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joforselldev.bsky.social
Grade school teacher turned iOS developer, currently at Tibber. Maker of bartab.info. Absolutely love learning new things.
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I’ve just had an epiphany. I’ve been trying to figure out how to scale up my app, but what I really should be doing is scaling down 😅 Two things have bothering me with the back end of BarTab for a while now:

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

This is tomorrow! Come and learn some SwiftUI, ask questions while we build the app, and help raise money for charity! 🙌

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know of a way to detect if a screen shows a menu bar? I’d like to move the lights up to the top of the screen when there’s no menu bar but I can’t find a reliable way to detect this.

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

Goals for #swift in 2025 published! Better concurrency, low level performance tools and java interop 🎉 Exciting stuff, lots of goodies coming to server side swift development through these :-) https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-language-focus-areas-heading-into-2025/76611

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for pointers in the distributed systems landscape. Problem: I have users in different geographic locations, so having backend set up in only one place leaves many with slow load times. Solution: I’m looking at attempting to set up distributed postgres database and API layer. cont. ->

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Making good progress with the newsletter!

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone know any good resources to dip your toes in distributed systems?

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Installed Android Studio today, to check something for work. One small step closer to releasing my app on more than one platform 😮 Feels quite far off still with everything else I want to do with the app but never have time for 🫣

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Updated my #buildinpublic per country 🦋 starter packs: 🇩🇪 31 builders 🇬🇧 30 🇺🇸 28 🇮🇳 22 🇫🇷 21 🇪🇸 16 🇨🇦 14 (new) 🇸🇪 13 🇵🇱 10 🇦🇺 10 🇮🇹 9 (new) 🇳🇱 9 (new) 🇦🇹 9 🇵🇹 8 To be added (or start a new country) reply with your flag. Starter Packs below 👇

submitted 97 days ago • 191 comments

How do people generally handle having customers on different continents (in the context of battling latency)? Do you geographically split the database into different instances? Is there some other backend magic I just haven’t learned yet? #buildinpublic

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Dunno how this information evaded me this long, but I learned from @chriseidhof.bsky.social the other day that you can interact with backgrounded apps without bringing them to foreground by CMD-clicking. My life will never be the same. #macOS #mac

submitted 100 days ago • 6 comments

Let's see if my old startup memes can get some traction on bluesky 👀

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments

In 4 months I rewrote our Go backend services in Swift/Vapor after a team member left. Best decision ever - our iOS devs are now fixing bugs across both client & server code. Knowledge sharing FTW! 🚀

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

blueskycounter.com is back online! It now shows historical follower growth all the way back from when you firsted signed up to Bluesky Reposts appreciated 😊

submitted 101 days ago • 32 comments