Phillip Caudell @phill@mastodon.notsobig.co

Hello!

I still need to post an introduction, so here it goes.

I'm Phill, one of those designer/developer types. I quit my VC job a couple of years back to bootstrap my own business, The Not So Big Company (@updates).

I'm working on a fast and modern new mail client called Big Mail. The whole thing is written in Swift and SwiftUI, which has been an experience. 🤓

Launching very soon. In the meantime, enjoy some screenshots!

Evri saying “We’ve got your parcel” feels more like a threat than anything else

(I like Gruber and I understand his sentiment but the way I cackled at that punchline 😂)

*highlights a thing that is ✨literally✨ happening now on the App Store*

Gruber: A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME WITHOUT THE APP STORE

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/12/dealmachine-wtf

Man I would save so much time if I just did things right the first time.

And for the record, I think some devs SHOULD be treated differently.

It makes sense for Apple to help Spotify have the best app possible because guess what: IT HELPS TO SELL IPHONES.

No one is buying a phone they can’t run apps on. Apple’s position of “be grateful” is just detached from reality at this point. Totally bizarre.

Of course it’s kinda funny that even within a single press release they can’t make a coherent argument.

“Everyone is equal! Except for some select developers. And everyone loves the App Store! Except when we got so much ‘feedback’ we had to change it.”

😂

Guys I can’t see the “FedEx me an Apple Engineer” option in App Store Connect??

“developers compete on a level playing field”

“We’ve even flown our engineers to Stockholm to help”

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify-and-europes-thriving-digital-music-market/

We've reached the pedantic development stage lads

Found this little baby in our garden. No microchip. No response to posters I put up. Shelter said they are full.

I guess I have a kitty now…?

Finally got around to watching The Curse finale…

🥇 NEW FEAR UNLOCKED

What have I missed? Did they ever launch that headset?

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

My job?

I restart Xcode and Clean Builder Folder for a living.

#SwiftUI: Stop using AppStorage directly. It’s prone to typos, value mismatches and more.

Instead give yourself strongly typed keys and associated defaults, à la EnvironmentValues.

I’ve published my implementation as a package, but you can just as easily wrap AppStorage yourself with a few dozen lines.

https://github.com/notsobigcompany/BigUIUserPreferences

The whole thing made me paranoid; how could I have been compromised in such a catastrophic way?

Turns out (perhaps unsurprisingly) the weakest link in the chain was human. A fake ID was used inside a branch to gain access to my accounts. Additional checks that were supposed to be carried out, weren’t.

The bank issued the fraudsters with a new card and PIN number. And that was it. They had everything they needed.

This time last year I had a life-changing amount of money stolen.

There was no obvious scam. I hadn’t sent any payments. It was just gone.

The police weren’t helpful and the bank did nothing but gaslight me the entire time.

Today the Financial Ombudsman found the bank at fault and have ordered everything to be paid back + compensation.

I cannot begin to express the relief I’m feeling after such an awful year.

Lots of happy crying this morning 🥲

Had a few people ask how you might go from a scrolling grid to a PageView, à la Photos app.

Using matchedGeometry will get you most of the way there, then it’s just a few little extras to keep both views in sync.

I’ve added some new sample code in the project to show how:

https://github.com/notsobigcompany/BigUIPaging/blob/master/Sources/BigUIPaging/Examples/ExampleGridToPageView.swift