JP Simard

After working in mobile engineering for about a decade and a half, across multiple eras of iOS and Android tooling, languages, and architectural approaches, I’ve never been more excited about the landscape than I am right now.

My son and I built an NFC-based music player so he can play the music he wants, develop his own musical taste but most of all so that he and I could have something fun to build together.

tl;dr; Implementing SwiftLint using SwiftSyntax instead of SourceKitten would make it run over 20x slower 😭 Update: Since writing this post, I learnt that SwiftSyntax’s upcoming byte tree deserialization mode will speed this up considerably.

Norio Nomura and I (ok, honestly mostly Norio 😅) have been building a Swift library for encoding & decoding YAML for the last 18 months and it’s now stable enough to make a 1.0 release and share with the world.

Building a serverless photo gallery?

To support a fancy new language, nifty realtime IDE features and impressive cross-language interoperability, Apple had to develop several new underlying tools.

I recently gave a talk on Swift at the SF/SV Swift Language User Group meetup.

Using a private VPN has never been easier, it’s foolish not to do it.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining an awesome YC company in San Francisco, starting in 2 weeks!

I’ve just given a fresh coat of iOS7-flavoured paint to my most popular open-source library: JPSThumbnailAnnotation.

I really like iOS 7’s topLayoutGuide and bottomLayoutGuide.

Keeping a project modular is a lofty software development goal that we all strive for even though it can never be fully attained.

CocoaPods documentation isn’t very opiniated, which can cause confusion for newcomers.

The fun times building a tiny open source class to use an iOS device’s hardware volume buttons in 3rd party apps.

This is my road (so far) to WWDC13.

I just released a new iOS component called JPSThumbnailAnnotation which is a great way to display thumbnails on a map.

I’ve been building Magnetic Bear Studios for the last two years.

Yesterday, I open sourced a Letterpress[1] cheating app for iPhone.

How MBS is leading the way to creating a new type of agency: a fully open one.

Writing my goals for 2013 publicly to keep myself accountable.