James Thomson

@jamesthomson
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Indie iOS / Mac developer from Glasgow, Scotland. Maker of the PCalc scientific calculator, and a cool dice app. Occasional writer, conference speaker, D&D player, and podcast pundit.
My Appshttps://pcalc.com
My Tech Podcastshttp://relay.fm/people/jamesthomson
My Pop Culture Podcastshttps://www.theincomparable.com/person/james-thomson
My Squirrelshttps://www.instagram.com/stresspanda/
Watching the Artemis launch on the same day as Project Hail Mary has left me unreasonably hopeful they meet some rocks.

I'm not the only person to have thoughts about Apple's 50th anniversary today, but these are mine:

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/apple-at-50-gonna-be-gonna-be-golden/

The Lil Finder 3D model is based on an existing mesh by @BasicAppleGuy and @ismh86, and hand painted by me.

A timely update to my #TTRPG dice rolling app, Dice by PCalc, is out now!

This release adds a bunch of new dice themes, including one that's a 50th Anniversary tribute to Apple, and to my time there on the Finder team. There's also a blue velvet dice tray, and a variety of other new features and bug fixes.

iOS:
https://pcalc.com/store/dice

Mac:
https://pcalc.com/store/dicemac

Tomorrow…

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

 It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

Me too, Max, me too 🦋
Apple Music just added a thing in iOS 26.4 where they look at your favourite musicians and tell you about concerts nearby, and it has cost me £80 already.
What could go wrong?
Remind me in 6 years, 2 months, and 23 days, to post that the date of the first episode of Doctor Who being broadcast is closer to the date of the original publication of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, than it is to the present day.