Brent Deverman

Behind the scenes video of Fdoo Fdoo meets the public!

Menu translation app coming to the App Store on Sept 1st Following up quickly from my last newsletter because I need your help with a deadline.

Learn the Process for Writing Toy Story 3 and the mistakes made This is one of those gem YouTube videos that doesn’t have millions of views but that you can learn so much and apply it to your creative endeavors.

Pitch for Fdoo App for Culinary Adventurous Travelers Interviewing travelers in Bali led to the realization that they are using multiple apps to understand and translate menus at restaurants.

I just got an award for having a streak of 150 days of using Reddit.

For my current Apple Developer Academy assignment I’m researching co-working spaces in Bali and the businesses that use them.

Kishikawa Katsumi has put out to the public some interesting Swift tools that I wanted to note.

I like creating tools 🛠️ to solve my own problems.

Jesse asked this question and my response without thinking deeply: I guess it must be @Apple over 30+ years. pic.twitter.com/DiOPRtmrgg — Brent Deverman (@bdeverman) July 20, 2026 Respond if you have a thought on X.

We also got the obligatory photo with Paul Hudson.

Lost the App Battle 15–22.

A little bit of sadness washed over me today when I went to revisit my old employer’s website.

Today in the Apple Developer Academy, we put sticky notes to described the words that came to people’s minds as an exercise in personal branding.

The Story of Robbin Robbin is an AR archery game where your hand becomes the bowstring.

Apple is leaning into Agentic AI and has just announced an MCP server to control Safari.

I was working on an app for translating menus for travelers called Fdoo.

For this site, I’m using Saga to generate the site.

I’m exploring uses of the Swift language and as I was launching this new website I found TelemetryDeck from a post on the Swift.org website.

Researching resources for making an augmented reality app.

I found interesting videos from the last Swift Barcelona meetup on their YouTube channel.

I have been listening to the podcast “Manager Tools” for over 10 years and practicing their recommendations in my own company and projects.

Remember to setup Legacy Contacts with your Family on your Apple accounts so you can get into their accounts when they pass away.

The Swift language has a book in HTML form and here is a repository that generates PDFs and Epub versions of the book.

I saw a demo on X of a dynamically generated user interface, I guess you can say a text to pixel web browser that made an impression on me so I’m noting it here because this is something to watch and I think it is going to be very important in the future.

Using encrypted DNS is one less way that you can be tracked, and some countries block certain websites through DNS.

For years I’ve been interested in what was called the “quantified self” space and so I’ve been using apps to track simple bio markers.

I started to put the accounts related to AI that show up own my X feed into an X list.

The Internet Archive digitized one guys bootleg concert recordings.

Last year I was able to attend the TrySwift!

The other day I met a young lad who just graduated high school.

Want to get into the Apple Developer Academy in Bali?

People are buying expensive streaming boxes from China that are compromising their network.

I found this GitHub repository for haptics patterns called Pulsar it is cross platform but supports Swift.

This git repository is a good community recommendation for learning paths of iOS Development.

Text your partner random emojis during the day to show you care

I watched both Conan O’Brian and Arsenio Hall when I was growing up so it was very entertaining to listen to them chat about the those times on Conan’s podcast.

Saw this app called Coax featured on MacBreak Weekly as a better view on your Plex library.

I’ve been paying attention to the App market now that I have joined the Apple Developer Academy.

I dragged a project from Omnifocus onto the macOS Calendar app and it has a little open button for Omnifocus that takes me straight to the project.

Exended interview with Lex Fridman and Jensen Huang.

The IFC has an outdoor space that anyone can use.

Love dropping in with three other talented strangers and trying to build something while everyone is hitting their 4am breaking point.

I was looking to add a Solarized theme to my Mac OS Terminal and I found that there is a site dedicated to themes for terminals including Ghosty which I also use.

I needed to find if my Synology was showing on my network and after rebooting.

https://youtu.be/8TsHZpTd-Y8 The Shortcuts App on iOS has an automation section that lets you schedule shortcuts to run at a certain time.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0dZAZOQeSH8 In 2014 a camera crew came to Shenzhen to spend a week filming me for a China wide CCTV4 broadcast of a television show called “Foreigners in China”.

I’ve been using Ulysses for years, and it’s been great, but lately, I’ve realized it’s become a bit of a dumping ground for all sorts of notes and old projects I don’t need anymore.

I was just reminded of a successful approach to prevent problematic code from contaminating our codebase from a previous project.

As someone who spends at least two weeks a year in Japan with my wife the two Tim Ferris interviews with Craig Mod were a fun listen.

Simon Willison comes through again with using a script to monitor the Ollama models page that generates an Atom feed, which you can put in your RSS reader to monitor when a new model is released.