Oscar Bazaldua
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Oscar Bazaldua
@oscb.bsky.social
Ungrateful computers.

From 🇲🇽, currently living in the beautiful PNW (Seattle)

🎉 Long Ago app now in the App Store!

💻 Current work: Microsoft AI Debuggers
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October 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It’s very sad to hear #pocket is going offline.
It was my favorite app for a very long time and my first big sideproject was to automate delivering your articles as magazines to Kindles!
During college that was one of the big places I always wanted to work at.
May 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Happy #Mustang Birthday for those of us who celebrate! 🐴
April 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
🎁 Long Ago v1.3 is out now!

It’s a huge update containing not only the Apple Watch app and complications but also 5 new themes, new reminder options, new chart widgets and a lot more.
Also it’s now in Spanish!

apps.apple.com/us/app/long-...

#buildInPublic #SwiftUI #indieApp
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This comic represents my work life.
March 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just added previews to notifications in @[email protected]

I bet most people won’t notice them but devil’s in the details

#SwiftUI #BuildInPublic #iOSDev
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I found a purpose for it. I love how it looks!

#buildInPublic #SwiftUI #iosDev
March 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Sometimes I just do #SwiftUI components because I like the challenge without any clear purpose.

Here’s a marquee that also supports manual scrolling. That last part in particular was tricky than I expected given that for some reason `.scrollPosition` does not report user scrolls.

#BuildInPublic
March 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’m particularly fond of this theme based on Day of the Dead colors.

It was quite a big deal in my high school. We did altars competitions every year and my class won a few. Great memories.
March 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The next release of Long Ago is packed with new themes.

I added a bunch of color themes inspired by the colors of my native Mexico and my adoptive PNW.

Also you can finally choose a different light and dark theme!

#BuildInPublic #SwiftUI #iOS
March 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
All widgets now show up in Apple Watch.

Just a few tweaks away from a release!

#BuildInPublic #iosDev #SwiftUI
March 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I love Swift Charts.
The API is incredibly descriptive and easy to use.

The more I work with #SwiftUI the more I appreciate it. Sure, some bugs are very obscure, but the momentum you get when you start working with it is amazing.

So many new features shipped and in progress!
#BuidInPublic
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
👀
Looking for #testflight Beta testers for v1.3 !

Apple Watch app is almost ready!
You can review all your activities and track them right from your wrist.

I’ll be adding more complications soon!

Join the beta: testflight.apple.com/join/lSUBOcUu

#iOSApps #BuildInPublic #HabitTracker #SwiftUI
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Long Ago v1.2.0 is out now! 🦖

📊 **NEW: Smarter Goal Tracking**

🏷️ **NEW: Categories**

⚡ **NEW: Quick Revert and Edits**

Plus: Faster, Nicer, and with a bunch of little fixes!

Download here: apps.apple.com/us/app/long-...

💙
#iOSApps #HabitTracker​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #BuildInPublic #SwiftUI
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’ve made so many bad career choices
March 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Next Release of Long Ago is almost ready!

- Positive and Negative goals
- Categories, more filters, more focus filter options
- Quick Revert, Edit Tracks, tracks grouped by dates
- Faster sync times, faster graphs!
- And a bunch of little fixes and animations!

#BuidInPublic #swiftUI #iosDev
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Next release of LongAgo has a long requested feature: categories!

Wasn’t in my reléase plan yet but might as well.

Also positive and negative goals, new editor controls, grouped history by date, faster sync times, undo, and a lot more

#buildInPublic #iosDev #swiftUI
February 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Here you go!
Accessibility wise I need to revisit VoiceOver though since it needs some tweaks
February 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here it is integrated into the Editor of @[email protected]

Had to make some adjustments but I like it! I also added an extra: you can long press on the unit to quickly switch to any other!

Plus it supports typing and dynamic scaling!

#buildInPublic #swiftUI #iosDev
February 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Just added unit selection to my step control after realizing I needed a new unit selection to match in LongAgo

Iterated through a lot of versions until I found something I liked.

#swiftUI #iosDev #buildInPublic
February 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm really liking this github like control I made in #swiftUI for Long Ago

I made it all configurable so that the icon sizing can be changed but it can also adapt to the available space, unless you constrain it to a minimum set of rows and/or cols.

Super fun to build!

#buildInPublic
February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Putting the numeric input altogether into my testing app (aka unreleased pomodoro app that will never get finished)

On to Long Ago now!

#buildInPublic #swiftUI #swift
January 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I just need 1 follower to reach the perfect number, then I’m locking my follows.
January 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It’s been a while since I had the chance to do Swift but I’ve been toying around with an idea for numeric inputs I had for Long Ago.

#swiftUI #iosDev #BuildInPublic
January 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM