David Smith / is on Nostr

Independent iOS developer. Independent in general. Solo maker of Widgetsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++ and Watchsmith.

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2024-09-16 17:59:33

Each summer I tend to settle on a couple of soundtrack albums which I then listen to on repeat while I work. This summer it was:
The Crown Season 4 and The Two Towers.
I probably listened to each of these a hundred times this summer. Such fantastic focus music.
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2023-11-10 17:34:04

Today's little #visionOSFriday discovery. When you present a modal .sheet(), any ornaments you add to the sheet are pinned to the parent view. Which I found surprising at first but then realized that my confusion was stemming from conceptually misusing sheets. Many situations where I'd use a sheet in iOS are much more appropriately implemented as a new window on visionOS. Sheet's in visionOS probably shouldn’t be massive, complex views.
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2023-09-23 16:13:53

One small bit of joy in all this image processing challenge…for my development testing imageset I use a number of nature photos I've taken over the years. I was going back and forth with one of them today and thought it looked recently familiar.
Opened up the iPhone 15 Pro’s marketing page and realized that one of my testing images is nearly identical to an image Apple is using to promote the 5x camera, which is quite fun.
I took mine at the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye in September of 2016.
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2023-09-18 16:14:35

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@npub1sy6…5dxr Thanks! When I realized it was possible I knew I had to get it built.

2023-09-06 15:05:12

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@npub1sdu…w074 Marco has the most experience with them. I've not done too much with them. Just don't have the bandwidth to spend much time optimizing that. Here are our discussions on UTR: http://podsearch.david-smith.org/shows/12?term=search+ads

2023-08-14 13:59:03

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@npub1sdu…w074 I did a quick look and for Widgetsmith it is around 90% FaceID, 10% TouchID.
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2023-08-11 14:44:39

I've been quiet about my work recently. I feel it’s best to keep my Widgetsmith plans secret for now.
But, I gotta say I feel like I'm really hitting my stride recently with Interactive Widgets. My initial plans and designs were in retrospect laughably simple, this system can handle an incredible amount of complexity (both technical and visual).
I can't wait to share the widget I made today, in my humble opinion it is absolute 🔥.
“You're gonna have a tough time out underscoring Underscore”

2023-07-29 07:09:07

I just finished my first long road trip since installing iOS 17 and I really felt the lack of a StandBy-esque CarPlay mode when you put your phone into a horizontal dashboard mount. I’ve gotten very fond of StandBy in the house, so it seems only right that there would be a similar mode when in the Driving focus mode.