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Majd Taby

@jtaby

2 years

If Apple learns how to make a Mac app, Apple Music would steal so much attention from Spotify

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@jtaby

1 year

The ask: "I want to add a button" The work: Make it work on iPhone light mode... and dark mode. Landscape and portrait designs. Don't show label in landscape. On iPad give it different paddings. Different light/dark designs on mac. On macOS add a menu. Oh SwiftUI doesn't

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@jtaby

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My last project at Apple!

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@jtaby

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My last job at Apple was rebuilding to use the iPad interface on the desktop web. My soul died when I replaced the native drop down with an iPad-style popover. Still haven’t emotionally recovered from that

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3 years

Mouse cursor above an iOS prompt 🤨

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I’m into this era of icon design

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@jtaby

2 years

And here it is! First prototype of this came in 2016. This iteration has been in development for 8 months, and in planning for even longer, and somehow it still exceeded all my expectations. Thanks for everyone's hard work on the team!

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

2 years

Introducing Masks in Darkroom, giving you the ability to make local edits to your photos. Available today on iPhone, iPad, and macOS. To celebrate, we're having our first sale: 30% off the annual subscription for the next 2 weeks.

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1 year

Nobody is upset that Reddit wants to charge for API usage. We’re upset about the underhanded and backhanded way they’re doing it, and the personal false attacks on individual developers.

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@jtaby

1 year

Umm…this fucking place…

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@jtaby

1 year

Ah man. Reddit hammer has dropped. To be honest, I’d pay $2.5/month for Apollo. Reddit app is so unusable it’s either that or no Reddit.

Christian Selig

@ChristianSelig

1 year

Just got off a call with Reddit about the API and new pricing. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts.

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@jtaby

3 years

Lol I just noticed

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@jtaby

1 year

Mmmmmm Chicago

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@jtaby

1 year

💆🏻 It's like a mute feature but for the whole internet

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@jtaby

1 year

@nikitabier True for beer, untrue for coffee

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@jtaby

1 year

This sucks. And Reddit sucks for the contempt they’ve demonstrated. I’m so glad @ChristianSelig brought receipts.

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@jtaby

2 years

My entire photo editing studio

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@jtaby

3 years

It’s amazing how much better @ChristianSelig ’s Apollo is than the standard Reddit app

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@jtaby

3 years

Glamour shots for today’s bake.

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@jtaby

2 years

Editing 50MP RAW photos on an XDR in 100% as satisfying as you would think it would be.

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@jtaby

1 year

Potentially unpopular opinion, but Apple really wants you to make Mac apps feel "mac-y" but what defines the macOS aesthetic is A: Ambiguous since the iPad-ification of macOS started, and B: Outdated. Here's a trivial example

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@jtaby

2 years

Life of an iOS engineer: 1. Spend 2 days learning to use brand new API in undocumented ways 2. Spend 2 days fighting against bugs 3. Despair for a day 4. Make a reduced sample app to file a Radar 5. Realize it works 6. Find mistake 7. Have a shot of whiskey

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1 year

Absent in Steve’s narrative is him calling Christian a liar publicly and questioning his integrity during negotiations, then doubling down when called out. Bad faith actor shouldn’t be confused about bad outcomes.

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@jtaby

3 years

The entire @usedarkroom team will sit in one room today for the first time in two years. The team has doubled in size since, and the new folks have never met in person. Excited to bits!

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@jtaby

3 years

@sdw I literally remember asking a designer for an asset, and they asked me to leave their desk because they had to pull it from a secret folder I couldn’t know about

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@jtaby

3 years

Displaced is a book @sarakerens and I published in 2015 documenting the Syrian Refugee Crisis. These same narratives are dominating the news again. We're donating all sales to @RedCrossUkraine , and @usedarkroom is matching donations. Order here:

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@jtaby

1 year

Pro tip to Apple Design Award winners: you’re about to get a big spike of downloads and purchases. Try to activate as many of them as possible immediately. They will become a cohort that generates a spike of renewals every subsequent year.

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@jtaby

1 year

Remember 0% interest ?

