Indie dev founder of Lightbeam Apps, video performance apps for mobile 🌟
Co-host of Waiting for Review with Daniel Jilg 🎙️
Lately:
- Available for freelance/contract work from June 🤙
- Making my own GUI for Swift (hopefully going cross platform)
- Working on a new app for video performance
| Lightbeam Apps | https://lightbeamapps.com |
| GoVJ | https://govjapp.com |
| Waiting For Review | https://www.waitingforreview.com |
| BlueSky | https://bsky.app/profile/lightbeaminsight.bsky.social |
I guess I do care what changes with AVFoundation, that affects my apps pretty directly.
Anything on cross-platform Swift will be interesting.
Any further integration of LLM based tools will be interesting to me, if it links up with running things on-device. I want this side of LLMs to move to local machines, and for the models to get more specific to the task at hand so they're more useful.
I've used Claude Code to drag the GUI dev along, and, it's been mostly more useful than not. I've very mixed feelings about this. I've cancelled my CC subscription, and I'm about to move to other tools and code directly myself a lot more.
But... Apple stuff. Do I care about SwiftUI updates? Not really. I'm interested in keeping up, as I'm likely to be working in a day job eventually (currently unemployed after being laid off), where that knowledge will still be necessary or useful.
After dabbling with QT (C++), Kotlin Multiplatform, and then some immediate mode GUI things... I found really enjoy working in Swift still.
So I decided to make a cross-platform GUI in Swift, on top of Skia for my apps.
I've yet to ship an app leveraging it, but hopefully in the next few months. The main app won't be bringing it in wholesale, although pieces of it may use it.
I guess, I want to check in and see how enthused I am or not about any of the updates they're doing. My relationship with Apple has been a bit hot and cold over the last year.
Tried to go to Linux, but I'm too tied to Xcode etc for making iOS apps. And I like making my VJ app in particular, and apps of that nature. So I was always back to using my Mac anyway.
It's that time of year, when Apple does the informercial - er Keynote.
For some reason, I'm going to attempt the 5AM NZ time start and watch it live again this year.
I'll tag my posts with #WWDC for those who want to filter it out. If I post at all that is.w
This wasn't just a shameless ploy to get people to check mine and @daniel's podcast out!
Although, now I think about it..
Random one: if you have a moment, can you visit https://waitingforreview.com (press this link, without the www on it) and tell me if it redirects to www. and loads for you?
I’ve been having some DNS issues and want to check if things are working for most people now!
* Appears to be working for a few peeps, so feel free to ignore 😅
A fortnightly show between two iOS indie developers, David Gary Wood and Daniel Jilg
I love that Lego did a rebooted M:Tron minifig in a recent series… had to nab this guy for my collection.
I wish they’d make some proper sets again for them. They probably can’t do the 90’s tiny Lego magnets for safety reasons. Those magnets were awesome though 😀
I'm oh so over the hype. Yes, these tools can be useful at times. No, they are not the answer to everything.
It's been good to learn more about them, and see where the wheels really fall off. If all of the logical arguments didn't win me over, the reality of trying to do big projects with them vs. grinding through and starting to loathe the process has proven it out for me.