KeepFresh v1.1 (my food waste tracking app) just dropped!
Edit, move and add additional food items in a flash. Blazing fast search from 3mil+ grocery products that's growing everyday. Find all your supermarket favourites - guaranteed. Give it a try!
apps.apple.com/app/keepfres...
Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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11 months later, with some huge gaps in the middle, I’m really delighted that the app is finally available for download, for free, from the App Store! apps.apple.com/gb/app/keepf...
Getting ready to launch my first app to the App Store since iOS 13.
Is Combine dead? Doesn't look like Apple have given it any love since 2019
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Is there a specific reason @vite.dev doesn’t offer a runtime for a Node.js server?
Feels like there’s so much opportunity to improve server build tooling. Surely lots of this must exist already from @vitest.dev and vite handling SSR?
Being forced to log in to a website so you can unsubscribe from their mailing list (which you never signed up for in the first place) should be illegal
Want an easy way to stay up to date with new releases of libraries, frameworks and tools you use #buildinpublic?
Easiest way I've found:
Go to the relevant Github repo, click on Watch -> Custom -> Releases, and you'll get notified by email every time a new release is made 👌
iOS upsell "practice alarms" to get back into your routine after the holiday
Fireworks in your terminal
Want fireworks in your terminal? ❤️ Try `npx firew0rks`
Source: github.com/addyosmani/f...
Lynn’s portfolio refreshes are legendary. Love seeing the clever ways she manages to make things responsive.
This year didn’t disappoint. ✨
Google Calendar see how meetings you already have booked for 2025
Screenshot of colour set for an iOS application
Say you're working on a UI design from Figma that's using hex codes for colours:
If you stumble across a new colour to add to the UI e.g. #EAF2FC, does a tool exist to automatically determine the relative value of the new colour to your existing colour set? Ideally would return blue-100 here
"Hey Siri, define recovery winter arc" 📈
*Disclaimer, my work required me to use a different Github account so these are all purely open source commits.
Feels great to be getting back to side projects and super motivated to make 2025 the year they go live.
Happy New Year everyone 🎉
That animation should be award winning 😍
The Next team are ridiculously good at this. We need more people in the react-router/Remix ecosystem to follow suit
This portfolio site by Mory Yim is extraordinarily well engineered and fits the futuristic minimalism vibe perfectly.
The CSS transitions 😮💨 morelenyim.com
Ignoring all the controversy with Kanye for a moment, the UX of yeezy.com is extremely good.
I'm a huge fan of futuristic minimalism as a design philosophy (anything Black Mirror inspired floats my boat).
Cooking up something of my own for my portfolio website soon ⏳
The struggle is real.
Jumping onboard the Ghostty hype but I'm loving it so far 👻
⚡️It's super fast, works with existing zsh configurations, great built in themes too. It's my go to Terminal now.
Seriously tempted to learn Zig following Ghostty's and Bun's track record for speed
Screenshot of Add Item view in KeepFresh iOS app
Inching closer to getting KeepFresh live (the app I'm building for fighting food waste).
Keeping to a strict MVP is a challenge but motivated to share a TestFlight link in early January.
Back to designing the last screens and then hooking up the API 🚀
github.com/barclayd/kee...
Awesome Evan!
Relieved to be free of AoC duties now it's Christmas Day but really enjoyed challenging myself and completing the challenge for the first time this year (3rd attempt - 2018 day 7, 2022, day 13).
DFS, BFS and Dijkstra'salgorithm are firmly ingrained in my mind 😅 github.com/barclayd/adv...
I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
Zillow see how old you’ll be when you pay off a home
This is such an amazing and inspiring read Serena! The neurological/cognitive connection between those two hobbies is fascinating too. Makes so much sense, the more I think about it
“The best designed software is frictionless to change”
👆I’ve come up with my first engineering principle after nearly 6 years of professional software engineering at some of the biggest companies in the UK
Blog post incoming 👀
I love Array.reduce, but I find myself writing less of them as the browser primitives get better.
Map + Object groupBy is one place you can now get rid of reduce for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfK...
ci.yml: github.com/barclayd/adv...
Think this solution can lend itself to a well architected, monolithic application or monorepo. Especially once you throw in dependency caching ⚡️
