Ryan Wesley

In response to my previous blog post, My Beef with the iOS 26 Tab Bar, someone suggested a solution I hadn't considered: using a segmented control (aka segmented picker) as the foundation for emulating the tab bar.

If you're reading this blog post, you are undoubtedly aware of the controversy surrounding Apple's newest design system, a.k.a.

It’s a common problem developers face when building iOS apps: you have a SQLite database, possibly backed by Core Data, and you want to use it to support features in your app extensions, such as widgets and intents.

A week ago, the Foodnoms Database suffered the worst outage in over five years, with 5–6 hours of degraded service.

When I first started as an indie dev, I had a romanticized idea of what it meant to go solo.

I had mistakenly regained some respect for Zuckerberg in recent years, but Meta’s announcements this week have once again made it clear that he possesses no character or integrity.

The most recent update to Foodnoms introduced a notes field for recipes.

Yesterday, I concluded a two-week experiment on the Foodnoms onboarding paywall screen.

For the past month, I have spent the majority of my working time in Xcode (and Visual Studio Code), working on a major refactor of Foodnoms.

In my previous full-time role, I was a software engineer on a growth team.

Last week, I published CloudSyncSession, a Swift library that builds on top of the CloudKit framework to make it easier to write sync-enabled, offline-capable apps.

I was busy fixing some bugs yesterday.

People like to talk about their task management workflows and tools.

In my last dev notes post, I wrote about how Monday was exhausting.

Days like yesterday are exhausting.