Akshay Shah

@akshayAshah
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I’m an iOS developer 📱, Photographer 📸 and an aspiring Cinematographer 🎥 shuffling between San Francisco 🇺🇸 and Mumbai 🇮🇳
Websitehttps://akshayashah.com
Photographyhttps://akshayashah.com/photos/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/akshayashah/
My Micro-Short Filmhttps://vimeo.com/1052845145

@siracusa You would love these car controls!

https://youtu.be/6Wv1btxCjVE

Why Jony Ive put buttons in the electric Ferrari

YouTube
reminder:

The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.

Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.

@shanselman I always wondered about the easily human detectable spam on Instagram, thanks for asking this question. Great episode, loved the discussion of Stochastic programming and bought the book too.

Beautiful essay by Terry Godier about RSS reader UI and software creating obligations:

"An interface that shows you an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation."

Phantom Obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

Terry Godier

#iosconfsg Day 2 Highlights —

1. Accessibility That Engineers Actually Love to Build ❤️ by Jessi Febria
- Best talk on accessibility in recent times with real-world example and action items

2. Speed, Patience & Vibes: Building iOS Apps in Public as a Non-Technical Designer by Fiachra MacFadden
- Great tips on Market research, AI coding tools and using social media for marketing

3. Mobile Identity, Realized by Daiki Matsudate
- Great primer on building identity credentials on devices

#iosconfsg This slide by Vu had everyone in splits :)

#iosconfsg Day 1 Highlights — 

1. Game Development in SwiftUI by Kaylee Calderolla ( @kayleesdevlog )
- Creative, amazing, awesome sauce!

2. Making contactless transaction with CardSession by Peter Wong
- Complexity simplified, cool demo totally worth £500 ;)

3. Using SwiftUI as a Language by Xu Yang ( @fatbobman )
- Well-articulated language analogy for SwiftUI

I laughed
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design