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Darryl Bayliss

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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Buildhorn will launch on Product Hunt this coming Sunday. 📣 🚀 Product Hunt is a great place for products to see whether there's a market for them. I'm excited to see the response. Check it out and give your support! www.producthunt.com/products/bui... #BuildInPublic #MobileDev #Shipaton
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Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts: Know the instant your build breaks | Product Hunt
Buildhorn watches your CI pipelines and notifies you the moment a build fails, right on your Apple device. Get push notifications with custom sounds for failures and turn your home screen into a…
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Buildhorn v1.1 is out containing the following updates: - iPhone Duo Support 📱📱 - Repeated failure badges 🔴 - Easy GitHub App reinstalls 🔂 buildhorn.com/blog/2026/10... Got feedback? Let me know! #MobileDev #Shipaton
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Buildhorn v1.1 is now available
iPhone Duo support, repeated failure badges, and easy GitHub App reinstalls
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Spotted on the tube this weekend. 😀@posthog.com @kotlinlang.org
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you to Those Who Swift for featuring my Week six Shipaton post in their latest issue. It covers submitting Buildhorn to Apple and tracking down an AI introduced bug. Much appreciated! 😃 thosewhoswift.substack.com/p/those-who-... #Shipaton #BuildInPublic #MobileDev
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Those Who Swift - Issue 286
Your weekly dose of Swift!
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shipaton submission is done! ✅ 🙌 #shipaton #buildinpublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The next few evenings are dedicated to my shipaton submission form. Gonna get Buildhorn looking good! #shipaton #buildinpublic #mobiledev
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A little bit. I kept myself busy! 😀
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week's Shipaton post for Buildhorn is here! darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... This week covers: 🍎 Tips for handling 6 App Review rejections 🌐 Building buildhorn.com with Jekyll + Hallmark 📱 Testing on the iPhone Duo simulator in Xcode 27.1 #BuildInPublic #Shipaton #MobileDev
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Six App Store Rejections Later, Buildhorn Is Live: Shipaton at Week Eight
How a narrated walkthrough video got my KMP + SwiftUI CI alerts app through its sixth App Store rejection, plus building the site with Jekyll + Hallmark and testing on the iPhone Duo simulator.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don't forget to check out the website for Buildhorn, including the introductory blog post on what the v1.0 release contains! buildhorn.com #shipaton #buildinpublic #mobiledev
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Buildhorn
Buildhorn watches your CI builds and alerts you the moment they turn red.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great news to share! Buildhorn is approved and live on the App Store. 🎉 🙌 Download it now and get setup to hear when your GitHub Actions are failing whilst away from the laptop! ❌ Super happy to see this go live! 😀 apps.apple.com/us/app/build... #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts App - App Store
Download Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts by Daz Software on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Buildhorn looking 🔥 on the iPhone Duo simulator. 😎 #shipaton #buildinpublic #mobiledev
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Week 7 of @revenuecat.com's Shipaton blog post is here: darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... - Worked through App Review rejections & added a demo mode - Gave a lightning talk @ramenclub.bsky.social's Shipaton meetup - Added Split View support ahead of the iPhone Duo #shipaton #buildinpublic
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App Review Rejections, Lightning Talks, and Split Views: Shipaton at Week Seven
Week seven of Shipaton marked multiple App Review rejections and giving a lightning talk!
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you! 😀
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'll be @ramenclub.bsky.social on Wednesday evening to give a lightning talk about Buildhorn and how it helps developers keep on top of build failures. 🍜 🚢 ⚡️ Excited to share it with people and get feedback. Hope to see you there! 😀 #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week's post for @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon talks about submitting the app to Apple! Also chasing down an AI written bug affecting how quickly the widgets were updated, and creating the app screenshots. darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... Enjoy! #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Buildhorn Is Submitted to Apple for Shipaton 2026: Week Six
I’m at the six week mark working on Shipaton 2026: Buildhorn has been submitted to Apple!
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Buildhorn is waiting for review! 🤞 #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This week's post building Buildhorn for @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon is here! This weeks post: - Integrating product analytics using @posthog.com - Tracking down UI / data syncing bugs - Fixing a backend push notification bug darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... #Shipaton #BuildInPublic
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I’m Building for Shipaton 2026: Five weeks In
I’m at the five week mark working on Shipaton 2026: I am testing Building before submitting to the App Store, I found some issues.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you @androidweekly.bsky.social for sharing my quick tips on how to get Kotlin Multiplatform building on Xcode Cloud in the latest issue! 💯🎉🙌 #BuildInPublic #Shipaton #MobileDev
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Here's a bonus post about an early problem I ran into on Xcode Cloud using Kotlin Multiplatform with Buildhorn and the solution I found. ☁️ darrylbayliss.net/how-to-build... Hope you enjoy! #Shipaton #BuildInPublic MobileDev
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How to build a KMP Library using Xcode Cloud
As part of my shipaton submission I had an issue building on Xcode Cloud. Here is how I solved it. 💡
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you. 😀
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's week four building for @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon! Here is this weeks update. Highlights include: Setting up Firebase Crashlytics 🐛 Cleaning up the Koin DI modules 🧹 Configuring App Store Connect subscriptions 💰 darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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I’m Building for Shipaton 2026: Four weeks in!
I’m at the four week mark working on Shipaton 2026: My RevenueCat Paywall is hooked up to App Store Connect & tested, operationalising the app is coming along and I have a rough website
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm looking to make those failures a little more obvious so they can be fixed quicker. 😀 Is there anything you think could make this better?
