Damian Lettie

@lettie
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31 Following
43 Posts
Developer of software. Learner of Japanese. Fretter of small things.
Canberra, Australia. He / him.
Damian LettieJun 10
Marcos TanakaJun 9

If you find a bug in an app you use, send it to support via email rather than leaving a one-star review.

Over here, I read every message and do my best to help. App reviews are great for feedback, but they're a terrible place to troubleshoot issues...

Damian LettieMay 24
Mike ElganMay 24

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

Damian LettieJan 11
Norbert HegerJan 11

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

Damian LettieAug 19, 2025
Huw RowlandsAug 19, 2025

Hey everyone,

The time’s come for me to search for a new role.

I’m a Lead/Staff iOS developer, with something over 10 years experience. I’m based in Canberra, but I’m very happy to be remote, too. Up for other things as well!

Let me know if I can send you my CV!

Huw

#getfedihired

Damian LettieAug 5, 2025
Collin DonnellAug 4, 2025

Senior Swift developer (former Apple) with immediate freelance availability. #iOS #macOS #SwiftDev

http://collin.blog/2025/08/04/freelance-availability-for-ios-macos-development/

Freelance Availability for iOS/macOS Development

Looking at my schedule, I’m going to have at least a couple months of availability for freelance iOS/macOS/Ruby work starting immediately. I’m a former Apple engineer (2018-2021); experienced with …

Collin Donnell
Damian LettieAug 2, 2025

Look at @manton over there, quietly making the world a better place, again.

https://www.manton.org/2025/08/01/microblog-now-free-for-teachers.html

Manton Reece - Micro.blog now free for teachers and nurses

Damian LettieMay 28, 2025
Chris LindsayMay 28, 2025

✨ New app launch! ✨
Transcrybe is here — subtitle anything on your Mac in real time.

🎧 Watch videos in any language
🗣 Follow foreign language meetings
🎤 Caption your own voice

It used to be called Subtitle Me. Now it’s all grown up! 🍾

Blog Post: https://blog.nihongo-app.com/transcrybe-is-here

Transcrybe is Here

I’m excited to finally share that my new(ish) Mac app, Transcrybe, is now live! If you’ve been following my work, you might remember a little menu bar app I released last year called Subtitle Me. It started as a tiny tool to subtitle live speech using Apple’

Nihongo Blog
Damian LettieJan 14, 2025
Shihab MehboobJan 14, 2025
New year, new goals. Transitioning my career into something different. If you’re interested in purchasing my entire suite of apps off me, please reach out via DMs. I’m always open to chat and would love to give them to someone who’ll look after them.
Damian LettieOct 6, 2024
Christian SeligOct 5, 2024
Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data https://christianselig.com/2024/10/beware-userdefaults/
Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data

Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of pain in both support emails and actually tracking it down, so I want to make others aware of it so they don’t similarly burned. Brief intro For the uninitiated, UserDefaults (née NSUserDefaults) is the de facto iOS standard for persisting non-sensitive, non-massive data to “disk” (AKA offline). In other words, are you storing some user preferences, maybe your user’s favorite ice cream flavors? UserDefaults is great, and used extensively from virtually every iOS app to Apple sample code. Large amount of data, or sensitive data? Look elsewhere! This is as opposed to just storing it in memory where if the user restarts the app all the data is wiped out.

Damian LettieSep 4, 2024
Bitwarden bucking the cross-platform trend.