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Daniel Gauthier

@danielmgauthier.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Apps (e.g. @upahead.bsky.social). I used to steal birds, but now I’m a newspaper man. He/him

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Nov 13

Okay Bluesky might actually have legs? I don’t remember how to tweet but maybe I’ll start trying again.

I make an app called Up Ahead. It’s been called “the best countdown app, hands down” and “why this is subscrimption??? 1 star”. I’d love for you to check it out.

apps.apple.com/ca/app/up-ah...

‎Up Ahead: Countdown Widgets

‎Up Ahead is a playful, beautiful way to keep track of everything you’re looking forward to. Create events in seconds, and build yourself an eclectic timeline full of birthdays, weddings, holidays, va...

apps.apple.com

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think they usually recommend not putting your hand into the blender while it’s running

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · May 14

Any way to get my hands on one of these in Canada? I need this more than anything

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Apr 19

…hoops to avoid putting my home address up there, and for some reason my registration to get a PO Box up with Apple got borked. So working to get that fixed!

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Apr 19

Yes, the app is very much still supported, just hasn’t seen a lot of significant updates recently due to life stuff. The reason it’s not in the Polish App Store right now is because of EU regulations requiring devs to put an address and phone number on the App Store. Had to jump through some…

Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Apr 19

Dibs

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Apr 5

a woman and a stuffed animal are looking at each other in front of a tv

ALT: a woman and a stuffed animal are looking at each other in front of a tv

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Mar 28

Do I look American to you???

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Mar 28

Tysm plz fix

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 23

I’ll mostly just be talking about how much I love sports and cold weather

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 23

I’m going to say a bunch of made up things with a lot of conviction. Don’t miss it!

Deep Dish Swift 2026 • April 12th to 14th @deepdishswift.com · Jan 23

📣 Speaker Announcement

Oh Bother, are you struggling with your app designs too? Up Ahead at Deep Dish Swift 2025 we have someone that can help you...

@danielmgauthier.bsky.social will be taking the stage with "Make Nice Things: An Engineer's Made-Up Guide to App Design" 🤩

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy to invite you to "iOS Folks" if you'd like — that's probably the biggest one (not indie-specific but definitely lots of independent devs there). DM me your email address if you want in!

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 6

Oh no! Let me take a look, sorry bout that

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Deep Dish Swift 2026 • April 12th to 14th @deepdishswift.com · Jan 4

Nearly half of the Deep Dish Swift 2025 tickets have been sold and we haven’t even announced any speakers yet 🤯

The excitement you all have for this year’s event is so heartwarming🥰

But also… who wants some speaker announcements next week? 👀

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Jan 3

I constantly get tripped up by this

Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 31

a cartoon character 's arm is glowing with a pink light

Alt: The genie from Aladdin being freed at the end of the movie.

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 31

Here’s a little highlight reel of all the things I accomplished in 2024! Excited to keep this up in 2025 🥳

The classic “image not found” windows icon

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 30

I wanted to write in in SpongeBob-case but got lazy

Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 30

Inspiring and so well deserved!!

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 30

I think so? Hopefully???

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 30

@ryanashcraft.com extremely minor bug report: on this screen, after switching weight and height units from metric to imperial (Canadians have no idea what their weight or height is in metric), it’s still showing a cm measurement in the height field!

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 28

as a service

Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 24

🤝

Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 24

I love my 8 empty mugs and 13 empty cans of Lacroix

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Daniel Gauthier @danielmgauthier.bsky.social · Dec 24

Okay this is some of your finest work