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@jtaby

3 years

We WERE going to include a SwiftUI component in our next update, but alas, I just rewrote it in UIKit.

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@jtaby

3 years

Shoutout to @b3ll for making the animation package Apple should have built themselves. Also side shoutout to @tdonnelly for inspiring it!

GitHub - b3ll/Motion: Animation engine for gesturally-driven user interfaces, animations, and...

Animation engine for gesturally-driven user interfaces, animations, and interactions on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. - b3ll/Motion

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@jtaby

7 months

Sigh. App is rejected because the photo library permission string "doesn’t sufficiently explain the use of the photo library". The string: "Darkroom's unique features require access to all photos to browse and manage your library in one place."

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@jtaby

2 years

Sometimes I like to look at this graph for a perspective realignment. Darkroom Quarterly Sales since launch in February 2014.

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@jtaby

1 year

Gonna carry over that fire OG username to Threads it looks like

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@jtaby

3 years

*long exhale.* Just deleted all my tweets and unfollowed everyone. I'll build it back up over time...

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@jtaby

3 years

Been putting up all the prints, contact sheets, writing samples, and test drawings/paintings on the wall for motivation/inspiration and I really love the way it makes my workspace feel

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@jtaby

1 year

@mufasaYC I chose a first name whose “.co” was available and bought it before he was born lmao

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@jtaby

4 months

!!!!!

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@jtaby

1 year

I’m out at Reddit until Hoffman publicly apologizes to @ChristianSelig or steps down

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1 year

Reddit Users Revolt

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@jtaby

2 years

The shot The edit

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@jtaby

1 year

This is a wild one. Leica has forever been an inspiration. Proud of @jasperhauser and @dlouhy for making this happen!

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

1 year

Guten Tag! We've partnered with Leica to integrate their excellent Leica FOTOS app with Darkroom. If you're a Leica photographer, you can now move seamlessly from Leica > iPhone > Darkroom and vice versa in one efficient, beautiful mobile workflow.

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@jtaby

2 years

Been testing Arc by @browsercompany for a while, and it took me a good week to wrap my head around why I would use it over Safari, get used to it, sign in, etc but I must say, I find myself reaching for it more and more

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@jtaby

2 years

Amazing how much reach @KrauseFx got with this report

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@jtaby

2 years

It’s amazing how many of you haven’t muted Kocienda yet

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@jtaby

2 years

This video took me 3 hours to make. Please like it

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

2 years

Christmas present time! We’re adding Color Grading as a new Darkroom+ feature. It's an essential tool to give your photos and videos a distinct style and for making presets. Oh, and it’s also our first new top-level tool since Frames in 2018!

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@jtaby

1 year

Nailed the alignment first try

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@jtaby

1 year

Just come out and say we don’t want third party clients because we want to control and monetize the Reddit experience consistently. Don’t set false expectations, ignore them, antagonize then attack individuals who believed you.

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@jtaby

2 years

Fairly pleased with how this one turned out. It’s far from perfect, but it’s my first time casting water ripples, and I think the sky is quite convincing. Overall I think it captures the composition. Just need to work on execution.

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@jtaby

1 year

SwiftUI + TCA feels like a power-up combo for making iOS apps with complexity

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@jtaby

2 years

So sad to see what this place has become. What a shithead.

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@jtaby

2 years

How much of an insufferable douche was I, at the time? Look at this text I added at the bottom.

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@jtaby

1 year

Was literally told this in my first 6 months at apple 13 years ago. Exact phrase was “to advance at apple you either have to work on the coolest project, or you wait for your manager to leave” My project want cool and my manager was a lifer.

Joe Kennedy

@joekndy

1 year

Overheard while getting a haircut “No one listens to me at Apple. If the guy who has been there for 20 years since Steve Jobs was alive says something, they win. There’s no chance for me to progress in my career until they die”

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@jtaby

1 year

Huuuge congrats to @LukesBeard @rjonesy @josephcohen and all the other nominees! Amazing list. Best of luck to all the nominees!

