David Smith

@_Davidsmith
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Independent app developer. Independent in general. Maker of Widgetsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++ and Watchsmith.
Bloghttps://david-smith.org
Podcasthttps://www.relay.fm/radar
Widgetsmithhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319
Pedometer++https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pedometer/id712286167
David Smith2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/116398205988680627

I’ve been using this recently and it is super helpful. I must frame dozens of screenshots a week and always looking for more efficient workflows for it.

Also just very cool see how far @viticci has been able to push Shortcuts. He’s a wizard:🧙🏼‍♂️

David SmithMar 31

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/116319618506552344

What are the odds that Lil' Finder Guy is in the goodie bag at WWDC this year? Now that would be epic.

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@simonbs My word, so many apps!
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@illogical_me 😳, 0 is possible…but awful if received. I think I’ve come close to it one a red-eye flight once or twice.
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@angomarcello The dock has a short range wireless receiver in it (I think) which is then turned into a USB signal. So you don't actually plug anything in, just lay it on the dock.
Show threadDavid SmithMar 20
Had my Apple Watch dock for less than 30 minutes and already found a bug in my app which has been lurking for years because attaching the debugger to the watch's widget extension never worked properly over WiFi.
Show threadDavid SmithMar 20
@glotcha I use both the Codex app and the Xcode integration, depending on what I'm doing. For localized, small changes I find the Xcode integrations is best. For large, sweeping analytics tasks I find the Codex app is best. But all very fluid and ever changing.
David SmithMar 20

RE: https://mastodon.tz.is/@khaost/116253127280820238

OMG, @khaost is my hero. They posted about this Apple Watch repair dock which allowed for direct connection debugging in Xcode. Just got mine in the mail and it 100% works. For the first time in my 11 years of active watchOS development that I can reliably/quickly step through code running on device.

It is a bit pricing and does feel a little bit sketchy in terms not being officially supported but I don't care…it will save me huge amounts of time and gray hairs to not doing it wirelessly.

Show threadDavid SmithMar 20
@khaost Oh nice, mine is arriving today (very excited to try it out). My current plan is to dig around in my drawer of old watch straps and see if I can modify/adjust one of them to attach it to the block.
David SmithMar 20

While I don't yet feel like I have fully settled on how the I'll end up using LLMs in my day-to-day programming tasks, I have found a handful of prompts which I repeatably find to be generally useful and applicable regardless of whether I'm manually or agentically programming.

These are for:
- SwiftUI Previews
- Realtime Documentation
- Newly Localizable Strings
- Testing Plans
- Bug Finding
- Draft Release Notes

Detailed here: https://david-smith.org/blog/2026/03/20/generally-useful-prompts/