Doug Burns

@dougburns
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Golfer, skier & (casual) runner living in western NY. Former HBO Go/Now/Max engineer & leader, now focused on smaller projects.

Developer of Caddieapp, a full-featured, standalone #golf app for #AppleWatch (and #iOS too), built in #SwiftUI. Available at https://caddie.app

Also, developed the NextStop NYC Subway App for iPhone. First released in 2010 and still going strong.

Happit is available now on iOS, for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch!

It's the habit tracker that I wanted to use myself, connected to Apple Health and with different views to let you visualise your consistency.

I've got lots of plans, and more I want to both polish and add, but you've got to release some time right?

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Boosts very much appreciated

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/health-habit-tracker-happit/id6563138832?ct=mastodon&platform=iphone

#indiedev #ios #iosapps #

‎Health Habit Tracker - Happit

‎Build consistent habits with Happit! See your progress over time with visual tiled charts, and stay accountable as you fill up your grids. Happit can help you achieve your goals, whether you're trying to building a new habit or break an old one. Key Features: - Quick habit creation and tracking -…

App Store

This is neat

https://ismy.blue/

Is my blue your blue?

Test your color perception with this interactive test.

Hey iOS dev friends 👋
My team is looking for an experienced full-time iOS developer with great knowledge of SwiftUI, preferably based in Berlin. DM me if you’re interested and I’ll be happy to share more details 🙌
Reposts appreciated! 🙏
#fedihire #iosdev #swiftui
How Government Wrecked the Gas Can

I’m pretty alert to such problems these days. Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice.

Foundation for Economic Education

As much as I'd like it if everyone just believed me that things were working exactly the way I say they are, I've found https://TestLocal.ly to be a hugely helpful tool for providing peace of mind to my stakeholders (and confirming resolution of CDN and caching issues).

I blogged about its many usefulnesses.

https://blog.mistressofinformation.com/a-small-plug-for-testlocally/

TestLocally

Use geolocation to take screenshots from different countries around the world, so you can see the impact of your localization efforts

TestLocally

There's a certain irony in a cyber security company accidentally deploying the most effective cyber attack we've seen in recent memory.

#crowdstrike #bsod

One more shot ✨
I'm genuinely so happy right now.
This is pretty cool. People who develop for WordPress often virtualize hosts on their Mac. Automattic made a purpose-made tool just for WordPress instances. https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/developer-tools/studio/
Studio

Studio by WordPress.com is a free desktop app that helps developers streamline their local WordPress development workflows. With Studio, you’ll be able to easily build and maintain local WordPress …

WordPress.com Developer Resources

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

I feel like 99% of #facebook page spamming could be eliminated by just filtering for messages containing “Last Warning”. That's assuming fb actually cared about scammers, which does not seem to be the case.