Busy as ever

I’ve sucked at posting, and that was the original idea for creating Inkwell. I wanted to write for myself, but I’ve been distracted by building, work, life, school, and so on. I’m entering my last few weeks of undergrad (finally), so I’ll have a heavier school workload. I’m also

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Busy as ever

I’ve sucked at posting, and that was the original idea for creating Inkwell. I wanted to write for myself, but I’ve been distracted by building, work, life, school, and so on. I’m entering my last few weeks of undergrad (finally), so I’ll have a heavier school workload. I’m also

Busy as ever

I’ve sucked at posting, and that was the original idea for creating Inkwell. I wanted to write for myself, but I’ve been distracted by building, work, life, school, and so on. I’m entering my last few weeks of undergrad (finally), so I’ll have a heavier school workload. I’m also …

https://inkwell.social/stanton/busy-as-ever

#Inkwell #WorkLifeBalance #BuldInPublic #Fediverse

Busy as ever

I’ve sucked at posting, and that was the original idea for creating Inkwell. I wanted to write for myself, but I’ve been distracted by building, work, life, school, and so on. I’m entering my last few weeks of undergrad (finally), so I’ll have a heavier school workload. I’m also

Some major design changes. Updated the theme colors to work better on a black background. Much happier with results. #buldinpublic

Also I have a nice UI for opting into specific test views on device. This video shows my first Easter Egg: what happens if I have 52 postcards on screen at once?

#swiftui #sharedPhotography #BuldInPublic

I was unhappy with some transition states between different screens, so I built a new example to test how to programmatically transition between experiences. Even with #swiftui, this was surprisingly annoying to do by hand, rather than with a NavigationView or the like.

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The fun really starts to happen when you have sent many #postcards already.

#SwiftData #sharedPhotography #BuldInPublic #swiftui

A plethora of newness: fun flippable exploration of cards, new #SwiftData model that can now store n postcards that you’ve sent previously, onboarding that teaches a la “Super Mario Bros” Level 1-1, and a bunch of other under-the-hood improvements.

#sharedPhotography #BuldInPublic #swiftui

Just realized, much to my chagrin, that my data model for postcard relationships is a linked list: any postcard can have zero or more parents or children. I thought this was just a thing for tech interviews?!

This doesn’t change anything, as I’ve had the data model implemented for almost a year, but it is funny to me nonetheless.

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