We’re hiring an iOS Engineer to join our small, passionate team in creating apps that exceed even the highest industry standards!

📍 Remote (US-based)
⏰ Full time (4 day work week!)
🖥️ Experience with Swift, SwiftUI and TCA

Learn more & apply here:
https://lickability.com/careers/

My name is Brendan and I'm an indie Mac and iOS app developer. I write the app Tap Forms Database Pro. It's an awesome database construction app along the lines of Bento and FileMaker. Use it to keep track of anything you can imagine.

Please visit my home page to purchase a copy:

https://www.tapforms.com

And if you could support an indie developer and boost this post I'd be very grateful.

Thanks!

🌼 Hey Mastodon! 🌼

After four years at Oracle, I've decided to embark on a new adventure and am currently seeking new opportunities in the tech world. 🚀

I'm especially on the lookout for roles in Developer Relations/Advocacy or Senior Technical Writing/Docs Management. With two decades as an independent developer and extensive experience in developer relations, I’m passionate about connecting with the developer community and bridging the gap between users and products.

Here’s a bit more about what I bring to the table:

⚙️ Developer Relations/Advocate: I understand the developer mindset and have built strong relationships over the years.
✏️ Senior Technical Writer/Docs Manager: I create clear and insightful documentation, drawing from my extensive writing background, including blogging and working with high-profile publications.

In addition to my writing/advocacy experience, I’m well-versed in programming languages like Ruby, Objective-C, and JavaScript, and I also dabble in Swift and Python. My web development journey spans over 30 years, keeping my skills in HTML and CSS sharp.

If you have any leads, advice, or just want to connect, please drop me a message! I’d love to hear from you. Your support means the world to me as I embark on this new chapter. 🧑‍💻💖

Thanks for reading!

#OpenToWork #hireme

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

Say Hello to Acorn 8: https://shapeof.com/archives/2024/12/say_hello_to_acorn_8.html

Mask Subject, Remove Background, LUTs, Data Merge, Quick Processor, Canvas Ruler, new shape tools, Export Presets, SVG improvements, QOL things, in/cm support in all the UI, Shortcuts rewritten to use App Intents, JPEG-XL support, Live Text. And more.

It's on sale for a limited time, so grab it at a discount while you can: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Acorn is one of the few remaining independent full featured image editors left, built just for macOS.

I’m beyond excited to announce that JINX, the 3rd novel in my KESTREL technothrillers series is (finally) OUT NOW! https://mattgemmell.scot/books/jinx/

You can get it here:
- Amazon 🇺🇸 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSHSCZRB/)
- Amazon UK 🇬🇧 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CSHSCZRB/)
- Apple Books  https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6476163753)
- ePub e-book 📱 https://mattgemmell.gumroad.com/l/jinx-kestrel-epub)
- Autographed(!) e-book ✍️📱 https://mattgemmell.gumroad.com/l/jinx-kestrel-autographed-ebook)

Paperbacks will be available in a couple of weeks, either via Amazon or ordered from your local bookshop (ISBN 978-1916265257).

The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/

It was about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.

My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web than the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a fun talking point for a few months.

What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.

The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, while the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and I still feel the pride of managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.