Lena

Lena

@gans.lena.fancygoose.dev

🪿👩🏼‍💻🖌️ (used to be _tea_lena_) Fancygoose.dev 3x Swift Student Challenge winner ‘The Assembler’ on the AppStore CS Student Prev: Intern at the LEGO Group, Student at VW

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My app “The Assembler” is now available on iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro! Of all my projects, this is my favorite one, if you try it, I hope you like it too! 🫂🤩 I originally made it as an iPad app for Swift Student Challenge 2022, and it’s come so far since then. apps.apple.com/de/app/assem...

I gave in to to the marketing I received on Instagram (my feed is full of it). I’m getting into Lino print/ making stamps. It’s actually super fun and I made my first two today!

I’m making a timetable app for students, and the chances that any of them will have an iPhone Duo is close to zero, but for some reason the app is now optimized for iPhone Duo 😂

I’ve been using the Health medication tracker to remind me to take them. But there are so many weird (?) limiting choices. Why can’t I say “remind every X hours” or “7 day” or “15 pills”? No, I have to enter a time plan with spexific times during the day, that I have to calculate myself

And the end has to be a date as well. It can’t be a certain amount (like after 15 pills/ until the box is empty), no, last dose is like in the time plan, at the end of that date, after taking all doses. Which is odd. Wat if the number of doses is not evenly divisible by the number of days?

I had the issue that when navigating, Siri would sometimes tell me instructions in English. At first I thought I was hallucinating, bc no one had ever had that issue. My mom has also experienced that issue. I heard Siri say “at the next roundabout - gradeaus durchfahren“

In German she also now has this tick where she constantly says “geringfügige Richtungsänderung“ whenever I am supposed to make a turn that isn’t exactly 90degrees (This started two months ago, in iOS26 with no beta)

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What a @cocoaheads_hh today 😍 Really glad so many people came and the talks have been simply amazing. I'm so grateful for this community ❤️ Posting some pics the next days.

I cleaned my kitchen and found like four bags of polenta, so I decided to make cornbread? (I don’t even like polenta) I made mine with cheese and dried tomatoes (maybe it’s innovative, maybe it’s a food crime) but it’s gluten free!

I have booked my flights (well, not a return flight yet) and I will be at iOSDevUK this year! Super excited to be back in Aberystwyth again 🤩🤩🤩

Working on the next release for one of my apps. Why are AppStore screenshots always a so difficult? (Also why did I make a watch companion???? This wasn’t the plan???)

Has anyone here some tips for using TestFlight for an Apple Watch companion app? The build got approved, and it’s installed on the phone, but the watch app isn’t updating apparently… is there something I need to do? Something they can do?

I am trying to make my own iMessage sticker pack. Why? Because so far I haven’t been stopped. So I needed some assets for the stickers. One Uni lecture later and I have these:

For university I had to record and transcribe an interview, so I tried MacWhisper for it, and whilst I wasn’t sure if it was going to work initially, it actually was really good! Transcript is super solid, only had to change some acronyms, and adding speakers was really easy! Setup was easy too! 🤩

The other solution would have been using OBS and tbh, I did not understand how that app works at all. (But to be fair, I only gave both apps about 30 seconds to either work the way I wanted it to out of the box or leave my laptop)

Sooo. I have to write something about “The Metaverse” and I have been trying to research some user numbers. Just for fun. (Ok it’s for a graded essay) one website claims it’s got 600mil users. Apparently they count Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox and just add all those numbers.

I was more looking for user numbers on Horizon worlds, decentraland and sandbox or Second Life. Are there any other big players in that space that I am missing? Do Roblox and so on count as metaverse?

Something I will never understand is why you would choose to use your cars horn to say “I’m here” when picking someone up late at night. (11:30-1am) this seems to happen regularly here tho.

