few bits off then another day for the App Store Review. Waylist 1.7 is now in the App Store and you can drag to reorder the items on a day in your itinerary as well as 7 other enhancements! Already working on the next build 😊

Waylist was born out of being annoyed with Guides in Apple Maps. One of my febrile features I’ve implemented is routing that visualises glue your itinerary is ordered. This is an example for one of our days in Barcelona later this year. www.wearesimplifying.com/apps/waylist

Been working on some updates to Waylist and after much searching and prototyping I have to concede defeat on being able to drag to… OMFG topping and I just realised what the solution obviously needed to step away for a bit. It won’t be the elegant solution I want but it’s a necessary compromise.

Ooof! What a finish from Tielemans for Villa!

Wanted to do Couch to 5k for a long time but always a reason not to. Finally started the program and even though every week looks intimidating to someone who has always struggled to run… it’s working! www.1thingaweek.com/week/445/cou...

Two days of not writing code has reminded me that I should step away more often. Powering through a problem rarely brings the right result. Not going to rush the next couple of updates to Waylist and will make some time for Team Sheets too.

The only thing that could make this season worse would be to watch the USA team lift the World Cup in the summer. I don’t need Trump weighing in on world football in my life. Absolutely shit show from the beginning of the season and it never really got better. Here’s to going again in August! 🍻

Even I’m booing Mac Allister. Out of the whole squad he’s been the biggest let down this season. #lfc

Announcing Waylist v1.5 in the Apple App Store! Waylist is built with Swift. It's what Guides in Apple Maps should be. apps.apple.com/us/app/wayli...

Built using #SwiftUI and #SwiftData, Waylist is what Guides in Apple Mario’s should have been. Get Earliest in the Apple App Store apps.apple.com/app/id676098...

Losing the will to live with SwiftData and multiple relationships in an app. Going back to basics tomorrow and seeing if what I want is even possible or worst case identifying there’s something wrong in my app! 😬

Waylist 1.5 in the works, might submit it tomorrow 🤞 Already testing it and loving the next bit of functionality it brings with it!

Hmmm might have a winner with the Link Presentation framework, almost had to give up on a feature I was building with SwiftUI but I think this avoids implementing APIs per service. Anyone used it before? Other than Messages, can’t really think if I’ve seen it used developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Metas approach to the web is just infuriating. Building on an open platform but building walls all around you.

6th, and probably the biggest, update for Waylist has been submitted. Built from the ground up using #SwiftUI it’s what Guides in Apple Maps should be. I have a handful of promo codes to give away. Leave a comment with your dream #holiday destination and I’ll send one to the first 10!

Sad situation when I’m “happy” my borough didn’t pick Reform but stuck with Tories forever it seems 😩

British people looking at the US and thinking “yeah, we could do with a bit of that because Brexit just wasn’t dumb enough” 🤦‍♂️

Building out a gallery of guides for Waylist. Ended up having to write a script to process URLs into usable data. Worth the effort but another dev task that feels like it will take minutes but takes forever!

Not sure I could tell you what I did wrong, but this video got me there eventually with joint Liquid Glass buttons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nQ...

Having serious trouble understanding the point of SwiftUI’s GlassEffectContainer when the documentation is so poor. Found a video that might get me over the line but time to take a break and get back to it with a fresh mind. developer.apple.com/documentatio...

And just submitted v1.3 for review that includes a tiny bit of prep for the future. Need to take a step back and build out some data before jumping in. Need to force myself to do the right things in the right order as I went down a rabbit hole the other day that led to nowhere!

Waist launched a week or so ago and has already had two big updates with more to come. apps.apple.com/us/app/wayli...

Not often you get to see a fresh new Banksy out in the wild!

This is probably the best article I've read on scroll-driven animations: www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sc...

My next big battle with #SwiftUI in Waylist is clustering map points. I know it’s possible, Apple Maps does it, but just can’t figure out how!

This is a neat summary of the effects of gen-AI related Enshittification that I hadn’t seen before

Back at it with #SwiftUi and have submitted v1.1 of Waylist for review! I wrote about the app on blog this week, it’s great to be able to introduce it to the world! www.1thingaweek.com/week/444/int...

Next up for Waylist is deep linking so I can expose Guides through Siri. Have already learnt a lot about Swift and SwiftUI and just levelling up more and more 💪

Waylist is live in the App Store and i have some promo codes you can use to get it for free, reply and I’ll DM one while they last apps.apple.com/us/app/wayli... Built with #Swift #SwiftUI and #SwiftData!

Waylist is live in the App Store! I put together a short intro video for the app www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IeB...

🎉 After much tweaking and testing, Waylist has now been submitted for App Store Review!

Sat here wondering why URLs are so bad in Instagram. Why can’t they just put the handle in the URL? Would make integrations way more flexible than they currently are.

Stumbled across a MapKit video for SwiftUI to find out I might have over engineered a feature in my app. Had a quick play and don’t think I have but it has given me continuing to think about pre-launch or for the first update 🤔

I love my own C Class, which is about to be 2 generations old. The new one looks massive and I don't like the illuminated grill or tri-star lights. I've seen the new CLA in the wild and quite like the car but the rear lights are odd although they fit this model a little better.

Spent hours in my new SwiftUI app testing it over the past couple of days. One bug left to squash and lots of features and enhancements planned already.

Reinstalling the app fixed it 🤷‍♂️ Now tweaking bits and pieces while testing thoroughly before getting into the App Store. Already planning updates and further enhancements but need v1 out before I even contemplate any of those.

Almost declared success with my SwiftUI / SwiftData app this evening only to find out data isn’t actually being synced to the production CloudKit database. Not in the development one either. One for tomorrow. Getting closer! And this morning’s related blog post: www.1thingaweek.com/week/442/pop...

Some aspects of app development are just soul destroying. Finally got my app to where it needs to be, just the share extension to enable a key feature. Of course it doesn’t work anymore. Over that hurdle, now the share extension has no data coming through which means I can’t push data into the app 🤦‍♂️

I thought episode 8 was the final of the Scrubs reboot but I'm now unreasonably happy to find out that there's a 9th episode tomorrow for me to watch!

As my SwiftUI adventures continue, I’ve made some great progress tonight. Need to push on a bit more so I can push the app to TestFlight but also need to figure out some data migrations as I’ve been using the old app in anger and I have hundreds of bits of data I want to copy across.

Not a bad performance from #lfc tonight but used our luck last season it seems. Shame there’s a World Cup in the way as a full pre season could be the difference between consistency and complacency. Play like that in the league and the CL places don’t look out of reach at all.

Rewriting the app has been therapeutic and a little frustrating. Getting there though. I had even settled on the wrong terminology which I’m rectifying now. Loads done but a fair way to go before I reach parity with the original build. Getting a little less annoyed with #SwiftUI each time too

So there’s a killer feature missing so testing the current version as the prototype and I’ve started again. It’s given me a chance to look at simplifying and streamlining a few things. About half way there with the layouts and navigation but a little way to go until it’s ready.

The hardest thing about supporting Liverpool right now is when my son asks me how the game was the morning after and he’s too young for me to just tell him that it was fucking shit.

Said goodbye to my Canon nifty fifty and replaced it with the newer STM model. Completely different thread size so meant buying yet more accessories for it. But got a good chunk of money back for the old one thankfully.

Melincourt Falls was weak with the visit. Not seen a proper waterfall up close for a long time and so easy to forget there are some just a drive away #photography