A little animation I made to make this list feel nicer. There's a subtle shrinking/growing of the checkmarks that I like looking at. Keeping selected items at the top is also convenient for long lists.

#animation #swiftui

UPDATE: It's be 72hrs since launch and I'm happy to say it's been successful! No migration issues, no crashes. All the dashboards are quiet. So with that peace of mind, let me show you around the app.

#launch #ios #iosdev

Launch day nerves are different when...
• The new version is a full, ground-up rewrite
• You’re migrating existing users
• You wrote all 14,000 lines of code yourself
and scariest of all…
• You're a first-time programmer 😬

I’ll share the link later if all goes well 🙂
Here we go!!!

#ios #iosdev

Making the final preparations for launching a full rebuild of my app. This kind of "changing the engines in flight" release has a special kind of nervousness. Especially on the App Store where there's no rollback functionality.

#iOS #iosdev

Here's the design I came up with. It turned out to be a bit of a rabbit hole, but I learned a lot, and it’s my first custom animation from basic system shapes.

#animation #ios #iosdev #programming

It'll be nearly 1yr and 1300 hours since starting to learn programming and building an app. The last two times I tried I never made it past 200 hours.

https://youtu.be/-3r2foPHyVE

#swift #learn #iOS

Somewhere recently, handwriting recognition took a turn. Yesterday I sat by the lake and wrote a blog post on my iPad, and turned it into text with just a photo in Gemini.

#google #gemini #ai #workflow

Supporting larger text sizes in apps often gets deprioritized in apps. The thinking is there aren't enough people to make it worth the effort. I'm not happy to say I've de-prioritized it myself many times in my product career.

But because Revere is my own project though, I get to prioritize what I want. And because as people get older they become more interested in fostering their relationships, Revere skews towards people who don't have eagle eyes so a feature like this will be appreciated.