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Indie Developer

My first app, Chronicling, has been out for a little over a year. After adding significant new features with iOS 17 and 18, I’ve been taking the time to work on improving the basics, including onboarding and performance.

Speaking

I recently had the opportunity to speak at iOSDevUK in Aberystwyth. It was an excellent conference in a beautiful location and I’d love to go back in future. Hopefully I’ll be speaking at another event soon, so I’m keeping the slides fresh…

Indie Web

I’m enjoying the resurgence of personal websites and cool services like omg.lol. I fondly remember the days of StumbleUpon and I’m enjoying dipping my toes in and experimenting with 11ty. A mention in this excellent article by Robb Knight is likely the closest I will ever get to the HackerNews front page! (N.B. I am by no means a web developer, this is all new and fun for me).

Reading

I was an avid reader as a teenager, but like many people struggled to keep up the pace through university. Many years later I’m enjoying prioritising reading again. I recently read The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox, a history of the decipherment of Linear B. I loved the balance of technical detail on how it is even possible to decipher an unknown language written in an unknown script with the biographical details of the key figures. Alice Kober’s analogue cigarette box “database” was a particular highlight.

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Last Updated: 26th October 2024