Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Today I had a presentation for a small gathering about what tools we use as iOS developers. I mentioned that if somebody finds it interesting I am always looking for people to help me with projects. I was then asked why I don’t use AI for that. Bitch, because I want to give jobs to people. 120
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It was a blast. I was rushing, as I always do, so there are definitely places to improve, but overall I’m happy with how it went. I had 30 minutes to deliver it, but would appreciate closer to an hour. 120
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tomorrow! Super excited, the keynote is polished and prepared and I genuinely feel like its gonna go great. Can’t wait to be there, but also can’t wait to have it be over so I can focus on other stuff 🙂 110
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How can somebody actually believe this. These people are seriously insane. 020
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I need a new phone. When I think about it tho, I also need an iPad. And my Kindle is also dead. Is this my sign to get the Duo? 310
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was super bored today, so I relabeled all the jars on our spice rack. I’m not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin. 120
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'll always remember the time when I wanted to implement an address search in an app so I tried to embed a json with every street name in the US straight to the app bundle. Those were the days. 110
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t know if this is new in 27 or not, but the line showing the current time/position in the calendar is awesome. Either its new or I never noticed, but I’m pleasantly surprised. 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am starting the 4th season of Sopranos and wow, I hope they kill off Meadow. 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Shopify "we will migrate from RN to native because we can just write it once and then let AI generate the other platform": 0 Every sane person in tech: 2 110
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Making example apps for open source libraries is super difficult to me, because you really have to think about how you want to explain a somewhat non-trivial problems in as-easy-as-possible manner while making sure the example makes sense. 110
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I requested the iOS 27 update, but instead my phone started downloading 26.7 at which point it locked me in a state where I have to install it before it allows me to update to 27. Great start, not gonna lie 😁 100
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The reason AI companies are calling for slowing down development is because they need an escape hatch for why they are not profitable. They need legislation so that they can tell investors "you see, if we could have done what we wanted, the $1 trillion would already be paid back to you, but alas..." 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I just had something I needed to iron out with our internet provider and the person on the other side was super sweet and helpful, but I had to get through their AI voice assistant first before they allowed me to speak to a real person, and now I understand how my grandma feels about self checkout. 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I had the first trial run today and it went surprisingly well. I need to polish the slides and try to put a little bit more emphasis on some key points now, but I thinks it’s headed in the right direction. 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know it’s super environmentally unfriendly and I do feel bad when I do it, but boy do I read so many more articles when I print them out. 100
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Steve would personally strangle the person who came up with the idea to make Keynote themes a paid feature 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Nothing from what he’s saying happened. Imagine if Biden did this, they would try to impeach him. If it was Obama, Fox News would say he was one of the pilots. But when the current preSSident does it, its not even news with how common this behavior became. 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Not using LLMs today is gonna be such a market advantage in a few years lol 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I hate when you see an article title which sounds super interesting, start reading and realize it's just another AI slop bullshit. aleahim.com/blog/swiftui...aleahim.comSwiftUI Is One Graph, Over 40+ Years of EngineeringSwiftUI is the thin graph sitting above 40+ years of engineering. Measured against the real framework and read against Apple's own patent, it is a single demand-driven graph, and the least remarkable ... 011
Reposted by Dominik GrodlTijs Teulings 🦑 @tijs.org · 03/09/2026If you have a Mac you can just use the passwords app. It’s perfectly fine now. It has the family sharing, the one time token. It works. You don’t need an extra app for this never mind paying a subscription fee. Save that money and donate it to whatever is your local version of the ACLU instead. 162
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Next month I'll be speaking at App & Tell in Prague about the challenges of SwiftUI navigation and how we handle it at scale. So if you have time (and speak Czech, sorry, nothing I can do about that), join us! flow.etnetera.cz/cs/events/ap...flow.etnetera.czApp & Tell #002App & Tell is a Prague meetup for mobile developers, run by Etnetera Flow. Talks, demos and real projects from people who build apps. 140
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of the first things happening after Ternus becomes CEO being them caving to Trump really tells you something. 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I’m getting amazed by how many decisions are being made completely on random. I first realized that when I used to work on political campaigns/strategy in uni, but disregarded it as politicians being politicians. But now, interacting with people doing decisions in tech, it turns out its the same. 121
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I see overwhelmingly positive stuff about the GTA 6 material we got yesterday, but I don't share that view. Granted, the graphics look awesome, but so much of it looks like those fake "new GTA" scam games of the past. The physics looks horrible, as well as the weapon picker. 110
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My MacBook was super slow today and I was constanly getting the memory popup. Then I looked and it was reporting 0 MB of memory used and 133 GB of swap. The f 💀 100
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am very firmly planted in my "base model Apple devices" era. But now I probably need to get new AirPods and wondering whether the ANC version makes sense or if the base is enough. Keep in mind I have Maxes to work with, so there are just for walks, sports etc. 100
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026topPaddingIfOpaqueNavigationBar might be one of the weirdest View extension I ever wrote. 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Holy shit trying to implement a sheet with medium detent that should only expand to a large detent when the content inside requires scrolling is apparently above whatever my brain is capable of achieving. 100
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I love how Trump think he knows more about the implications of a no-deal with Canada than Carney, the literal king of macroeconomy. I firmly believe there isn't a single person inside the current US admin who is even a little close to him. 020
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This and Omarchy being technologically completely fucked is the legacy he will die with. 020
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Being unable to resolve packages because GitHub is unresponsive is peak vibecode-era fuckup. 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The yearly yearning to learn Haskell is here again and I am scared guys. 1151
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It started with them requiring me to sign in to Teams every 24 hours. Then they added pin codes, disallowed copy-paste and screenshots. Now they require that links can only be opened using Microsoft Edge. I am sorry, but I will no longer be reachable on my phone :) 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Macros shouldn’t be used in places where a language/stdlib feature would work. Here, I said it. 000
Reposted by Dominik GrodlT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world. 13872842043
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Listening to the Steve Jobs books again and I can’t stop thinking about how much Jony Ive fumbled his legacy with his recent work. 030
Reposted by Dominik GrodlDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication. 321024230
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026First pitch, so I hope I used the correct topic/tags etc. 🙏 forums.swift.org/t/default-im...forums.swift.orgDefault implementation of Hashable for AnyObjectHello friends, I'd like to pitch a very small, but IMHO a very useful change when it comes to conforming AnyObjects to Hashable. Motivation Nowadays it is common to conform classes to Hashable when ... 120
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Honestly, who can tell me what is the point of having AI do something completely deterministic? What is the upside here? You can create a deterministic tool which will always do what it’s supposed to do or you can use AI and hope it doesn’t f up. Who in their right mind would choose the latter? 000
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Trying to add an account to Firebase now results in being redirected to a 400 page. Not 404 or 500, which sometimes happens to all of us, a 400. Who's willing to bet that the change that caused it was vibe coded by someone who, at the same time, was arguing online how productive they now are? 110
Reposted by Dominik GrodlBenjamin is ... making ottr @benjaminlistwon.com · 28/07/2026Going to test out the new shirt at the coffee shop. Thanks @wigu.org 25611
Reposted by Dominik GrodlPINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026#ArrestTrump #TrumpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrials 391174549
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have an a magic keyboard without TouchID. When using an external display, my MacBook sits on my left side. I was always reaching to use TouchID on the built in keyboard with my right hand. Only today it occurred to me I can also just add my left hand finger. Is this what being old feels like? 010
Dominik Grodl @grodld.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My most gen z trait is that I am listening to TV shows while working. 110
