started to explore a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons DM app. i called it Campaign Codex. https://campaigncodex.app/

been doing a lot of agent assisted iOS dev...it has been...fun!!

I am unsure if there is a need for a tool like this in the market but I am becoming more and more curious around databases so this felt like a lower barrier for my product-minded engineer skills to get into.

i've noticed that it is sometimes less about the type of company and more about the immediate manager and their mindset. a competent manager can set expectations with external stakeholders while not overloading their engineers. a good middle manager who can play politics with multiple stakeholders and becomes "liked" really leads to a chill job if they have the correct expectations of their career as well.

I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.

recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!

hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.

thought it would be cool to build something like this. im still building but feel free to download it via testflight and give some feedback: https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ

Decided to pivot and start learning about databases and their internals more. Currently pulling down Clickhouse and reading some code along with the reading the book Database Internals by Alex Petrov.

So I'm technically not "working on" an app...I am working on myself to branch out and attempt to specialize a bit more as I progress in my career.

Any advice/papers/books to read is very welcomed!

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Java, Spring Boot, Elixir, Technical Leadership

Résumé/CV: https://www.commongroundtech.com/

Email: tyler@commongroundtech.com

hey all! i am looking for freelancing work in the Apple ecosystem space (Mac/iOS). I am looking to take on 5-8 hours a week.

available for: ios development, interesting web dev projects

hi im tyler! i have indie experience building Whenish, a productivity scheduling app for Messages (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749). i have scaled starts ups from seed to series c rounds. i am looking to consult on a weekly basis primarily building in the ios space but am open to start ups who need technical guidance and need a fractional cto like role.

never has anything rang truer

The only message that is written to the chat is when you hit submit. There is no external service as all information is stored as metadata on the message itself. I did not want to have an external server (which has its own challenges, see in another message around collisions).

Your entire group can see the message but in order to interact with the poll they will need to download the app. They will be redirected to the app store if they do not have the app after clicking.

this leads to some issues with potential collisions like if two people click the Whenish message at the same time and submit their message, there is no way to merge both that data. while this is an issue, i wanted to err on the side of privacy as much as possible and not rely on a server at all.

i release ios apps under an LLC in hopes that one day an app will make money and i would rather that be associated with an LLC.

good question on past dates! i will fix that :)

if anyone knows about this (i remember i saw a warning by Apple) please let me know!