John Pollard

@yeltzland
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Software developer and world-class armchair sports fan. Developer of some iOS apps you've never heard of. Also make music as Black Country Music | He/him
Websitehttps://bravelocation.com
Black Country Musichttps://blackcountrymusicband.co.uk
GitHubhttps://github.com/bravelocation
Sideboard on the App Storehttps://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sideboard/id6499199954
Happy Carabao Cup winning day to all those who celebrate 🌑⚪️
Shots from our morning walk on a crisp Spring morning along the river in Hexham, followed by a frustrating evening watching Newcastle lose in the FA Cup to Man City
Went to Whitley Bay yesterday to checkout the sand stripped beach. Looks more like Brighton beach now ☹️

I decided to add daily summaries in my Sideboard app using Apple Intelligence, but it didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped

https://bravelocation.com/Apple-Intelligence-Daily-Summaries-In-Sideboard

Apple Intelligence Daily Summaries In Sideboard

Sounded like a good idea, but turned out less useful than I hoped

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Man (not me!) braving the wild sea at Cullercoats and other blustery day scenes #tynemouth #cullercoatsbeach #newcastle #seaswimming

https://bravelocation.com/social/2025-12-30-the-wild-sea

The Wild Sea (TikTok)

Man braving the wild sea at Cullercoats and other blustery day scenes #tynemouth #cullercoatsbeach #newcastle #seaswimming

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Current status: Sitting in an iced-over car testing out if I've finally got the Android Auto integration working in my Yeltzland app 🥶🚙👍🏻

Very excited that I've added CarPlay support to my Yeltzland iOS app

https://bravelocation.com/Adding-CarPlay-Support-To-Yeltzland

I've recently released a new tvOS app (and companion iOS app) to the App Store called On The Shelf

I got sick of not being able to track my “not started” Netflix and YouTube videos using the Top Shelf

So I built a simple tvOS app which lets you manage a separate list of shows in a CloudKit backed database, and then wrote a companion iOS app (with a nice share extension) which makes it easy to share links from the iOS Netflix and YouTube apps

More details at https://bravelocation.com/ontheshelf

On The Shelf

A tvOS (and companion iOS app) for managing your watchlist on your Top Shelf - for those services that don’t play nicely! Putting the Apple TV app’s watchlist on the Top Shelf is a great way to ...

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Gemini 3 really is astoundingly good at making images from a simple prompt, even with text requirements

I’m very happy with the new logo I made for my very old Yeltzland site, which hasn’t been updated for many, many years

https://www.yeltzland.net

Yeltzland - a dormant Halesowen Town website

Not too much different from my Spotify Unwrapped this year

That's a lot of listening though (I really can't code any more without background music on), and I think my "listening age" of 20 is a slight under-estimation of my real age 👴 🎵