Where are the Swift/SwiftUI developers at? 🙂

This is something interesting I saw over on Threads — people asking for Swift developers so that they can connect. I should have thought of that myself over here 😛

I would like to connect with other developers — if you do Swift, much better since I can talk at least halfway intelligently about that, but I’ve done development in a bunch of other languages including Python, Kotlin, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, xBase (if you really want to dig deep …).

But I’m looking for people who post about their current development journey — what you are working on, what issues you’re running into, what interests you etc. Doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, expert, or somewhere in-between, I’m just interested in people who post and who want to have a conversation …

If you do post about this stuff regularly, ping me. I’m interested in following you 🙂

#Swift #SwiftUI #Mobile #iOS #macOS #FindingPeople #Coding

@f I’m currently bashing my head against my keyboard trying to make RealityKit do what I want it to.

@f scroll through the folks I follow. You’ll find many Swift devs here, including many from Apple. This is where a lot of Swift folk went when Twitter started falling apart.

@pixelscience That sounds rather painful … and possibly expensive? 😛 But I sympathise … Unfortunately, haven’t done a lot of RealityKit and so can’t help except sympathise …

But if you were to post about what you are stuck on maybe that helps? Even if somebody else doesn’t have an answer, I sometimes find just the fact of writing it down helps me clarify my own thoughts and arrive at a way forward …

Thanks, @cocoaphony 🙂 I suddenly have so many profiles to go through that it’s not even funny. But more the merrier! Will go through your followers once I sort out breakfast ….

@f I was just deciding whether to open a devlog account, I keep feeling like I wanna share dev stuff but I don’t wanna pollute this account for ppl who don’t care about what happens behind the scenes.

Anyway if you follow #swiftlang and #SwiftUI you’ll catch most of them :)

@f I’ve been thinking about starting to write about dev work again to make up for not coding all day anymore.

@f I don’t often post about what I’m working on, but I’m a SwiftUI developer. 👋

I’m just launching my second indie app currently.

@mipstian Personally, I think you should just post dev stuff in the same account, but that’s just me 🙂

I post about so many different things that I originally considered having different accounts but it just seemed like too much work — you have to switch between accounts, try to maintain things on each one etc. I’m just too lazy 😛

So I figured might as well just lump everything in one account and be done with it ….

@f I posted in the iOS-folks slack. Ended up filing a Feedback/radar FB12547893.

And I’m just doing a workaround instead.

Just expressing where I’m using Swift this week.

Last week, I was using Swift to make Vercel severless functions. That was fun.

@macshome You should 🙂 I find that writing and coding complement each other in a strange way — writing down my thoughts about a problem helps me clarify things and also, sometimes it gives me ideas about new things to try or code …

@maddiefuzz Nice to meet you 🙂 What’s your app about — I mean if you don’t mind talking about it?

@f that would be the other option yeah, I might poll my followers about it! I already have two accounts so adding a third wouldn’t change much 😅

@pixelscience Not even sure what “Vercel” is 🙂 Will have to look it up … so many things to look into after this round of follows …

But good luck with the RealityKit workaround!

@mipstian Do let me know if you add a separate dev account — I’d like to follow that. Unless of course, you post on this account since then I’d know anyway 😛

@f Likewise 🙂

It’s a MacOS utility for 3D printers that run MainsailOS. It runs a MenuBarExtra that gives realtime statistics and notifies you when your print has finished.

I actually just got it approved tonight. 😁

@f if I do I’ll definitely post about it on this account :)

@maddiefuzz Sounds cool, and congratulations on the approval 🙂

I might love menubar apps a bit too much since I keep making them since they are so handy. So can appreciate another menu bar app 😛

@f ty!

Can I ask what kinds of projects you've worked on?

@maddiefuzz That’s a rather long story if we start way back at the beginning — which was over 30 years ago 😛

But I stared iOS dev around 14 years ago I think? That’s still too far away, isn’t it? 😀

These days I do mobile for work (both iOS and Android) but most of my personal apps tend to be either macOS only (if it’s just for me) or macOS/iOS hybrids (if they are for both the wife and I) …

Specifically, in the area of menubar apps, the most recent ones are:
* An app to check RSS feeds and site updates (via scraping) to update me on changes to specific newsfeeds.

* An app to auto-post to Twitter with a dynamically generated tweet at a scheduled time.

* A todo/task management app.

Just simple, small apps which scratch a specific itch. Nothing revolutionary or ground-breaking, but I just code up things because I can’t find something around which meets my specific use-case …

@f That’s about where I’ve been, I wind up starting an app to scratch an itch, but it snowballs into a full release that others wind up appreciating.

@maddiefuzz I get you totally … well, maybe except for the release part 😛

I generally do stuff because I or the wife want it, but I can’t be bothered to go the final 5% and package it up for distribution. So it ends up being used by the two of us and sometimes we forget about the app after a while and then a year or two later, it gets resurrected again because we had the need for it again …

That’s happened many times. My hard drive is a literal graveyard of unreleased apps 😀

@f I don’t generally post a lot but I do try to answer questions. Currently #Swift seems undecided whether it’s the hashtag for the language or the bird. But as far as I’ve found it’s had the most swift language posts.

@PeteZ Oh, didn’t know that #Swift is used for the bird too 🙂 I use the hashtag a lot but hadn’t actually tried following that hashtag or #SwiftUI. Probably should … talk about missing the obvious 😛

@f Same here, there are many more projects that will never be released.

