Tim Broddin

Tim Broddin

@broddin.be

Freelance creative full-stack developer. Mostly Typescript, PHP, Next.js, expo, Laravel, but whatever gets the job done works. Ex-Automattic. 41 | Father of 3 👧👧👧 | Living in Antwerp 🇧🇪 broddin.be / lijsje.be / endgame.now / woordje.be

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Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Nieuw zijprojectje: Pretparkje. Omdat wachten in pretparken suckt. Live wachttijden, historische data en hopelijk ooit een antwoord op de vraag of je nu best vooraan of achteraan in het park begint. pretparkje.be

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Shipped v3.0 of my times tables app for kids today. Premium is free ($5 value) all weekend to celebrate 🎉 What's new: – Streaks & achievements – Home screen widget so progress is always visible – Rebuilt from the ground up in Swift for extra speed Grab it before Monday 👇

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Last month I launched CatBar, a little utility that shows your @RevenueCat earnings in your menubar. I put loads of love into it. It failed miserably. 7 customers. Total.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Which is weird, because I thought it scratched an itch a lot of indie devs would share. It hit #7 on Product Hunt with 132 upvotes. And then nothing. No sales, barely any downloads. I genuinely don't know what I got wrong. I still think it's a good app. I use it daily.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

I was wondering: "what if an LLM could do all the learning I do from inspirational youtube videos". So I made a skill for that: npx skills add TimBroddin/skills --skill youtube-research

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

I've been working on v2.0 of my simple text editor for iOS called TxtEdit. New features include tabs, line numbers & speed 💨. v1 was pure Swift/Storyboards. v2 will be a weird Frankenstein mix of Expo/RN for UI and Swift modules for the editor/file handling and it's really working extremely well.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Wat is er met Two Gallants gebeurd? Van om de vijf botten op een podium en festival, naar poef niks meer. Geen aankondiging, gewoon ergens tien jaar geleden opgegaan in rook in Las Crucias Jail.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

"The internet allowed anyone to publish anything, and it was impossible to verify this new flood of information. We were taught to think critically and be cautious, since we never knew who created anything. Now we have a different problem: we are unsure what created anything." WORD.

pxlnv.comThe Generation GenerationA little over two years after OpenAI released ChatGPT upon the world, and about four years since Dall-E, the company’s toolset now — “finally” — makes it possible to generate video. Sora, as it is cal...
Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

I don’t get all the hate @theverge.com is getting for asking money for a subscription. They’ve been my favorite tech publication since day 1 - and $50/year seems like peanuts considering what they’re giving back.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Soft-launching mijn nieuwe iOS app hier op Bluesky: Endgame. Een stappenteller naar de dood, die ook nog eens toont hoeveel pizza je nog te eten hebt. Of hoeveel scheten je nog te laten hebt. Hier te downloaden: endgame.now/download RT = ❤️ #ios #reactnative #indiedev

Endgame@endgame.now

🚀 Endgame is now available in the App Store worldwide: endgame.now/download 🚀 Endgame shows you how many steps you have left to take, creating an unexpectedly profound way to think about life. But why stop at steps? Track 50+ other countdowns – from pizzas left to eat to showers left to take.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

Several year-long gaps in the commit history. Endless rewrites from JavaScript to TypeScript, from Redux to Redux-toolkit, from React Native to Expo.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

It's strange to realize that many people working in web dev right now weren't around when, for example, Gmail revolutionized the use of AJAX. Me rambling about the web before that must feel to them like a 50-year-old ranting about the Apple II to me. Makes me feel ancient 👴

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

But I'm also truly thankful to have watched the evolution of the world wide web from the (almost) very beginning. It was, and will continue to be, quite the ride.

Tim Broddin
@broddin.be

When I was a kid I imagined that bots were smart programs you could give a task and let loose on the World Wide Web. They would crawl the web and come back when finished. Almost 30 years later this was still science fiction. Until I tried AutoGPT 🤯