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thank you! 🤩
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Another cool thing added to Buildhorn, a confetti animation when you connect your GitHub account to reward onboarding progress! 🎊 I like when apps take the effort to add small touches like this. It makes the experience feel more polished. #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's a sneak peek of how the sound selection is working and what sounds you can choose to receive in your failure notifications. 📢 Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This week's post covers: 🔊 Giving Buildhorn character via notification payloads, animations, and custom sounds ⚙️ Optimising the cloud functions to make sure Buildhorn always has the latest information about repos 👀 Detailing my QA process as I use AI to help solve issues and polish the app.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Its week three building for @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon and here are my latest updates about Buildhorn, the app that lets you know the second your CI build fails! ❌ darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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I’m Building for Shipaton 2026: Three Weeks In
Three weeks into Shipaton 2026: The initial features for v1.0 are set up. Now it’s time to clean up and polish 🧽
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Love seeing apps with great animations. ♥️
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The 1st external TestFlight for Buildhorn is available! 🛫 Looking for honest feedback about the onboarding, main app screens and the app widgets. 🙏 Sign up over at: testflight.apple.com/join/mFzx7F7P #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Join the Buildhorn beta
Available on iOS
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You can also follow how I'm getting on with Shipaton via @hackernoon.com. Thanks for publishing my posts! #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is one of the features I like best about the plugin so far. 👍
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here's a sneak peek of the app onboarding flow / home screen. 👀 #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two weeks into @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon and I have a working end to end app! 💯🚀 Here's a new post about its current state, the challenges I'm coming across, and the tools in use as part of my submission. darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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I’m Building for Shipaton 2026: Two Weeks In
Two weeks into Shipaton 2026: The Kotlin Multiplatform app is set up and speaking to Firebase. Here are some of the tools helping me along the way
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you @androidweekly.bsky.social for sharing my build plan for Shipaton 2026 in their latest newsletter. Much appreciated! 😀 #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'll be joining @revenuecat.com's Shipaton hackathon to build an App showing CI build status at a glance! Check out my latest blog post about how I plan to build it: darrylbayliss.net/im-building-... Aiming to write update posts on progress. Keep an eye out! #Shipaton #MobileDev #BuildInPublic
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I’m Building for Shipaton 2026
Kicking off Shipaton 2026: building a Kotlin Multiplatform app that alerts developers to GitHub CI build status via widgets, backed by Firebase and RevenueCat.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thank you to the Jetpack Compose team and Novoda for organising another wonderful evening! #Android #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The evening ended with an AMA from the team taking questions from the audience about building the Jetpack Compose APIs, past decisions and future plans. #Android #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our hosts were the Jetpack Compose team themselves where we received a flying history of how Jetpack Compose came to be. Including how multiple teams at Google were working to provide a simpler approach to UI and came together to build the APIs we know today! #Android #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Had a great time joining @developers.google.com's celebration of 5 years of Jetpack Compose in London at the latest Londroid meetup! #Android #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Main challenge was attaching the service account to the GKE cluster. Made a mistake first time round by not attaching on creation, had to tear the cluster down and recreate to do it!
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Having done the traditional exam before, this format felt far closer to how people actually learn and apply new skills day to day. I'll be recertifying this way going forward. #Google #Agents #Kubernetes
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I also refreshed my GKE skills by standing up a working Kubernetes cluster, deploying nodes, and setting up IAM roles to give a service account secure, scoped access to the cluster. ☸️ #Google #Agents #Kubernetes
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I built a custom search multi-agent using the Agent Development Kit (ADK), wired it to a custom data source to answer questions on a specific topic, and deployed it securely to a live environment with Agent Runtime. 🤖 docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enter... #ADK #Agents #Kubernetes
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Agent Runtime  |  Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform  |  Google Cloud Documentation
Learn about Agent Runtime, a set of services that enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale AI agents in production.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I tried something a little different this time and used Google Skills, which lets you learn topics hands-on and validate each one with a "challenge lab" that counts toward recertification. www.skills.google #Google #Agents #Kubernetes
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Google Skills
Learn and earn with Google Skills, a platform that provides free training and certifications for Google Cloud partners and beginners. Explore now.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I've recertified as a Professional Google Cloud Architect for another year! 🎓 ☁️ www.credly.com/badges/330d5... #Google #Agents #Kubernetes
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Professional Cloud Architect Certification was issued by Google Cloud to Darryl Bayliss.
Professional Cloud Architects enable organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud, they design, develop, and manage…
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I highly recommend reading the whitepaper in the Day 1 section. Its helping me to understand a lot of the terminology I've heard but often not fully understood what it means. www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-t... #AI #Agents #Learning
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The New SDLC With Vibe Coding
Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Came across this free five day AI agents course from @developers.google.com & @kaggle.com Finding it useful to understand where the agents conversation is heading. www.kaggle.com/competitions... #AI #Agents #Learning
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5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course With Google
June 15 - 19, 2026
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thank you! 👍
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you to Tristram Bates, @colabug.bsky.social, Daniele Galluccio, and Michael Aubert for giving their time to share their thoughts. Thanks also to Novoda & RecWorks for organising an interesting evening! #MobileDev #Leadership #AI
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Darryl Bayliss @darrylbayliss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🤔 The conversation focused on AI empowering developers but I couldn't help notice little discussion on how AI supports end users. I hope one day this changes so AI becomes a acquisition / revenue driver for businesses and not just an efficiency tool. #MobileDev #Leadership #AI
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