Twitter: @chrishannah. Swift developer, blogger, and creator of Text Case, Pretty Regular Expressions, and more. You’ve made a series of utilities that address specific needs. Could you tell us about a few and where the ideas for each came from? I’ve never really ever thought about it like that, but I suppose I have! I...
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Home Screen: Oisin Prendiville
Twitter: @prendio2. Co-founder of Supertop and creator of Castro. I’ve had this pure black background ever since I got the iPhone X. It annoys me that the Netflix icon bleeds into it, but otherwise I enjoy how good it looks on the OLED screen and how all focus goes to the icons. I try to...
Interview: Brian Mueller
Twitter: @BrianMueller333. The maker of CARROT Weather, To-Do, Alarm, Fit, and Hunger. What’s your approach for the upcoming Siri shortcuts in iOS 12? How did you decide which CARROT features to make available as shortcuts? I wanted to make it possible to use CARROT via Siri exclusively, so that you wouldn’t even need to launch...
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Home Screen: Matt Birchler
Twitter: @mattbirchler. Writing at BirchTree.me, creator of Today’s Forecast for iOS and the BirchTree podcast. My iPad is where I do almost all of my work, so I try my best to optimize it for what I actually use my iPad for. The essentials get thrown in the dock and everything else I use on...
Interesting Links
The New York Times explains how banks and retailers use digital fingerprinting based on users’ interaction with devices as a way to determine identity, a technology that also raises privacy concerns and is being blocked in Safari as part of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave. (Link) Casey Johnston pokes holes in claims that truly self-driving...
Interview: Mike Piontek
Twitter: @robotspacer. Founder of Junecloud, creator of Deliveries for iOS and the Mac. How did you get started as a developer and with creating Deliveries? I grew up making things on Macintosh computers. I’ve always been more into art than programming, but tools like HyperCard and Director made it easy to play around with animation...
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