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@jtaby

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There are a lot of days recently where I think about how excited I still am to show up to work every day and put in 10+ hours some days....9 years into working on Darkroom and I'm just grateful to have a setup where I can be productive, be challenged, and still maintain a healthy

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@jtaby

2 years

Finally found a way to automate posting regularly to instagram from Darkroom. I shuffle photos from the Darkroom “Exported” album to a “Share Staging”, where every day, a photo is picked, posted, and removed.

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@jtaby

8 months

Fuck this is bananas

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@jtaby

1 year

New profile pic just dropped. Wine glass inappropriate or propriate?

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@jtaby

1 year

Nobody asked, but a summary of my experience as a Tesla owner after 3 months: Summary: They got all the big details right, and all the small details wrong. Overall happy with it and glad we got it, we really needed it. The good outweighs the bad, but is full of microfrustrations

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@jtaby

3 years

If you're wondering why: I believe Twitter is contributing a lot of anxiety to my life. I've already disengaged from IG & FB, but I kept Twitter because it felt professional necessary. I'm basically questioning that last point. I'll still tweet/share, but I want to consume less

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@jtaby

2 years

Adopting Swift Concurrency has been a revelation. It's so incredibly good, I hate touching code that doesn't use it. This is what adopting new technology should feel like, unlike SwiftUI and Combine which are incredibly frustrating to use

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@jtaby

1 year

Current setup. Added the trackball because my forearm is flaring up

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@jtaby

3 years

This is actually a great example of what of felt like to be on the Internet these past 11 years as a Syrian-American

CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable

@cjzero

3 years

Incredible transition

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@jtaby

3 years

Been a week since I deleted all my tweets and unfollowed everyone. I ended up following some generic hobby-related topics, and now my feed is like, photography, art, and NBA news. It's like a mediocre reddit. Best of all, I haven't been triggered in a while!

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@jtaby

2 years

The hoops we went through to make this work securely across devices without a user account....

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

2 years

Introducing Preset Sharing in Darkroom! A single button to share, and a simple link anyone can use to install. That's it, that's the whole thing. No hosting files, importing from the Files app, etc etc.

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@jtaby

1 year

Some panoramas from the recent family roadtrip to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Anticipating these will be hella dope on the Vision Pro. Most of these are like 30,000 x 8,000 px lol

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@jtaby

2 years

Been really enjoying the pancake 27mm lens I got for my X-T4 in Mexico City. The setup is like a slightly beefy X100 camera when I want it, with the option to add another lens when needed.

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@jtaby

1 year

Exploring my Henri Cartier-Bresson phase

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@jtaby

2 years

Sooooo many companies are gonna be spawned from all these tech layoffs

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@jtaby

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One under-appreciated reality of what this takes is that the "polished" version of something usually takes far longer to build than the "working" version. That's extra cost whose ROI is indirect at best. If it's not core to your brand appeal, I don't know that it's worth it

Joie Chung

@hellojoie

1 year

Apps with a high amount of polish in the shipped product… how did you achieve this? Are designers on the hiring panel for engineers? Are visual bugs high-priority to fix before releases? Do you have extra sprints just for polish? What is your secret 👀

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Finally finished a knitting project. This took like 2 months. Insane. Gonna take on a smaller project next. But really relieved to actually see it through. It’s for my wife, I’m just modeling.

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@jtaby

2 years

Hot or not?

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@jtaby

5 months

Being back in Aleppo for the first time in 14 years is a mixed bag of emotions that only going back home after a while can give

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@jtaby

2 years

My favorite time of the year. Feeling all sorts of Christmas huge right now

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@jtaby

1 year

Christian is literally the nicest person I’ve come across in our whole industry. Shame on Reddit leadership for being so condescending. Their app is trash, and their new website redesign is bigger trash. Apollo is what kept us plugged in.

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@jtaby

2 years

This reminds me why I bolted out of SF

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@jtaby

3 years

Yay I did it! A full 7 days without any meat/poultry/fish and no alcohol. Haven't gone without meat this long in....ever? Goal is a month. 1 down, 3 to go.

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@jtaby

1 year

I'm currently of the mind that EnvironmentObject in SwiftUI should only be used for shared state that doesn't change often. Things like user sessions, app theme, etc etc. For actual app state, it's not a good idea to use it. Anyone feel otherwise, in a complex app?

