🖤 My apps are on a Black Friday sale! apple.co/3MblwxW It was brought to my attention that Black Friday is today - not last week 😅 So I’ve extended the discounts until next Tuesday (December 2nd) Track your goals, scores, time and money - now at lower prices! #BuildInPublic #indieDev #BlackFriday

“At some point, everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south and you're going to say: "This is it.This is how I end.” Now, you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That's all it is.”

Getting there with my SwiftUI-like DSL and rendering library for Swift. It's effectively an immediate mode GUI, and has a simplified set of internals for state management. #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

@plasticcraic.bsky.social are you into 3D printing at all? I watch this YouTube channel, where he designs and prints Transformers www.youtube.com/@nectarmecha...

Relaying some of the online discourse of the last few days to someone who has been very much offline for the last week. I've found myself wondering if (gestures at everything over the last 5-10 years) this timeline is the clearest evidence that someone actually achieved time travel 🤔

btw, if you tried the app and have thoughts on how to make it work better for you, just let me know on any of the socials or use the "contact support" button in-app! 😍

🚀 Swift is now officially supported on Amazon Linux 2023! This makes deploying Swift apps to AWS easier than ever. Try it: sudo dnf install swiftlang. The future of Swift keeps getting brighter... @awscloud.bsky.social #Linux docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023...

Sitting outside in the NZ sun, thinking about a bunch of things looking at my garden and thinking about the last 2 summers in this house. A change of direction this year. I've planted a few different things. I'll do things differently with what I've learnt. A metaphor.

Some personal news: I’m wrapping up my time at @foodnoms.com! Working with @ryanashcraft.com has been a delight, and I’m really proud of everything I got to help ship If you’re building something great for iPhone, I’d love to chat!

I am working extremely hard for Black Friday sale though New chapters, much better work academy.rudrank.com

I found this to be a very compelling argument for why generated AI output (research, images, code, etc) can feel really great to you, while no one receiving that content cares very much.

🥳 New review of my time-tracking app Moons. As a UX designer and Fine Arts Academy graduate, I’m really happy to know that this user from the UK finds my app both “beautiful and practical” 🥰 Check out Moons on the App Store: 📲 apps.apple.com/app/id163217... #buildinpublic

💪 8 PRs for Swift libraries to support Windows and counting. Let's make this happen!

Ah, I've got shaders running and displaying in a view in my immediate mode GUI for #Swift

Cutting down lavender.. trimming and potting the cuttings #Gardening #GardeningNZ

Having Claude Code handle some sweepy broomy exercises, and I feel like this is the sort of thing it can really shine at. Very much a linter on steroids

KDE Fedora 43 upgrade was so smooth 🤩! Some companies are famous for trying to make things that "just work", but this particular FOSS, maintained-by-volunteers OS raises the bar to "you don't even know something substantial happened" levels of just works.

Spent some of this afternoon building a 3D printed Optimus Prime figure (he'll actually transform!). One of my birthday presents from last week 🎁 This file on Cults3D - cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/... So much fun 😊 #Transformers #3DPrinting

1/7 I'm excited to share something I've been working on since April: build.ms/ai. It began when @jeremyb.bsky.social came by and I told him I could teach him enough about AI in three hours to build his app idea. We didn't *quite* finish, but to quote him "I'm so grateful I've found this new hobby."

Further progress on my immediate mode Swift GUI today, toggles are working! 😅 Not pictured here but also today: Multitouch A type safe debug printer so I can mute different parts of the stack (at 60fps it gets spammy) And a whole bunch of logic in the drag system #Swift #ImmediateModeGUI

what if we all just stopped using AWS?! 👀

I managed to bork my ForgeJo instance when upgrading the container… linode's backups have failed. Time for some change. I'm planning to bring it all onto my home server, and then push remote backups to a Hetzner storage box. Right now, I've no need for anything publicly served

I've a head full of things for my UI library for Swift and iOS I want to add next. I want to get it my own 0.1 capability and then swerve off to see if I can get it running on Android. So far this experiment has been a lot of fun. But today, is garden chores 😃

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android

Just watched the S3 finale of Invasion. Loved it. I’d be really down with another arc.

My friend @iamkonstantin.eu just released his new app. Check out Flowvi.be and create playlists for different moods from your music library. 🎵 Flowvi.be on the App Store: apps.apple.com/pl/app/flowv... #indieDev #music

Sure yup, it looks a bit like this -

My immediate mode GUI in Skia, with a SwiftUI like DSL. Look ma, I made ZStacks! 🙌 #IndieDev #SwiftDev

Since visibility on this is a really big challenge I just wanna say that I still mask in public spaces. I wear a mask when around anyone who doesn’t practice similar precautions. If you do too, you are not alone and I appreciate you so much. If you don’t, you can *always* start again.

