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Jay Cohen

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πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»Head of mobile | Indie⚑️Developer & 🎨 designer. "If it works, I totally meant it. If it doesn't, it's a feature." #ADHD with a bit of #AuDHD thrown in

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Ironically, the first two featured blog posts on builder.ai's linked in page. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

26.05.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

CoreData n CloudKit relationship has improved so much the experience is seamless. Not like it used to be 😱

#SwiftUI

09.05.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Something cool for the Hike app at night perhaps?

07.05.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Use this tip if you're an indie dev building in #SwiftUI for the first or second time and you're struggling with weird animation issues affecting layouts.

Use `.id(UUID())` to force the parent view to reset and redraw without using existing @State properties or layout configs in the cache.

07.05.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the biggest challenges you'll face as a developer/designer is building an editable UI with options and state management.

#buildinpublic, #swiftui

02.05.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Say your a dev without saying it.

"I'll instantly visit a website when a see a domain name on an email sent to me."

#buildinpublic #swiftui

22.04.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Since the surge of #buildinpublic I've seen less people asking for help for equity in making their game or app.πŸ€”

17.04.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a tasty one! How long to get to 1.8gb?

15.04.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Stacy's Mom
YouTube video by Fountains of Wayne - Topic Stacy's Mom

Currently rocking the standing desk on repeat.

youtu.be/sT_hnNDstnE?...

15.04.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just seen an online assessment service that wanted to record your camera, voice and screen. Not a good starting point for the employer to not trust the candidate.😱

#buildinpublic #swiftui

11.04.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep a learning journal of your products journey with the documentation of how it all works. Pays off huge when you come to build anything new or to sell. 🌴

#buildinpublic, #swiftui

09.04.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - alessiorubicini/SFSymbolsPickerForSwiftUI: A SwiftUI view for selecting SF symbols in your app A SwiftUI view for selecting SF symbols in your app - alessiorubicini/SFSymbolsPickerForSwiftUI

Like a good learning exercise πŸŽ“. Here's another one, might help your memory leak issue:
github.com/alessiorubic...

09.04.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we may have entered a state of craziness with certifications πŸ€”πŸ”–

#swiftui, #buildinpublic

08.04.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, 1 channel for 6-12 months and focus on quality, not quantity πŸš€

05.04.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes an unplanned day off from projects can yield new ideas. Yesterday was that day and now there's 3 new features in the backlog 🌱

#buildinpublic, #swiftUI

04.04.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A good inspiring update launch πŸŽ‰
I did have to redownload the app to get the update though as it didn't trigger during the event. πŸ”„

03.04.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a fan of creating generic views or components only to make them not generic over product lifetimes. Refactoring costs lives! 😜

#SwiftUI, #buildinpublic

01.04.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do competitor research before you start to build out your idea. Execution works great but only if your 10x better than the other 40,000 products.

#buildinpublic, #swiftui

28.03.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As smart and bulky our IDE's become and after so many years of working in Xcode, it still doesn't recognise this is my "go to" DispatchQueue πŸ˜‚

`DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(wallDeadline: .now() + 0.3)` {
// Do something funky!
}`

#SwiftUI, #buildinpublic

25.03.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone else not a huge fan of the product team creating new Slack channels every week? 🀯

#buildinpublic #swiftUI

20.03.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Been wrestling with a gnarly component design at the weekends - that is now successfully in the trash and I'm going native. πŸ—‘οΈ

Sometimes you don't know if something can't be done unless you give it a try! 🎨

#SwiftUI, #buildinpublic

19.03.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Usually the first thought needs a rethink, at least for my 🧠

18.03.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman wearing glasses says " fo sho " on a pop tv ad ALT: a woman wearing glasses says " fo sho " on a pop tv ad

Love your shizz!

12.03.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is laying on a bed with a man and saying `` there is no dana , only zuul . '' ALT: a woman is laying on a bed with a man and saying `` there is no dana , only zuul . ''

Zook? - I think it should be renamed.

12.03.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like a customer service call!

11.03.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just about to blow up Xcode Cloud with 2 PR’s running alongside each other - Just to make my Tuesday afternoon interesting! πŸš€

#SwiftUI

11.03.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Old but gold!

Passion rarely = πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°
Purpose = πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°

#SwiftUI, #BuildInPublic

11.03.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can start a career in software development at any age! The real challenge isn’t age, it’s managing expectations and navigating the reality of the journey. πŸ‹οΈ

#SwiftUI, #BuildInPublic

10.03.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

07.03.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's up with Slack desktop app on Mac recently? So slow to launch! 😴

#buildinpublic

07.03.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0