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My client office is in Palo Alto so have been eating and hanging out in the few places open in Los Altos. Just got an uber into Mountain View, dang wish someone told me about this place at the start of the trip!

Wow cyber trucks look even weirder IRL. I guess they make a statement ….

In SF for the week, so nice to escape the uk weather !

Not sure what’s happened with safari recently on Mac, starting to see it regularly eat up all my ram. Routinely using up 14gb. Not doing anything other than have about half a dozen tabs open

Come say hi!

In #SwiftUI we have a convenient way to set a view's background to a shape, like a capsule or rounded rectangle, using the background(_:in:) modifier. This works great when we need to place a single shape behind a view: nilcoalescing.com/blog/SetASha...

Damn it, just got engagement farmed by a ‘I was interviewing a guy and he was clearly using copy paste for his answers’ on threads

If you know anyone who recently got their first iOS dev job and you think they might be interested in sharing their story with @iosdevhappyhour.com could you let me know? It's challenging to find those people now!

Happy most productive week of the year to anyone working for a US company outside of the US

Xcode AI auto complete in an interview scenario is bot a blessing and a curse. I was given an absurd ‘real world problem’ and had to come up with a solution using a playground. I opted to use models and descriptive functions as part of talking through my approach. When it came to implementing ..

SwiftUI environment makes it easy to pass data down the view hierarchy. I have a post that covers how to work with it, including reading and setting values, defining custom keys, using it with Observable. If you’re working with #SwiftUI, you might find it helpful: nilcoalescing.com/blog/SwiftUI...

Lets see if this site is a great at finding talented developers as that dead bird site used to be. We're hiring in Cupertino, San Diego, Seattle and Vancouver BC for a bunch of different roles. jobs.apple.com/en-us/search...

Had the worst interview yesterday, Staff engineer role, 3rd round. They pitched it as a sample sprint in a day. Meet the team, discuss a problem, write stories, pair, present results. This already seemed like a lot both in terms of time commitment (~5 hours) and steps/work.

Weird intro post: I was laid off last Friday! I’m an iOS/visionOS/React Native dev, UX designer, and I've been Product Director and Tech Lead. I’ve created lots of apps featured by Apple and others, some with millions of users. I’ve led a successful consulting firm. Know people doing awesome work?

Started to put together a starter pack with iOS developers I follow on Bluesky - Let me know who is missing! go.bsky.app/7wmo12t #iosdev #indiedev

Okay, new here, would welcome any #iosDev recommendations.