Ruan Viljoen

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BroadReach Group CTO. Building a world where access to good health enables people to flourish. Husband, dad, geek. Proudly Capetonian.
Ruan ViljoenJan 21, 2023
Marco ArmentJan 19, 2023

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]

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Ruan ViljoenJan 21, 2023
David SmithJan 20, 2023

I've said it before, but wow is SwiftUI good. I just finished migrating a massive, super complicated UIKit view hierarchy. I had estimated that the rebuild would take around 2 weeks to finish...it took 1.5 days.

🤯

And the best part is that the result has way better support for Dynamic Type and VoiceOver...and is like 20% of the lines of code.

Ruan ViljoenJan 21, 2023
Kelly GuimontJan 20, 2023
On the off chance you still have Tweetbot kicking around on your phone, if you cancel the login attempt you can still go to Settings and scroll down to Tip Tweetbot and it will work. Please enjoy this completely random bit of information shared for NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
Ruan ViljoenJan 18, 2023
Show threadBenRiceMJan 18, 2023
For the record, I still love our OG HomePod pair as TV speakers, but it was weird to release an update that didn’t solve it’s biggest issue, lack of audio in
Ruan ViljoenJan 17, 2023
Lady Laura Jan 16, 2023

I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

Ruan ViljoenJan 4, 2023
One of the main reasons big companies get less efficient and more bloated over time.
Ruan ViljoenDec 23, 2022
Show threadMarco ArmentDec 23, 2022

@paul Option 4:
Ship what you have! Add features later.

It’s already both fantastic and desperately needed in the ecosystem.

Stick a $20/year IAP sub on it and ship it.

Ruan ViljoenDec 20, 2022
Rob NapierDec 19, 2022

If you need a break from the 🍿 events you're probably following and are probably bad for your mental health anyway, may I recommend yet another excellent video from @sebastianlague on 7-segment displays?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDQpqhY2MA

I built all of this stuff in college, and I feel I know (knew?) it pretty well, and still, Sebastian makes it make so much more sense and its so satisfying to see it all come together.

Visualizing Data with 7-Segment Displays

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