Close up photo of a small bee holding on to a bright green leaf.
A small bee (leafcutter?) hanging on to our mock orange leaf in the stiff breeze.
#bee #insect #gardening #photography
It handles any currency, but that’s no good if the invoices etc that are produced are all in English 😬
I’ve got a long list of features and bug fixes for SoloTime that I’m gradually working through. One thing I really need to do though is sort out localisation properly for non-English speaking countries. Might take a while 🤔
#indiedev #swift #swiftui
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Nice Q&A with @manmademoon.bsky.social and Stuart Fenegan (along with a v short teaser) on the upcoming Rogue Trooper movie, which is of course based on the long-running @2000ad.bsky.social series. deadline.com/2026/04/rogu...
The weather is so nice this morning that I really don’t want to go and sit at a computer. But I shall steel myself and relocate to the shed shortly. Honest.
#indiedev #workorplay #shedlife
Photo of a cup of coffee on a wooden table with the sun behind. The cup is white with a green cartoon Herdy sheep.
Weeknote!
⏳ The internet’s time machine is starting to run out of time itself
🤮 Liquid Glass is still awful
💻 MacBook Air M5 reviewed
👾 Neo Geo is back. Again. And it’s still spendy.
🧱 Loads and loads of Lego
reverttosaved.com/2026/04/19/w...
Pavement parking is dangerous to wheelchair users, visually impaired people and parents walking their children to school. I've just written to my MP today. Join me.
Pavements are for pedestrians. @livingstreets.bsky.social
act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/189938/...
After some experimentation with my ASO on SoloTime, I’ve managed to get it as the top search result in one of the less popular search terms, which is good. Now I just need to figure out how to replicate that with other keywords that might get more downloads… 🤔
#indiedev #appstore
Important red kite sausage roll origin update.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"A biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife also reviewed video footage of the bear’s activities and determined that the animal was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the California Department of Insurance said."
Bit of a different column today, which I hope people find interesting: The internet’s time machine is starting to run out of time itself // Nothing on the internet lasts, and that’s why the Wayback Machine’s problem is your problem too www.stuff.tv/features/the...
In my experience they struggle to generate the same small functions and classes from scratch. Anything they do generate needs to be code reviewed and thoroughly tested. Almost defeats the object. If you’ll pardon the pun.
SwiftLeeds CFP Closing Soon 👀
In 2 weeks, we'll be closing our CFP for SwiftLeeds.
Remember, all speakers (new and existing) will be given FREE speaker training, and we'll help you through the process.
If you're on the fence, you should submit 🤩
sessionize.com/swiftleeds-k...
People are getting some long term health conditions up to 2 years earlier than they would if we were breathing clean air.
That's people losing up to 2 years pain free, 2 years with energy, able to do all the things that matter to them.
share.google/t61ru2BTF1Il...
🧵 1/3
Very grateful for all the beta feedback coming in!
Here’s another requested change, to make filling your paint library much less cumbersome.
Join the beta at vitrineminis.com
#miniatures #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #warhammer #wargames #wepaintminis #tabletop #buildinpublic #indiedev
It was only in review for 2 minutes, which is a new record for one of my apps! Anyway, have made it free again for first 5 levels and tweaked screen shots to hopefully improve ASO.
#indiedev #indiegame
apps.apple.com/gb/app/space...
I actually got round to doing some programming today and updated two of my apps - one’s currently waiting for review and the other is waiting for me to figure out why it doesn’t work 🤔
#indiedev #swift
Photo of a soil border next to a lawn. On the soil there are hundreds os small green seedlings starting to come up.
Tons of seedlings popping up where I scattered them last week. Should be interesting in a few more weeks!
#gardening
My first Pre-Order is live on the App Store 🥳
diu is a to-do list designed to help you understand what actually motivates you to get things done.
Launching May 1: apps.apple.com/app/id675885...
If you want to try it out early, join TestFlight at getdiu.com.
#indiedev #iosdev #buildinpublic
Close up photo of some bright orange tulip flowers.
It’s these tulip “Blushing Apeldoorn” that we planted last autumn. Such a good colour in the borders.
#gardening #flower #tulip
Bit of a thunderstorm here. I just made it into my shed before the heavens opened ⛈️
#aprilshowers #shedlife
Photo of a mug of coffee on a table outdoors. The morning sun is about to disappear behind a house.
A big fat golden sunset over a flat moor, hills behind, scattered white and grey clouds.
Treated ourselves to a bigger hill, making the most of the light nights. Sunset from Pendle. Couldn't move for bunnies, gambolling lambs, spotted a kestrel, boot removal serenaded by owls. 💜
A Mac, iPad and iPhone running Solotime app.
SoloTime makes it easy to track your time on projects, create and send invoices in seconds, build quotes, record your expenses and more...
#b2b #indiedev #freelance #contractor #business
apps.apple.com/gb/app/solot...
Please meet Inlay - my very first #GleamLang package 🚀
It lets you embed urls for popular socials and content websites (e.g. if you include a link to a post in a Lustre component or a markdown static website, it becomes a cool looking widget)
github.com/kkostov/inlay
#ElixirLang #WebDev #IndieDev
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Photo taken low down across a lawn showing purple muscari plants growing amongst the longer grass in the foreground and yellow and white plants behind at the border
The front lawn is certainly more interesting than this time last year 😊
#gardening #flowers #photography