I’m experimenting with image generation in swift. The images are just soooo good, I can’t explain but look at this dolphin and tell me that’s not an amazing image. 😂🤩🐬 (It’s cropped out of a screenshot)

Having to write an 8 page essay for uni. It’s about Anthropomorphism and AI. I don’t know where this essay is headed, but currently it’s literally just trying to convey that your AI is probably not its own person. I have so many sci fi examples to pad the length of this.

I cannot be stopped, I will be making more robot symbol variants. (I needed this bc I am adding an AI feature to my app, and I do not like the sparkle) I would love if I could animate an eye rotation, but I have not figured that out yet. (Also the naming is bad, I know)

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It’s my first day at uni today. For my masters degree changed to a different uni in a different city. I don’t know anyone here and I’m both scared and excited. I know everything will turn out ok, but that doesn’t change the nervousness.

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Apparently some classes aren’t yet happening? I was told it’s bc of Easter? So my class this morning actually isn’t happening. And it seems that my class later today isn’t happening as well.

I’m not even sure when that later class is bc they say it starts tomorrow but that can’t be true. There is a different class tomorrow that would happen at the same time. Both are mandatory so they can’t both happen tomorrow at that time 😭

It’s my first day at uni today. For my masters degree changed to a different uni in a different city. I don’t know anyone here and I’m both scared and excited. I know everything will turn out ok, but that doesn’t change the nervousness.

Oh no apparently I didn’t sign up for a thing correctly last semester. I just had to hand in some stuff for it and I did that but apparently I had to sign up both in person and online (I did only in person) I didn’t even find the online signup 😭 now I have to call people and hope it’s fixable

I make an app for teachers timetables. I was quite proud to have released a big update and an in-app event for v2.0 last week. Something that only occurred to me now is that it’s currently Easter holiday for teachers in Germany. 🫠😂 well maybe I will time things better next time…

Started a new painting today. It’s been nice having some time for this. ✨ I really need to get some practice in, I feel my mountains are too flat… (and I’m missing all of the details) (This is a copy of a different painting, but my mountains are a bit too tall, and too high up on the page)

Finished it. Don’t mind the pink tape I used to pin it and the other painting to the wall. I don’t have the correct rolls to hang it properly, and I don’t want to drill into the wall for a frame (I don’t have). & I don’t want them to be rolled up in a box until I forget they exist.

I have updates ready for two apps, and I thought “whilst I’m here, I should redo the screenshots” Well well well. Making the screenshots is easy. Figuring out my horrible file structure and finding my templates? Impossible. Why did past-me do this to present-me?

I have updates ready for two apps, and I thought “whilst I’m here, I should redo the screenshots” Well well well. Making the screenshots is easy. Figuring out my horrible file structure and finding my templates? Impossible. Why did past-me do this to present-me?

However. I also find myself unable to submit for review, bc I am scared that there are still bugs and that I will find them tomorrow and then I have to resubmit immediately. I know that’s dumb.

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Art of Flora is AVAILABLE NOW! 🌸 🦆 Sister app of Art of Fauna (App Store Award & ADA winner) 🌱 A cosy puzzle game based on real historical plant art 🫶 20 % are donated to nature conservation 🦾 Big focus on accessibility 🧑‍🎨 Artist gallery 🎻 Beautiful sounds 🧒 Kids mode Please spread the word! 🙇‍♂️

I’m going to Oslo! 🥳 Does anyone have recommendations or what do or what to skip? I’ve been looking at some museums and some art workshops, but I also want to see the city. (And I only have two days) ❄️🥳

Something I would really like is if my watch got what kind of sports I’m doing more accurately. I go horse riding every Friday, I have a calendar event called horse riding and the location has a horse riding center on maps. Still, after 30 minutes my watch goes “are you running outdoors?”

Same with badminton on Sundays. Yes I could remember to start it, but usually I forget. Last Friday I remembered but apparently did not hit start correctly so my watch did not record and thought I was running indoors after 30 minutes.