A _DavidSmith Story Half-Hour on the surprising journey to build a simple photo complication for Apple Watch. How hard could it be?
Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.
Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.
Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.
Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.
The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.
How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.