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.

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take that shit down. A landmark University of Delaware study (Frick and Tallamy, 1996) counted nearly 14,000 insects killed by residential bug zappers over a single summer. Mosquitoes were 31 of them. A mere 0.22%. The other 99.78% were moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and the night-shift pollinators your yard depends on. Mosquitoes don't navigate by light. They find you by your carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is invisible to them and lethal to almost everything else. Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against bug zappers because they may increase mosquito populations by killing the predators that eat them. What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside. Bug zappers are 1970s technology built on a 1970s misunderstanding of mosquitoes. It's time to take it down.

@asallen @allenylau @notboring So cute

We made !Boring stickers! Collection of 30 hand-drawn !Boring app achievements printed in stunning metallic foil. Class up your phone, airpods case, laptop, water bottle. Illustrations by Allen Lau @allenylau

@asallen @notboring Yes yes yessss

Whoa! (Not Boring) Camera is up for an Apple Design Award. Massive thanks to all of you who support our wild ideas and afford us the room to play and make beautiful, useful things 🙏

When I was at Apple, I loved working on micro interactions that you see all over the OS. Now that I’m not an apple I still like to solve for these little problems that really annoyed me. In this case, I designed a backspace button with a speed controller, so by just pressing it you can delete by letter and then immediately by word as you stretch it, without having to wait (like it usually does on the OS) and then if you stretch a little more, you can speed delete through words… I’m also working on another one where you can repair the words if you over-deleted it by accident 😜 (it also has haptic feedback, which makes it really fun)

@kamibox_ph Wow

The next phone number has been found! 🕵🏼‍♂️ Congrats for being smart and patient 👀

@klemensstrasser @tryswiftconf Not this time 🥲

@warpling @tryswiftconf Not going to WWDC?!

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@klemensstrasser @tryswiftconf The FOMO begins 😭

@tryswiftconf Cc @warpling

This is art

@jwegener This is geniuuuss

My wife and I were in the SAME place at the SAME time, 4 years before we ever met🤯🤯🤯 I built an app that scans your photo library to reveal every time you crossed paths with someone -- before you ever met! Reply "beta" if you'd like to try it!

Pinching to zoom on text while keeping your reading position.

@SamuelBeek @schematikio We need a link! :)

If you wanna get started in hardware - just get this kit (and @schematikio)

I'd like to take this moment to apologize to anyone whom I might have said "Icon Composer isn't that bad" to

@SamuelBeek It took me four times to type it right 😆

friends, "schematik.io" was the only domain that I liked that was available at the time -- you think I should change the name or keep?

@helm_app @klemensstrasser Thhhe beessst

Helm 2.2 is here, and it's our biggest update yet! 🛒 Full in-app purchase and subscription management, right inside Helm. 💰 Smart pricing tools: PPP, percentage adjustments, and automatic translations across territories. 📋 Reuse metadata from your other products with just a tap, without starting from scratch. And there's a whole lot more! We've put so much work into this and can't wait to hear what you think. Keep the feedback coming! 🔗 Links in the first comment.

The Netherlands is one of the most sci-fi places on earth The Dutch deserve a new word: hydropunk Over centuries, they have created & maintained one of the most advanced water management systems on the planet

@stalmico @devonzuegel They are

@devonzuegel the infrastructure apis must be incredible there

@thiago_peres Would love to try it!

@warpling I’m making one! only target language, quick actions. Want the TestFlight?

I am convinced that 99% of people who make translation apps have never needed to use one daily before. 🤏 This close to making my own…

Am I stupid?

being a fish sucks because you have your usual gallery of underwater predators and then also you have to worry about a demon from another realm appearing to kill you too

@sureshsharmaxyz @sekachov Yeah I remember! Just insane you can't teach it your main language pair to at least default to… like yes I translated a French website yesterday, doesn't mean I want to do that all the time when I live in the NL and my keyboards are set to EN/NL… come on

@warpling Omg yes. I usually only switch between Dutch German and English, but the number of taps it takes to get to the combination I want is to damn high. While it’s not exactly a translation app, the oppie app by @sekachov did the source language guessing really well!