Ryan McLeod

As a kid, whenever we went to the Apple Store I'd run to the back to play the demo games on the iMacs. Now, in an absolutely crazy, full-circle moment, my own game @BlackboxPuzzles is one of those games on thousands of iPads in hundreds of Apple Stores around the world.

Art of Flora is AVAILABLE NOW! 🌸 🌱 A cosy puzzle game based on historical plant art 🫶 20 % are donated to nature conservation 🦾 Big focus on accessibility 🧑‍🎨 Artist gallery 🎻 Beautiful sounds 🧒Kids mode Exclusive on the @AppStore Link below! ⬇️

@asallen Amazing! (and genius use of that illusion for the barcode )

Introducing the Not Boring Vibes (Official Soundtrack)! 14 vibey tracks composed by Thomas Williams from his work on the Not Boring apps collection. Featuring new original artwork on a gatefold jacket with 12" clear vinyl + lossless audio download.

The egg I’m poaching:

@ow Damn, I have been wanting to build just the manual part of this for the home! Never thought of the receipt or photo angle!

it’s actually nuts how good AI has gotten at writing code i always lose receipts, so I wanted a tool to track them + manuals, especially for large purchases started playing… 36 hours later I have a solid backend and a decent native iOS app(!!) already. it extracts info from receipts with an LLM, grabs the PDF of the manual + a nice product photo from the internet and takes care of it all. ✨ just crazy how fast you can just make things real end-to-end now.

I've long preferred Claude Code over Codex or Gemini, because it seemed much more reliable, but couldn't explain why : now Bullshit Bench by @petergostev provides compelling numbers. It measures bullshit as "when given false premises disguised in jargon, will the model go with the flow (=bullshit) or push back (=truthful)" And Claude is leagues ahead ! Also, this objective of truthfulness is probably at odds with the Chatbot Arena emergent objective of "pleasant chat experience" ; but a model optimizing for the former will be more useful.

@nikitabier It’s most often been 4 days for me recently Feels just like as you describe

iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

@juliapintar trackr plz

Introducing Trackr 2.0. The infrastructure behind 1B+ views and 10M+ downloads for apps like Quizlet, Substack, and Cash App Comment "TRACKR" and I'll send you the exact playbook we use to run these campaigns.

@DallenFrutchey It's a fairly beautiful thing to behold when solved!

@warpling Any hints on solving the yellow sun puzzle in Blackbox for Vision? I’ve been trying for months 🥲

Up late burning the midnight tokens

@paularambles Thank you for writing this up!

We have the technology to do so much more with software…

@mrdavenport Very nice!!

spent my night nerding out over this transition 🥹

I'm not sure anything has ever made me as productive as little progress bar

An anti-war ad from a decade ago is going viral. Because the same wars keep happening-for the same interests, at the same cost, with the same lies

@nicol3a So lovely

While developing this, I had already added some velocity to the duck. Then I added a SpriteKit collision to represent the keyboard’s height and accidentally discovered that the duck gets thrown away when the keyboard is resized with the invite code. Happy accident. 🤩

this is brilliant

@helm_app We love Helm!!

🌟It's time for a new milestone! Over 14K developers have used Helm to ship an app to the App Store! Thank you so much for the support! Get ready for In-App Purchases, Subscriptions, Availability (all with PPP indexes) VERY soon. The first feedback on the closed beta has been great, and we will add more of you in the next week.

wifi signals detecting your movement through walls without cameras keystroke cadence identifying you faster than a fingerprint your phone's accelerometer logging your gait so precisely it knows which leg you favor ultrasonic beacons in retail stores pairing your devices to your physical location license plate readers logging 99% of urban driving routes within 24 hours behavioral biometrics scoring how you hold your phone to decide if you're you and these are just the ones with published white papers