Tim Oliver

@timoliver
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Gamer. Developer. Geek. iOS SWE in Tokyo, maker of iComics for iOS. Perth Aussie living in Japan. 日本語もオッケー!✌️
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Definitely hearing a lot from my IG Labs teammates that they miss stacked diffs and this GitHub concept of a “pull request” is weird. 😆

Some of them were at Meta their whole careers so far, so GitHub is brand new to them.

I definitely agree. Tempted to give Graphite another try. 😆

I will neither confirm nor deny the only reason I bought a new subwoofer is so I would have somewhere to put all of my RevenueCat plushies. 🙃

A little library I've been playing with since 2016. I was curious how an always visible scroll bar would look and behave on iOS.

It took a lot of back-and-forthing, but I was able to use Claude to generate the logic needed to allow flicking the scroll bar for it to play a decelerating animation.

https://github.com/TimOliver/TOScrollBar

@tonyarnold Aha. I might have to admit the first thing I tried was opening up my app in Reveal. 😆

Hmm okay. I’ll keep poking then. Thanks Tony!

Hmmm. Is there an easy way to identify SwiftUI views on-screen at runtime?

I've gotten way too used to using tools like FLEX to be able to introspect views and view controllers onscreen to navigate the codebase haha.

I'm debating if using accessibilityIdentifier in debug builds would work for this.

@simonbs Oh nice! Good to know! Yeah I tried to build directly on CloudKit a while ago and gave up when I saw the shopping list of reasons it gives for when a sync operation fails.

I’ll give CKSyncEngine a proper try too then!

@simonbs how has your experience with CloudKit been so far? I was taking a look at CKSyncEngine today, but I’m still on the fence about making a production app with it.

@paul I asked my boss a few years back if I could expense a Mac Pro, and he said yes, but only if I expensed the wheels as well and rode the Mac Pro to work everyday.

With a discount like that, it would have been a no brainer. 😆

@tvaziri The baby looked at you!? I think we need Superintendent Chalmers.