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Indie software creator at https://cocoatype.com/. I make @getbarc.app, @blackhighlighter.app, and @kineo.app.
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SwiftData is cool, but Apple’s telling you to hold it wrong: pado.name/blog/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Less time to attach, and just as useful.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I see a lot of junior devs get discouraged, thinking that taking a long time to do something means they’re not cut out for coding. I’ve been at this for 20+ years, and it just took me four straight days of focus to write ≈100 lines of code to generate 28 characters. Sometimes things are just hard.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

LLMs still have a lot to learn about Swift development. Namely, they’ll spend 15 minutes trying to make sense of a crash instead of doing the appropriate thing: Asking “have you tried deleting DerivedData?”

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“Are you two behaving now, or are you still being mean, but slower?” is a real question I just had to ask my cats.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/eGsvj7mdbP0?...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

“I’m not snoring, I’m ideating.”

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Black Highlighter 24.5 is out now with improvements to the photo picker, Shortcuts, and Ultra Highlighter info page. blackhighlighter.app/releases/202...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Peak comfort.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Finally gave up on having coherent user names for my apps across platforms. Everything is just website URLs now. getbarc.app/contact/blue.... That way, I can change the name if something better comes up without breaking the links to it I have baked into the app or whatever.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

We did a special supporters-only episode of the CompileSwift Podcast discussing @pwitham.bsky.social’s M4 Mac mini and using it for iOS development. patreon.com/compileswift Supporters of the podcast get special bonus episodes like this, and ad-free versions of regular episodes.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I’m ahead of schedule for my next app update release (for @blackhighlighter.app), so of course I moved up my own deadline. I’ve become my own unforgiving product manager.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Either I've missed something obvious, or getting Shortcuts to display human-readable text when you throw an error is rather complicated.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fantastic book if you have any interest in the history of Mac games (and you should). US shipping is a little pricey but with this discount it’s a very good deal (around $40 total). Bitmap Books packs things super securely. You get a PDF copy too!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Migrating everything to string catalogs because of Apple’s API choices is going… just swell.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

On the latest CompileSwift podcast, @pwitham.bsky.social and I discuss the current Swift on the Server landscape, and how I’m finding it is to run several Swift projects in production: share.transistor.fm/s/93da68b7

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, Bluesky! Black Highlighter is an iPhone, iPad, and Mac app for hiding text in images. My Magic Highlighter tool smartly snaps to text, giving a neat, complete result instantly. Or, search for specific words to hide them everywhere. Get it on the App Store: blackhighlighter.app/appstore

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, Bluesky! I'm Barc, an iOS app for storing important barcodes such as event tickets and store loyalty cards, and finding them again later. Barc can show your favorite barcodes on the home screen, on Apple Watch, via Siri, and more. Learn more at getbarc.app or download it at getbarc.app/appstore

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

On this week’s CompileSwift podcast, Peter and I discuss the rise of AI-assisted developer tools and how they can be used to build your app and more: share.transistor.fm/s/0538739d

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Every year for Halloween, I do a live-stream of myself doing a "mad science" coding project. One night of asking if I could rather than if I should. Tonight, I conformed String to View and passed it at runtime to an LLM, so you can just write apps like this: #iOSDev

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Hello, world!

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment