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Dave Lightbeam

@lightbeaminsight.bsky.social

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By day I lead mobile developers in collaborative, high performing teams. By night I make my own apps and put them in the App Store! I podcast fortnightly on a show called Waiting For Review with my friend Daniel Jilg. Interested in all things tech📱

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · Jul 6

Introduction:

I’m a long time member of the iOS dev indie community. I work as an engineering manager with a bunch of amazing people in my teams.

I podcast, fortnightly with @breakth-esystem.bsky.social on @waitingforreview.bsky.social

I make apps that let people play with video govjapp.com 🔥

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 3d

Sitting outside in the NZ sun, thinking about a bunch of things looking at my garden and thinking about the last 2 summers in this house.

A change of direction this year. I've planted a few different things. I'll do things differently with what I've learnt.

A metaphor.

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Harshil @harshil.net · 4d

Some personal news: I’m wrapping up my time at @foodnoms.com! Working with @ryanashcraft.com has been a delight, and I’m really proud of everything I got to help ship

If you’re building something great for iPhone, I’d love to chat!

Foodnoms Apple Watch widgets and logging

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 4d

“* Phallus depicted at 10x scale”

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Rudrank Riyam @rudrankriyam.bsky.social · 4d

I am working extremely hard for Black Friday sale though

New chapters, much better work

academy.rudrank.com

Rudrank Riyam's Academy

academy.rudrank.com

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 4d

“I see the Kraft Dinner!”

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 5d

I found this to be a very compelling argument for why generated AI output (research, images, code, etc) can feel really great to you, while no one receiving that content cares very much.

ai products are boring

a short post

www.notebook.bdmcclay.com

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Kris Slazinski ☮️ @kslazinski.bsky.social · 6d

🥳 New review of my time-tracking app Moons.

As a UX designer and Fine Arts Academy graduate, I’m really happy to know that this user from the UK finds my app both “beautiful and practical” 🥰

Check out Moons on the App Store:
📲 apps.apple.com/app/id163217...

#buildinpublic

Screenshot of an App Store review of my app Moons. Text says: Beautiful and practical. Very easy to use and it looks good.

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Joannis Orlandos @joanniso.bsky.social · 6d

💪 8 PRs for Swift libraries to support Windows and counting. Let's make this happen!

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 9d

They can take a while. I mixed and and potting compost for these, and used rooting compound. I'm bringing them on in the greenhouse first, so hopefully some will take 🤞

Apparently, don't pot on/plant out until you see some new green growth so I'll be waiting for that!

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, I've got shaders running and displaying in a view in my immediate mode GUI for #Swift

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 10d

Cutting down lavender.. trimming and potting the cuttings

#Gardening #GardeningNZ

Lavender stems and flowers in a big red plant pot

Lavender flower heads chopped off in a big red pot

6 pots with around 40 stems cut and planted on them. I put rooting compound on and used a mix of sand and potting compost

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 10d

Having Claude Code handle some sweepy broomy exercises, and I feel like this is the sort of thing it can really shine at. Very much a linter on steroids

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Konstantin @iamkonstantin.eu · 11d

KDE Fedora 43 upgrade was so smooth 🤩! Some companies are famous for trying to make things that "just work", but this particular FOSS, maintained-by-volunteers OS raises the bar to "you don't even know something substantial happened" levels of just works.

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 11d

Spent some of this afternoon building a 3D printed Optimus Prime figure (he'll actually transform!). One of my birthday presents from last week 🎁

This file on Cults3D - cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/...

So much fun 😊

#Transformers #3DPrinting

Transforming Hero Truck

This model is inspired by Optimus Prime from Transformers. This Hero Truck model is capable of transforming from robot to truck, and is fully articulated in robot mode. Each piece is colour seperated to customise your print without paint! This print will require the purchase of additional 1mm diameter pins and superglue from your local hardware store. To learn how to assemble your Hero Truck, please follow the instructions in the video linked below: https://youtu.be/YKT1ol2FRR4

cults3d.com

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 12d

1/7 I'm excited to share something I've been working on since April: build.ms/ai.

It began when @jeremyb.bsky.social came by and I told him I could teach him enough about AI in three hours to build his app idea. We didn't *quite* finish, but to quote him "I'm so grateful I've found this new hobby."

A comic panel of a sketch pad that says "Your Idea Pad"

A computer monitor with two people on a Zoom call and a coding environment open on the right side of the screen.

A finished iPhone app called Penny Pincher.

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 11d

I have to have some fun when making demos and prototypes 😅

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 12d

Further progress on my immediate mode Swift GUI today, toggles are working! 😅

Not pictured here but also today:
Multitouch

A type safe debug printer so I can mute different parts of the stack (at 60fps it gets spammy)

And a whole bunch of logic in the drag system

#Swift #ImmediateModeGUI

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 12d

Fuck no 😆

a man in a nike shirt is standing in front of a door and talking to someone .

Alt: Roy Kent from Ted Lasso in a nike shirt is standing in front of a door and talking to someone .

media.tenor.com

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Tom Rademaker @radmakr.com · 13d

what if we all just stopped using AWS?! 👀

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Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 12d

Love it!

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 15d

lol, you’re complaining about people complaining here mate 😅

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 16d

I managed to bork my ForgeJo instance when upgrading the container… linode's backups have failed.

Time for some change. I'm planning to bring it all onto my home server, and then push remote backups to a Hetzner storage box.

Right now, I've no need for anything publicly served

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 17d

The constant cross over storylines in my experiences are just tropey now tbh !

Dave Lightbeam @lightbeaminsight.bsky.social · 17d

I've a head full of things for my UI library for Swift and iOS I want to add next. I want to get it my own 0.1 capability and then swerve off to see if I can get it running on Android. So far this experiment has been a lot of fun.

But today, is garden chores 😃

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Swift Language @swift.org · 18d

📣Announcing the first preview releases of Swift for Android, enabling you to build Android business logic with the same Swift that you use for Apple platforms. www.swift.org/blog/nightly... #Android

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