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Indie iOS dev building a nutrition tracking app called @foodnoms.com. Living in SF Bay Area with @tannersmith.me. 🏳️‍🌈
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Working on my first experiment with AFM: picking an initial icon when saving a food, recipe or meal as a favorite. Works quite well!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This post is a MUST READ if you use Claude Code. spiess.dev/blog/how-i-u...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

o3 is now cheaper than GPT-4o!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Day 0 thoughts: 1. I really like the new look! 2. iOS 26 beta is rough (to be expected). 3. Excited to take the on-device foundation model APIs for a spin. 4. There are some other APIs, e.g. RecognizeDocumentsRequest, that look quite promising! 5. I have a lot of work to do. 6. I am excited.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This is so f'd up

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The era of self-improving software has begun. Of course, it starts with paywalls. tryhelium.com

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🚀 Foodnoms 2025.10 is here with some long-requested features! ⚙️ Customizable Nutrient Summaries: choose which nutrients appear in food and meal previews 📋 Nutrition Label Layout: a simpler, more-convenient layout for nutrition info 🎚️ Active Energy Scaling: scale active energy data from Apple Health

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Hope to see you there!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Feedback submitted: AVCaptureSession interrupted with .videoDeviceNotAvailableWithMultipleForegroundApps on iPhone (not iPad) with 18.4.1 (22E252) Anybody know an iOS Camera or AVFoundation engineer? FB17677854. Includes a sysdiagnose with relevant logs!

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky and Mastodon feeds: LLMs are dumb Meanwhile, in the past few days, Claude and ChatGPT have helped me: - Track down a rare, obscure crash in Foodnoms - Optimize a Postgres query to be 100x faster - Fix a race condition with a Redis-based distributed lock - Implemented a small, delightful UX

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The iOS Dev Happy Hour IRL event signup is LIVE. This will 100% sell out if history is any indicator. If you're going to be in the Cupertino area you're welcome to join us for free! Big thanks to our sponsor @revenuecat.com !

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

TIL @foodnoms.com supports importing recipes from Instagram reels

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

📝 Slopes Diaries 45: Building Trust blog.curtisherbert.com/slopes-diari...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

SQLite Databases in App Group Containers (Don’t): mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05... #mjtsaiblog

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The next big Foodnoms update is almost ready! It includes several quality-of-life improvements and three *very* popular feature requests from over the years.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

📝 New blog post: "SQLite Databases in App Group Containers: Just Don’t”

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

today i did marketing

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote a blog post about a Swift Charts issue that's been bothering me for the longest time and how I finally found a solution for it. Hoping this saves someone some time! chriswu.com/posts/swiftu...

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