Braden

I made a new app! AudioBookIt helps you manage your files that should be treated as an audiobook as if it were. No more 16 hour long MP3s from @brandonsanderson.com being hard to use! #ios #cosmere apps.apple.com/us/app/audio...

And I have submitted a new build to Apple with much improved Voice Over controls. Hopefully the user likes the changes.

Got the first bit of feedback on my new #iOS game and it was from a blind user. They gave some feedback of how it could be more friendly in voice over mode and I’ve already got about 2/3 of their recommendations in place now.

mvnd somehow depends on harfbuzz? Huh…?

I submitted a new app to the App Store and it took over 3 days to be reviewed but an update to another app took 4 hours? Make it make sense…

I should probably tag more stuff with hashtags if I want them to show up in feeds to get any sort of users and feedback on stuff huh…

Alright now to focus on the app I am actually really excited to ship…

Just shipped another app to the App Store! A small game based on the old CLI game Greed. apps.apple.com/us/app/greed...

Yesterday's event: literally one of the secret keys underpinning internet security was the number 4. Apply your security updates! bsky.app/profile/swtc...

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

I am really excited about this next app I am working on. I think it could be really fun to play if enough people actually install it in each person’s circle.

Google Play Console is garbage compared to App Store Connect and that is saying something. Apple is at least somewhat clear in most of their communication. Google: “ready to publish” means you submitted for review 🤔

I’m trying to quickly prepare for a couple of Candela Obscura sessions and re-reading/fully reading the rulebook. I really like it but find it odd that so much of the Lore stuff come before the “running the game” section. I guess a player could/should care about the lore is why?

The iPhone Duo sim makes me feel like it is going to be a terrible launch experience even for apps that are supporting it from the get go. So many weird layout issues happen as you open/close. It doesn’t report the right size; it seems to shift safe areas significantly as you change how open it is.

It is always nice when the app name you want is available on the App Store 😄

Just finished getting my 3 apps up on the AppStore updated for the Duo and submitted for review! 🔥

I really wish Xcode would respect the Package.resolved more instead of just ignoring it half the time…

Love seeing job advertisements that say “native mobile” then you look inside and it says RN 🙃 such a joke

Added my app to review last night then said, oh I’ll start work on this feature a coworker asked for. Ya it took me like 1.5 hours is all to implement m4b support so now I’m debating do I pull my app out of review and just send it as well. I feel like it is a yes since it was another easy win

@aggrend.bsky.social Doesn’t seem like you are on Bluesky much but if you could check this out I would love any thoughts you have: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/tho...

Oh wow, Xcode 27.2 has a new project file format (xcproj) that is standard JSON, and an open format: I've been waiting for something like this for most of my career! 🎉

"You must spend money to make money" said Frog. "But, you must also spend money to have no money left" replied Toad. "That is true" said Frog.

It is always nice chatting with a co-worker and not feeling like you are crazy afterwards because you have the same complaints and concerns.

Apple has confirmed that #Xcode 27.1 with support for the iPhone Duo will be coming "later this month": https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/ Original: https://techhub.social/@xcodereleases/117243113306816687

Is it even worth replying to that review, probably but I don’t know what to say that isn’t going to be sarcastic at the moment.

Whelp got my first 1 star review on an app I made myself… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry I let you fully test and use my app before asking for any money to import more books?

I should probably update my resume in general… The question is how do I put that I’ve suffered through react native for a year and mostly pivoted during that year to backend. I want to focus on iOS still but I sure as hell don’t want to do more react native or have people try to convincing me on it.

Wow not cool… blaming me for not having a thing when I sent it to you the day before…

Always fun when you co-worker is anxiously awaiting your work and when you send it over 1 minute after they ask for it again and they go AFK for like 30+ minutes…

Pro tip for folks working with Apple documentation: add ".md" to the end of a URL to get it as Markdown – much lighter to load, and also friendlier for agents. Example: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Was all excited for my first trail subscription and it was immediately followed with an unsubscribe 😞 maybe they will still like it and resubscribe or purchase it…

Apparently I made a mistake in introducing my boys to Palworld because now they just fight over who gets to play on the PS5…

I swear my children are more concerned about having 3 meals called breakfast, lunch, and dinner than they are with actually being full…

The POC I’ve been working on is blazing fast on iOS thanks to Metal. On a cheap Android device it is so slow… It takes 3+x the time of a recording to process things… I really need to get hardware acceleration with the GPU working for it but even google is meh on their GPU support for Android…

Why does Apple have 65gigs of simulator backups in /System/Library/AssetsV2 which is a SIP protected folder! 😡 In all my years doing iOS development I’ve never had it show up as a place of eating a bunch of storage… This has been extra painful with work only giving me a 500gb HD

Google hasn’t added any on device LLM stuff like Apple!?!? Foundation Models is so nice for basic LLM tasks. I guess the time has come to cross the hugging face boundary and get that working on iOS and Android once I get whisper.cop fully working.

Just now seeing I can add animations to my load calls… How did I miss this before? It will be so nice to go update stuff to use that and get free animations.

I’m getting to play with on device AI stuff for work and it is so much fun getting to do native stuff again

Just had my first sale on my app that wasn’t friends or family. It pushed me over the threshold of have I spent or made money on my apple developer license this year for the first time. I’m not making tons of money obviously but it feels good to sort of break even for once.