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@jtaby

1 year

Am I the only one in the world that prefers google maps in this comparison? Information density is delicious

Andrew Demetriou

@andrew17876

1 year

Apple Maps has such a much nicer UI & UX in comparison to Google Maps. With Apple Maps, I know exactly what stations i’ll be going through, and the lines actually match the real-life signage colours (Orange for the BDFM Lines, Blue for the PATH line) Meanwhile… Google seems to

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@jtaby

2 years

I knot a hat

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@jtaby

2 years

Photographers wondering if AI is going to eliminate photography really need to question why they take photos in the first place

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@jtaby

2 years

Holy moly! 48mp ProRAW is no joke!

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2 years

Me, a bootstrapped founder building a profitable business, growing steadily and sustainably, watching the news

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@jtaby

2 years

I could take photos of jellyfish for days and days. (Sony A1, @usedarkroom )

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@jtaby

6 months

Slowly undoing past few years of weight-damage! Cracked into the 204’s today, from a high of 218.

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@jtaby

2 years

Alright I'm done. Finally got the drag items dropping to the right place. Love love love watching them jiggle into place.

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@jtaby

1 year

Ngl it’s been 3 years and winning an ADA is still one of the most validating and significant events in my career

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@jtaby

2 years

Ever since I got a Sony A1 all I do is zoom in on my photos just to ogle at all the pixels

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@jtaby

2 years

lmao y’all

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@jtaby

8 months

it gets crazier to do this post every year

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

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9 years ago today Darkroom was launched! Thanks to all who have been using Darkroom to edit their photos on the go for the better part of a decade. We are excited about what we have in store!

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@jtaby

2 years

Just had my first Italian pasta and gelato in Italy, with a view of the Mediterranean, in the company of my wife and our son, and…I’m just very content. Happy Father’s Day to all those who celebrate, and a loving memory to those of us remembering our own fathers on this day.

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@jtaby

1 year

There are at least 2 people who chose to work at humane that I trust and respect, and it’s a little upsetting because it prevents me from being the snarky bitch who likes drama that I sometimes want to be.

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@jtaby

2 years

The intersection of AI research with product & UX design feels like the most exciting place to be in software today.

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@jtaby

1 year

Popular opinion: Posting photos of your cars with “thank you X” is distasteful and classless

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@jtaby

3 years

@ChristianSelig I love monodraw so much

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@jtaby

2 years

Yesterday, unprompted, and out of the blue, my 18 month old blurted out for the first time “there’s no more” while handing me back his plate when he finished eating, and no fam it had me wrecked. His biggest word before was “moar!!!” Been waiting to talk to him for…ever.

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@jtaby

1 year

Officially launched our first Composable Architecture feature and our first interactive SwiftUI feature! Rebuilt our Adjustments tool from the ground up as a self contained module. Very satisfying project.

Darkroom

@usedarkroom

1 year

Quality-of-life update today: When selecting masks, you now get a preview of the mask to make it easier to navigate between them on the same photo. macOS Adjustments tool is also redesigned to give you in-line selection access for masks with previews.

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@jtaby

2 years

I just fixed our old dryer which broke down and stopped spinning and I’m so so proud of myself y’all. I’m not very handy, but been trying to push myself. Fixed whole thing for $25 instead of getting a new system or hiring someone to come fix it.

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@jtaby

1 year

“NameDrop” is such a great name omg

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@jtaby

2 years

How did I do, boys?

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2 years

2019 vs 2022. There’s always a leap of faith halfway through a painting where it looks awful until the detail phase and you connect everything together. Super fun.

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@jtaby

1 year

So dope

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@jtaby

2 years

Showing the app paywall at every single launch of the app feels so user-hostile to me. Has there been an app that implemented this strategy at scale while maintaining user sentiment and healthy conversion and retention? I can’t imagine how it could.

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@jtaby

1 year

biggest surprise of #deepdishswift … I think this is the biggest photo library I’ve ever seen? Likely the largest photo library ever loaded into Darkroom? What an absolute unit

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