It is currently in review with Apple and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone. This is an iPad-first dungeons & dragons app focused on empowering dungeon master's as they manage their campaign. inspired by my first DM in my first campaign with friends.
outside of that I started to fiddle around with a cross section of observability and analytics with SDKs...building a little tool to give SDK publishers better insights.
I think its fine to switch stacks after being in one for two decades. It seems they got into React in a sweet spot where perhaps breaking changes have slowed down...perspective is everything! I bet they would have said something else if they got into React several years ago ;)
I am working on a query cost analyzer that looks at query performance and does maths against your infrastructure cost to understand what is your dollar cost per query. The idea is that teams (when tables are tagged appropriately) will be notified with their most costly queries and hopefully makes that actionable for teams to clean up some queries.
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.
SWE is a demanding job in general so just be prepared to actually "work". as others have said look at large companies where tech is not the selling point. insurance, banks, aviation, large fortune 500 companies.
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.
merry christmas everyone! HN has been the first site i open up every morning with a cup of tea for the past 10 years or so. Cheers to a great community of builders & thinkers.
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.
im build an offline-first iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons campaign app called Campaign Codex. i got inspired by watching Critical Role and saw a bunch of them using iPads during their sessions.
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
I was working on a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons app focused on the Dungeon Master called Campaign Codex but I got a little bored with building CRUD apps.
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.
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.
> But the best programming language is like the best wine. Different people like different things, and that's OK. Drink whatever is the best fit for your palate, and code in whatever is the best fit for your brain.
this app never reads any messages. the iMessage framework is very strict around privacy...so much so that you are unable to get user information of. This is why you will see Participate 1, 2, 3 instead of the person's name. There is no way to get this information of who the sender is! Kudos to apple for this.
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.
there is no external server! all meeting information is stored as metadata on the message.
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.
It is currently in review with Apple and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone. This is an iPad-first dungeons & dragons app focused on empowering dungeon master's as they manage their campaign. inspired by my first DM in my first campaign with friends.
its been fun to hack on :)
TestFlight here for anyone curious! https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