That last 5% is tricky.

“The first 80% of a project takes 80% of the time, the last 20% also takes 80% of the time.” 😵‍💫

@f Keen Swifty here with emphasis on Mac app development. I love SwiftUI. I blog at https://troz.net and have written a couple of macOS books for kodeco.com. #Swift #SwiftUI #macOS

@f @cocoaphony hello. Swift devs everywhere. And here as well.

@troz Hey 🙂 I used to write for Kodeco, or rather, RayWenderlich.com, I don’t think I’ve written anything since they became Kodeco …

I was probably the first tech editor at rw.com but that was a very, very long time ago 😀

@NeroWolfe Hey 🙂 Maybe you get this all the time, but did you know that there's a fictional detective named after you? (Or maybe that’s not your name and you picked your name on here because of the detective, I don’t know …)

@f for I’ve took name after Nero Wolfe. My favorite detective and series of detective novels.

@f by the way, this is the first time ever someone asked me about.

@NeroWolfe I figured that might be the case, but it never pays to make assumptions 😀

@NeroWolfe I guess that says more about my age than anything else 😛

I couldn’t remember who wrote Nero Wolfe and my mind initially said it was Sax Rohmer and I had to look it up to realize that I was somehow confusing Rohmer’s Nayland Smith with Nero Wolfe for some reason...

I’m still trying to figure out the association 🙂

@f Rex Staut. And yes this says about my age too.

@ryan Thank you 🙂 Will do.

@f I’ve found that following the #Swift #Xcode and some other related hashtags brings a lot of interesting people into my timeline. That’s how I bootstrapped my follows.

@finestructure @f I think that’s how I followed you, Sven, btw.

@finestructure Funny thing is that I find my posts mostly when I try the #Swift hashtag 😛 But that’s probably due to federation … Should have given that a try already. Will try and see how it goes, thanks!

@f Ah, it looks like you’re on your own instance! That’s going to throw a spanner in the works, because you’ll only see the hashtags of people you already follow. I saw @QuietMisdreavus trying to fix this via a relay, let me find the post!

@f @QuietMisdreavus https://squad.town/@QuietMisdreavus/110681004553550035

@f I am more of a instructor than a developer, but yep I'm in the #Swift and #SwiftUI realm, and working on getting something out for #SwiftData

@finestructure Yep, that’s why finding people to follow was a bit more workable than it is when you are on a big instance since that feeds back into the federation to make hashtags more useful after the fact 🙂

Thanks in advance for finding the post about the relay …

@MakeAppPie If you are talking about #Swift or #SwiftUI, I don’t really mind whether it is as a developer or as an instructor 🙂 I just want all the Swift-talk since it gets me thinking about stuff I wasn’t aware of or hadn’t thought of in quite that way …

@f Hey Fahim, long time no see :)

I often join in on conversations or help answer questions I see but don’t post much of my own. Been developing iOS apps for 14(?) years now. All in on Swift and SwiftUI.

Hey @cwagdev 🙂 Wow, it has been a long time, hasn’t it? I can’t believe it has been this long …

@f use #swiftlang to find us anywhere 😉

@alexito4 Hashtags work well if you are on a big instance, but no so much if you are on a smaller/personal instance 🙂 Hence looking for more people to follow thus increasing the effectiveness of hashtags on my own instance …

But thank you 🙂

@finestructure @f @QuietMisdreavus wait, does this mean that my following a hashtag will only show posts tagged with said hashtag on my own instance?

@joforselldev It’ll show you hashtags from your own instance or from people you follow on other instances (and possibly) people they follow. But not all the hashtags out there … if that makes sense? @finestructure @QuietMisdreavus

@f @finestructure @QuietMisdreavus yeah thanks. Thinking about it I guess it’s reasonable that you can’t catch a tag from everywhere, since you’d need to scan every possible instance all the time otherwise…

@joforselldev Yep 🙂And this is one scenario that I miss all the time when I decide to set up my own instance … As in, this is not the first time I’ve forgotten this particular downside 😛

I love having my own instance since I can customise a lot of things, but missing out on hashtags is one of the big downsides. My instance will sometimes pull a post from a different instance that is like months old because that post matched a hashtag but the post was only federated now because I followed somebody or something ...

Ah well, the joys of tech 😛

@finestructure @QuietMisdreavus

@f Sometimes I post swift questions and things, but only if I work on something. I only use swift on hobby projects though.

@noim As long as you post about Swift coding sometimes, I’m here to follow 😛

@f it may be also be worth setting up an account on a busier server and following #swift & #swiftui there to see which accounts you want to follow in your main account.

@f following people makes sense ;) i was just suggesting a way to find them. When I joined i looked at hashtags in different servers and was a good technique. The pages are public afaik

@f I talk about iOS dev a lot haha

But also there’s the instance iosdev.space run by @heyjaywilson !

@joforselldev @f @finestructure https://relay.fedi.buzz/ is a pseudo-relay that can slurp down public hashtag feeds from other servers. it's self-hostable too.

@joforselldev @f @finestructure there are tools based on https://github.com/g3rv4/FakeRelay that can also do this.

@vyr Oh, cool! Thanks for that 🙂Will look into it … @joforselldev @finestructure