Pretty cool feature just merged into SwiftLint. It’s a rule to catch public API that accidentally breaks Swift 5 compatibility (which I have done a number of times) github.com/realm/SwiftL...

Ha! I was just searching how to quickly integrate @telemetrydeck.com with Phoenix Telemetry for a couple of custom metrics and actually landed on my blog post from 2 years ago!! Thank you past me 😅 iamkonstantin.eu/blog/phoenix...

My advice is to go from 1 to 10 one concept at a time, rather than go to 11 on everything at once. That or take one of my workshops (build.ms/ai 😉), which have proven to be very effective for everyone who’s taken one. 🙂

Using the app "Gentler Streak" (https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/workout-tracker-gentler-streak/id1576857102) has been really helpful the last couple of days. It flagged I needed to rest this morning, and I chose not to go ham on garden work or for a walk. It was right 😀

I was already excited about Claude Skills but after reading Simon's blog post I see *even more* potential. In the same way I keep scripts around, I can just make a skill to do things like "download a YouTube video and make it an mp3", and it will be able to do that without me having to write code.

Swift on Android is rapidly taking off! Here's the first talk I've seen on a conference - and it's a solid one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGl...

Exactly 1 year ago, I went full indie. 🥳 I gave myself a year to make this somehow work. But I would have *never* expected this. - Art of Fauna came out & is now my most successful game! 🦆 - I won an Apple Design Award 🧊 - I launched PocketShelf with Frank! 📚 - I spoke at 6 conferences 💬 1/2

My latest side project is shaping up to rebuilding my own SwiftUI like DSL, using SKIA to render. It's… fun. I'm building up things as I need them, and getting to control this side of the stack is making my brain ping a bit. The dopamine hit is strong

My app @flowvi.be is available for preorder 🤩! If you have a large Apple Music library and you need some background music while doing chores 🧹, this is for you 😉🎶 #IndieDev #AppleMusic #HomeDJ #IoT apps.apple.com/be/app/flowv...

🚀 New blog post! AsyncCombine: Because Async Code Shouldn’t Be Ugly I brought back Combine’s sink, assign, and CombineLatest - but built powered by Swift Concurrency. Observing @Observable from another ViewModel shouldn’t be painful. Here’s how I fixed it 👉 lumley.io/blogs/async-...

Something cool about @flowvi.be is that it works on your existing Apple Music library. There is no "discovery" and your listening history is never accessed. All playlists are created on-device simply based on the song mood. It's intelligent, but no AI is involved.

I did my civic duty, and voted at the last minute today in NZ's local elections. Here's hoping we don't get too many nasties in!

I've got fair far already with wrapping ImGUI up for iOS, bridging, then calling it from Swift. Next is create a DSL with styling modifiers, grids etc, see how things go from there with some basic animations. It remains to be seen if it will be fully useful for my app, but I'm having fun with it 😃

My lovely partner Sara has recently started a masters in London which is Cool and Exciting but also means we're paying two rents for the time being which is Expensive and Annoying. So now would be a great time to buy one/some of my apps benricemccarthy.com/apps/inde...

One for #Caturday - Stevie caught in a bleep

A lot more to do yet, but it's taking form

“Hello World” ImGUI on iOS, running on top of ANGLE for the rendering engine. I’ve a lot more to do yet to make this useful for me but the bones are looking good 😀

Just a few days until I launch my new app on iPhone and iPad! It's called Flowvibe - it takes the songs you already love and turns them into personalised, mood-based playlists! No robots involved, just science and good vibes. You can pre-order it here: apps.apple.com/be/app/flowv... #IndieDev

Gods of the AppStōr, please find more friends for this cat 🐈 from my Proceeds chart 📊 Many big big friends. Climbing a huge steep mountain 🏔️ and carrying a giant hockey stick 🏒 🥹 To support my ProceedsCat, please follow this link: apple.co/3MblwxW #buildinpublic #iOSdev #indieDev

Watching Invasion S3. Some definite pandemic undertones in these first few episodes. Everyone’s moved on, lots of denial about any ongoing threat.

The mental rabbit hole I've been prodding. Could I use ImGui via a C bridging layer, from Swift? It's an idea that won't quit, which means I'll likely FAFO soon 🫠