David Gary Wood

WWDC

AR Glasses, prediction of the hype and product cycle

I started a thread on Mastodon with a few of these easy predictions of what's landing in just over a day's time. I thought I'd collect them here. The usual gripes A majority of people will likely dislike+disparage whatever is announced in a few days. It will be too

apps

My Apps - May 2023

I have three apps in the store right now. I thought I'd just write up a post about them: Topiary Topiary is an app for managing the people you follow (and who follow you) on your Mastodon and Fediverse account. You've been on Mastodon and the Fediverse for a while

apps

Releasing Topiary

4 days ago, I released my new app, Topiary, in the App Store. It has been a great experience and a bunch of firsts for me in my approach for indie apps. * Direct feedback with users and rhe community via Testflight and building in public. I did this earlier than

Photos

Experiments with a Photo feed site in the Fediverse

Experiments with a Photo feed site in the Fediverse

Coaching

Dev Coaching

Notes on my developer coaching style

swiftui

SwiftUI - Router Pattern - 2.0

A design pattern for SwiftUI that includes dependency injection and a separation of navigation logic from each screen.

Code

Optionals and force unwrapping

Some of my rules of thumb for approaching optionals, force unwrapping, guard and if statements.

Writing

Birthday Cards

Writing birthday cards - a short piece on the process

concussion

Getting there

Some thoughts on coming back from concussion

Code

Viability vs. Want

For any indie app project I want to put time to, there is a fundamental question I have to ask myself...

Indie

My next indie project

I’m spoilt for choice. I write down all of my app ideas. They sit there in a folder in my notes app, or scribbled in real life notepads with sketches of the UI...

Writing

What is concussion like?

How concussion felt for me

Writing

You Choose

The future is not a set destination

Writing

I'll see you later

I lost my dad, when I was fairly young. It's a complex set of feelings, especially as I'm a father myself. (CW/TW, death)

concussion

My new glasses

I’m now two days into wearing my new glasses. I’m still getting used to them, and I’m still finding my feet with the remaining concussion symptoms...

Writing

The future is wireless

In our latest podcast episode, Waiting for Review, Dave Nott and I briefly discussed wireless headphones. For both of us, it seems the future is wireless...

iOS

Getting to know my customers

Surveying customers for an indie iOS app

Code

Planning… A week on

My last post was about planning. I did broadly as I said in that post, and planned out development and marketing activity for my latest app.Since doing so I have encountered a series of blockages against my planned development time. Nothing ever goes to plan, right? The Blocks: * Working

iOS

Planning as an indie developer

Planning as an indie developer

iOS

Further round and further in

Rebuilding a video mixing engine on iOS

Code

A bit of a start

My back story as an indie iOS developer

Code

My thoughts ahead of WWDC 2016

WWDC 2016 thoughts and predictions

Code

Clustering Data and Exact Matches

Matching customer data via addresses, from different sources, using SAS.

iPad

Through the eyes of a child

We upgraded devices, and our children gained hand-me-down iPads. Watching them set up their first iCloud accounts and explore their new devices was awesome.