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Collin Donnell @collin.social · Jun 19

I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 1d

I would have loved to use the Transferable protocol to export the journal entry, and I probably still could, but for now, it made more sense to bundle it all into a folder and put it in a ShareLink. It really is just a folder with all the stuff in it.

The Swift code I use to export the journal entry in the journaling app Rambler on iOS.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 1d

I would have loved to use the Transferable protocol to export the journal entry, and I probably still could, but for now, it made more sense to bundle it all into a folder and put it in a ShareLink. It really is just a folder with all the stuff in it.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 1d

In Rambler, you can export all of your journal entries! So you're not locked into the app at all. apps.apple.com/app/id674889...
youtube.com/shorts/4boQP... #iOS #indiedev #journaling

Rambler journal entry export feature! #iOS #journaling #apps #dataownership #journal

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 1d

In Rambler, you can export all of your journal entries! So you're not locked into the app at all. apps.apple.com/app/id674889...
youtube.com/shorts/4boQP... #iOS #indiedev #journaling

Rambler journal entry export feature! #iOS #journaling #apps #dataownership #journal

YouTube video by Matthew Waller

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 3d

I made a little app of fun fully 3D clocks on the Apple Vision Pro. Now it’s free to try! apps.apple.com/us/app/very-... #indiedev

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Joseph Simpson @vrhermit.com · 4d

We added a Community Calendar to keep track of all the events happening in the visionOS / Apple Vision Pro world. Check it out and let us know if you have an event to add

Step Into Vision @stepinto.vision · 4d

Introducing our new Community Calendar on Step Into Vision.

A curated list of events for the visionOS community

stepinto.vision/example-code...

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 6d

The Shortcuts Gallery in iOS is incredible. Just a ton of make-life-nicer features and no apps required

A screenshot of lots of different Apple shortcuts in the Shortcuts app gallery

Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 12d

Updated my 3D scanner: Sapling. I added a way to scale the 3D model based on height. Because turntable mode lets you scan without walking all the way around, but it didn’t have exact size info. So I built
in an AR height ruler to do that. And you can import USDZs! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMxpKm7L/

Made new change to set the height of 3D scanned objects with a virtual ruler or directly setting the height! #photogrammetry #3dscanning #USDZ #AR

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 15d

Baking is just such a wild pain to learn in Blender thus far.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 19d

Bipolar Claude is the best Claude

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 19d

I don't know if y'all are coding with Claude out there, but bro loves to make a README.md

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 24d

Comes free w/ TextEditor & editing AttributedString in iOS 26. TextEditor is still frustrating to use at time, but it has gotten a ton better. #SwiftUI #indiedev

Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 24d

You can get rich text editing in Rambler as well! You select text and then get the option in the same menu that lets you copy and paste. Go nuts :)

Example of rich text formatting in the Rambler journaling app.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 24d

You can get rich text editing in Rambler as well! You select text and then get the option in the same menu that lets you copy and paste. Go nuts :)

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 24d

You can get rich text editing in Rambler as well! You select text and then get the option in the same menu that lets you copy and paste. Go nuts :)

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 28d

Mostly using Apple's language models, so that it's local. With an optional OpenAI backup (you toggle it with a switch in settings). Though I might remove the OpenAI backup make it unambiguously private. #indiedev #iOS #AI

Code showing how I make suggested titles for AI.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 28d

Auto-generated titles! Rambler optionally uses AI to create titles for your entries based on what you talked about.

No more "New Entry" - every entry gets a meaningful name automatically.

#AI #organization #journaling #iOS #indiedev

youtube.com/shorts/M0yKB...

Auto-add journal entry titles in Ramble #iOS #indiedev #journaling

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · 28d

Auto-generated titles! Rambler optionally uses AI to create titles for your entries based on what you talked about.

No more "New Entry" - every entry gets a meaningful name automatically.

#AI #organization #journaling #iOS #indiedev

youtube.com/shorts/M0yKB...

Auto-add journal entry titles in Ramble #iOS #indiedev #journaling

YouTube video by Matthew Waller

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

It’s taking all of my willpower not to make an AI image of Altman titled: Sloppenheimer

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

Ah, that's a good point. That edit button brings up a modal to manually edit the text, so I'll have to make sure the expansion toggle and that action don't conflict.

Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

This is using the SwiftUI DisclosureGroup to hide and show the bullet points, which I think needs work. I also don't like the edit button having that much vertical space, so I gotta think about how to position things better. #buildinginpublic

Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

AI-powered bullet points! (Optional, as always) Automatically generate summaries of your rambles, or edit them to be whatever you want.

Great for quickly reviewing what you talked about, or creating your own custom summary.

#AI #buildinginpublic #genai #journaling #indiedev

Screenshot of Rambler app, showing off the bullet points feature.

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

AI-powered bullet points! (Optional, as always) Automatically generate summaries of your rambles, or edit them to be whatever you want.

Great for quickly reviewing what you talked about, or creating your own custom summary.

#AI #buildinginpublic #genai #journaling #indiedev

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

AI-powered bullet points! (Optional, as always) Automatically generate summaries of your rambles, or edit them to be whatever you want.

Great for quickly reviewing what you talked about, or creating your own custom summary.

#AI #buildinginpublic #genai #journaling #indiedev

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 5

Using the picker is simple. This is a nice way to incorporate this. The trick is supporting all of the different ways that a journaling suggestion can be accessed. You can see all the different kinds here: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Example of code using the JournalingSuggestionsPicker

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Matt Waller @wattmaller.bsky.social · Oct 7

“It is a categorical imperative to conquer at all costs”

- Genghis Kant

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