This is how I use SpotSavor most of the time. TikTok to a shortcut to save so that if I’m in the area I know where to go. apps.apple.com/us/app/spots... #indiedev #foodie #foodtok #portland #ios

Hey folks, do you ever find yourself scrolling TikTok/Instagram, see an amazing-looking restaurant, and think "I need to go there." Then you save the video, forget about it, and never find it again... Give this app a try! I'm really happy with it. #indiedev #foodie apps.apple.com/by/app/spots...

Took a few months but after a bunch of feedback I think it’s ready for initial release. 🎉 #indiedev #ios #appstore

Spruced up my personal website... I don't know why I spent time on this other than it was fun. It's not perfect obviously but the idea of blog posts as emails was just too whimsical to ignore. Check out the junk folder if you visit!

Lot of field goals. Not complaining. Still rooting for the Seahawks obviously. Just really putting the foot in football.

🔥A couple of releases today! 🔥 New sprite kit tunnel/runner game: apps.apple.com/us/app/taptu... And to make the screenshots I open sourced my little tool that I used to make them. Open to PRs if you want more sizes supported too. github.com/ryleyherring... #indiedev #indiegame #ios

Going between being happy for kids, to reading about another awful ICE news story, to focusing on work related items, back to news, back to kids, back to work. It’s draining. And if you give up they win. But it’s just so taxing. 😪

Finally read Paul Hudsons book about sprite kit that I bought back in 2018 and upgraded my tunnel game. Anyone is welcome to try it here, but it's just a love letter to the old ti83 game I used to play (with some added fun things like ipad keyboard support haha). testflight.apple.com/join/TR72aucv

Watching Alex Honnold climb a 1667 foot tall skyscraper in Taipei right now live and it’s a weird concept. He’s a great climber but the stakes don’t make sense to me. Especially for Netflix to support it live. #skyscraperLive

There are 1000 app store screen creators but I thought I could make a really simple one for my really simple apps and the corner radius with the device outline is killing meeee

Oh no, another update. Letter Linker has a new daily puzzle feature. Minor update, but now the web version daily game matches the app version. 😌 #indiedev #ios #wordgame

RunRev 3.2 is out with a new month and year view of all activities. Really needed a new medium widget to show the month’s progress since I’m running a little less. #indiedev #ios #running

One of my goals was to finally make a website for all my apps, side projects, etc. 3 weeks into the year and I did it (it wasn't that bad; mostly just migrating from free hosting via github pages haha). Next up is to learn how to make an app on atproto. Read too many blogs to not at least try.

Summer vs winter in roughly the same spot, central Oregon is the most relaxing place in the world for me. I love it.

Refactored the tab bar into an air hockey ui type of interaction for the app I made my kids. This way I can add more games. It’s fun for them when they get a little screen time #ios #swiftui #indiedev

Forgot to do my favorite books of 2025 and in the process found out I can export my Libby, audible, and kindle data then parse it into a nice little app. Love making little apps like this. Even if it doesn’t include my physical books, this is still pretty cool. #indiedev #ios #swiftui #books #libby

I think 30-35 is the sweet spot to never use voice memos. People older and younger than me use voice memos all the time and I just cannot get behind the idea. Unc status I guess.

On our world tour of countries (every Christmas we choose a different country to try their cuisine), this year we drew Spain! So we have lots of tapas and seafood and tomatoes etc. Followed by Basque cheesecake. 🥳

12 years ago versus 12 days ago in the same spot. Glad she said yes! 😅

Kinda proud that this TestFlight has been so active. Over 1000 restaurants added #foodie #ios #indiedev #testflight #indie #spotsavor

Watching a Christmas movie and the computer guy was writing an incredible hacking script. 😂

I put out that little TestFlight link and 300 restaurants have been added so far. I don’t have any analytics that save restaurants or anything. Just the number. Kinda cool!

Alright if anyone wants to give it a shot: I don't think this will get a full app store release but being able to send tiktok or insta links to it is really handy. I made a shortcut to do that with a deeplink too. :) #indiedev #ios #swiftui testflight.apple.com/join/YZkXUUWA

Been joking for a couple years that my coworker Lando would win (cause I work for Cisco so I’ll forever claim that we are coworkers haha). But today he actually did it! F1 is just fun. Max is an incredible driver and so is Oscar; glad Lando won this year though.

I know what’ll turn this around. one hundred dollars worth of sushi

Does anyone here like to keep a list of restaurants in their notes or maps? I made an app that lets you takes screenshots or links of instagram/tik toks and with on-device (foundation) models it will extract what it can and add it to a map for you. Feedback on idea welcome. #ios #indiedev

This picture is a void*

Shoutout to DCFC and goat rodeo sessions for being my focus-work-music every year for like 20 years. #spotifywrapped

Yearly reminder to pour one out for the parents 😅 #spotifywrapped

Always love when push notification testing is going on haha. #zillow

Ice rink opened and we got it all to ourselves! 😎 Great start to Thanksgiving weekend.

New absolutely unnecessary update to RunRev with some snow and a new Run Wrapped experience. If you run and wanna see some fun graphs and a year in review (any year with HealthKit information) of your running, then give it a chance. All free. No account necessary. #indie #indiedev #ios #running

Whenever we have guests over that want WiFi I have to explain to them that they need to join guests_of_the_rohirrim instead of router_of_rohan and then there’s long explanation about what that even means. 😬

One of my favorite authors just did an interview about his upcoming final book of a 7 or 8 book series. They asked “what song would you say represents the final book” and he said Nine Inch Nails singing Hurt. I bet everyone will be alive and happy at the end. 🙃 #redrising

Updating the run wrapped feature in RunRev at lunch and when I show my wife she goes “is he farting to run?” 🤦‍♂️😅 And now I can’t decide if I need to update it or go with the fart imagery forever. #indiedev #ios #swiftui

If anyone wants to try a rough draft of free cell without any ads, you're welcome to try this. It won't get full release since there are a ton of other ones but they all have ads. And this one doesn't. That's it. testflight.apple.com/join/y3zjpZht #indiedev #freecell #ios

After working with codex 5 and claude code (sonnet 4.5 thinking) for the last month it's not even close. I don't get the hype over codex 5. Claude clears in every task I've tried (albeit swiftui is all I've been doing recently).

a second sunday could fix me

How are there no free cell apps without a ton of ads? My in-laws play it all the time and get spammed with ads that are hard to dismiss. I kinda hate this UX pattern.

Watching the Hasan stream and the Mamdani acceptance party is just good vibes. Feels good. Hope the rest of the country follows suit. Loved the DSA chant at the beginning too. 🥳

I’m about as far from New York as you can get in the US and I’m still pretty stoked(hopeful) for Mamdani to win. 🤞

Some people don’t get why I live in Oregon. I can explain it really easily. I’m 1 min from my house and this is what I can see. The other direction is a forest. You can’t tell me this isn’t worth it.

Timeline cleanse with some fog this morning. If I had a nemesis I bet they’d love to walk through this to challenge me to something.

Beavers winning 2 in a row. 🥳 #osu

Fortnite servers today

Switched my monthly donation to the Oregon Food Bank since SNAP benefits are going away Nov 1st due to the shut down. It's a really good time to consider donating right now, and most big companies match donations. 👋

On windy days Rosie comes out to pride rock and just sits and surveys the yard. Regal af.

Suffice it to say Portland is doing a-ok if we can play in puddles every day with my kids.

I'm not the only to think this looks like a Nike x Croc collab right?

Portland showing up for no kings. Makes me so happy considering the recent scrutiny we’ve had. #nokings www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...