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I am about to ship Campaign Codex (https://campaigncodex.app/)!

It is currently in review with Apple and will be coming to the iPad and iPhone. This is an iPad-first dungeons & dragons app focused on empowering dungeon master's as they manage their campaign. inspired by my first DM in my first campaign with friends.

its been fun to hack on :)

TestFlight here for anyone curious! https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ

love seeing scala being used. very unique! would be curious why scala vs other languages out there

still chugging on Whenish https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749!

outside of that I started to fiddle around with a cross section of observability and analytics with SDKs...building a little tool to give SDK publishers better insights.

still chugging away at Whenish. update coming soon with GCal integration: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749

started to explore a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons DM app. i called it Campaign Codex. https://campaigncodex.app/

been doing a lot of agent assisted iOS dev...it has been...fun!!

I think its fine to switch stacks after being in one for two decades. It seems they got into React in a sweet spot where perhaps breaking changes have slowed down...perspective is everything! I bet they would have said something else if they got into React several years ago ;)

I am working on a query cost analyzer that looks at query performance and does maths against your infrastructure cost to understand what is your dollar cost per query. The idea is that teams (when tables are tagged appropriately) will be notified with their most costly queries and hopefully makes that actionable for teams to clean up some queries.

I am unsure if there is a need for a tool like this in the market but I am becoming more and more curious around databases so this felt like a lower barrier for my product-minded engineer skills to get into.

SWE is a demanding job in general so just be prepared to actually "work". as others have said look at large companies where tech is not the selling point. insurance, banks, aviation, large fortune 500 companies.

i've noticed that it is sometimes less about the type of company and more about the immediate manager and their mindset. a competent manager can set expectations with external stakeholders while not overloading their engineers. a good middle manager who can play politics with multiple stakeholders and becomes "liked" really leads to a chill job if they have the correct expectations of their career as well.

merry christmas everyone! HN has been the first site i open up every morning with a cup of tea for the past 10 years or so. Cheers to a great community of builders & thinkers.

while not exactly $500/month, my side project Whenish (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749) makes me some beer money.

I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.

recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!

hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.

im build an offline-first iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons campaign app called Campaign Codex. i got inspired by watching Critical Role and saw a bunch of them using iPads during their sessions.

thought it would be cool to build something like this. im still building but feel free to download it via testflight and give some feedback: https://testflight.apple.com/join/kM4udJSZ

I was working on a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons app focused on the Dungeon Master called Campaign Codex but I got a little bored with building CRUD apps.

Decided to pivot and start learning about databases and their internals more. Currently pulling down Clickhouse and reading some code along with the reading the book Database Internals by Alex Petrov.

So I'm technically not "working on" an app...I am working on myself to branch out and attempt to specialize a bit more as I progress in my career.

Any advice/papers/books to read is very welcomed!

i think this is because of Clojure's mentality on backwards compatibility and not the JVM specifically. please someone correct me if im wrong tho!

Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Java, Spring Boot, Elixir, Technical Leadership

Résumé/CV: https://www.commongroundtech.com/

Email: tyler@commongroundtech.com

hey all! i am looking for freelancing work in the Apple ecosystem space (Mac/iOS). I am looking to take on 5-8 hours a week.

available for: ios development, interesting web dev projects

hi im tyler! i have indie experience building Whenish, a productivity scheduling app for Messages (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749). i have scaled starts ups from seed to series c rounds. i am looking to consult on a weekly basis primarily building in the ios space but am open to start ups who need technical guidance and need a fractional cto like role.

really cool to see a company using Common Lisp!

But the best programming language is like the best wine. Different people like different things, and that's OK. Drink whatever is the best fit for your palate, and code in whatever is the best fit for your brain.

never has anything rang truer

this is awesome. is this on github? i would love to use it.

this app never reads any messages. the iMessage framework is very strict around privacy...so much so that you are unable to get user information of. This is why you will see Participate 1, 2, 3 instead of the person's name. There is no way to get this information of who the sender is! Kudos to apple for this.

The only message that is written to the chat is when you hit submit. There is no external service as all information is stored as metadata on the message itself. I did not want to have an external server (which has its own challenges, see in another message around collisions).

Your entire group can see the message but in order to interact with the poll they will need to download the app. They will be redirected to the app store if they do not have the app after clicking.

there is no external server! all meeting information is stored as metadata on the message.

this leads to some issues with potential collisions like if two people click the Whenish message at the same time and submit their message, there is no way to merge both that data. while this is an issue, i wanted to err on the side of privacy as much as possible and not rely on a server at all.

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alas this is focused on iOS and i do not have plans to port to Android for the moment :(

heyo! so it will show the Whenish thumbnail in the chat when it is sent. when the user without Whenish clicks on it they will be routed to the app store to download Whenish.

im toying with the idea of maybe releasing more features in a premium upsell (one time $0.99 purchase or something like that). still ironing that out.

i release ios apps under an LLC in hopes that one day an app will make money and i would rather that be associated with an LLC.

good question on past dates! i will fix that :)

should be available in 24 hours...

if anyone knows about this (i remember i saw a warning by Apple) please let me know!

let me take a look! iirc there was some compliance related documents Apple may have needed that freaked me out a bit? ill dig into it. apologies for this!

i am building a little iMessage app called Whenish.

this was spurred from group texts with friends planning a vacation or outing. we would just throw a bunch of dates that would get lost in the mix and people would forget who was open on what dates. Whenish just allows user to select dates they are free and then it will show what is the best date that works for everyone.

i have a testflight right now and if anyone wants to give it a go please do! i would love feedback :)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/4HaADNMF

ps: i am not a designer and app icons are hard

ive been using Go + HTMX + Go Templates. So far ive like the experience a lot. i mostly chose this stack to learn Go better coming from a web dev background.

How do you get into advisory work? Do you need to obtain a certain title before companies want you as an advisor?

Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi being slow and I just want to build something around an API.

I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux

Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi being slow and I just want to build something around an API.

I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux

You mention that Clojure doesn't help but I would assume that knowing Clojure puts a leg up due to the buzz I see about Clojure on this site all the time. Do you think sinking years into Clojure was a net negative for you?

Note: I really like Clojure and looking to invest time in it but I am scared it will not make me attractive to employers.