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🪛 Web & Mobile Dev
🎨 Exploring Modern UI/UX
🏗️ Building in Web3
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Ilja @xzilja.dev · Oct 18
👋 Hi everyone, just joined the platform and am looking to connect with people passionate about tech, indie dev and share interesting ui/ux ideas! I'm personally a seasoned web dev currently learning native ios development, here are some screens from the fitness app I'm building 😅
These were fun to work on! A Strava like workout session sharing with custom images and a quick action to schedule in your calendar 🗓️
August 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
All I had to do to fix my app's issues on ios 26 😅
July 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Feels nice to re-use same components in different context, while still maintaining unique value - here category chart reflects your all time breakdown and allows you to then drill down to workout specific stats as well.
June 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Home widget selection and management starting to come together really nice 🔧
June 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Few days in now, so how are people finding stability of iOS and macOS dev betas? Itching to upgrade, but during last years dev beta's a lot of stuff went wrong on my machines 😅
June 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Ever since apple intelligence was released, I was waiting for us to get access to those on device llms and it's finally here + structured codable swift responses 🔥

developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Generating content and performing tasks with Foundation Models | Apple Developer Documentation
Enhance the experience in your app by prompting an on-device large language model.
developer.apple.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Not a super productive weekend, but managed to wrap up this custom search input today 🔎
June 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Codex is quiet cool. I have a feature that tracks workout locations, so asked it to create a sheet that shows a global map for all of these. 5min in and it made a great PR.

UX is really nice, I can kick off a task and then move onto next one while I wait to review it's work.
May 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Back from an amazing hackathon with the team and managed to win one of the prizes 😁🏆 — built a "prompt to widget" canvas while exploring interesting ui/ux ideas. Backed by our api, interactive and modular.
May 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thrilled to kick off a new chapter at OpenSea ⛵️ already had a chance to work with their amazing team and am super excited to help build OS2! Will try to post interesting and useful web3 tech insights that I learn as well 📝
April 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Without exception. Every day I check my bsky feed there is always that one random post about mushrooms 🤣
April 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My kind of vibe coding
April 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Continuing with location features today. Added full interactive map to explore area around your workout. Learned about neat MapKit option that I wasn't aware of called "pointsOfInterest" that allows to display only "fitnessCenter" locations making this view less busy and more contextual 🗺️
April 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🗺️ Starting on a new feature today, by allowing users to enable workout location tracking. Next, I want to display all your workouts on a global map + count at each location, kinda like @levels.io does for travels on nomad list
April 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
TIL; you can combine Swift @Observable's with various delegate classes like location, watch etc. and update associated state values. Get's rid of so much boilerplate 🧹 here's basic location delegate I'm working on atm
March 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Decided to try @vscode.dev insiders build today, as it has new agent mode support for copilot. Very impressive! Asked it to implement new setting and after 2min all I had to do is review this absolutely perfect git diff.

It added new fields to db schema and controllers, i18n and ui to toggle it.
March 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Legitimately had chills running down my spine by the end 🧊 Everything in place for few more great Avangers movies!
First teaser for #AvengersDoomsday

In theaters May 1, 2026
March 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Absolutely amazing! 🔥

createwithplay.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Looks like @expo.dev are working on their own ui library! Looks like it is in very early stages with only few previews and mostly ios components, but if done well could really improve react-native experience even further 🔥

docs.expo.dev/versions/unv...
Expo UI
A set of platform components to build native-feeling UIs.
docs.expo.dev
March 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
So proud of how far we've progressed with Junction exchange. App is feeling like a proper defi product already, ux we achieved is just 🤌 and there are still plenty of cool improvements and features to come.
March 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New rust based / react-native like library from ByteDance that with proper css support and dual thread architecture for performance 👀

lynxjs.org
Lynx
Empower the web community and invite more to build cross-platform apps
lynxjs.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
One of the cooler db product launches I've seen recently spacetimedb.com

A spatiotemporal database focused at massive realtime games and apps where your db and compute are unified, storing every possible transaction with ability to rewind ⏳

Reminds me of smart contracts a bit
SpacetimeDB
Multiplayer at the speed of light.
spacetimedb.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just updated my developer tool starterpack. It's great to see more and more of these come online here at 🦋

go.bsky.app/3LhC1ey
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
And I thought I knew @supabase.com well 😅 - amazing behind the scenes dive video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qA...
Supabase Behind The Scenes
YouTube video by Supabase
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Did you ever notice that tiny new fade / scale animation SwiftUI tabs got in ios18? Wanted it in react-native so recreated it via following config in react navigation

Code 📝
gist.github.com/xzilja/82679...

Learn More 📚
reactnavigation.org/docs/bottom-...
React navigation swift tabs animation
React navigation swift tabs animation. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM