iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The irony of soberly banging out code on a company-supplied $3,200 MacBook Pro while listening to rap about living in the hood, high, and trying to make it out via selling drugs

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Jiji. I named him after the cat in Kiki’s Delivery Service from Studio Ghibli!

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

All this short-form blogging platform hopping is making me use the good old days of Twitter before it got acquired. We had it so good and didn’t even know it

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I’m confused about “FinTech Engineer”. I’m a Software Engineer for a FinTech company… does that count 🤔

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

At work, I’ve seen Copilot really improve my productivity when it comes to unit tests. I manually write some scaffolding that establishes a very simple testing pattern — then tab my way to victory in VSCode. For feature work, I find it too frustrating to work with :(

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Now that I’m more experienced at my company, I’ve had junior engineers reach out to me for help. It’s an honor, but it has made me realize that I need to improve my explanation and pair programming skills. Particularly getting better at guiding them to answers better, as opposed to doing it for them

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Threads didn’t seem to bring a lot of iOS folk together. I’m hoping Bluesky is different!

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Weirdest bug I’ve encountered to date: I was trying to figure out why a UI test of ours didn’t catch a bug it should have. Turns out there seems to be differing behavior in the view’s lifecycle when running the XCUITest vs going through the flow manually. Has anyone experienced this? #iosDev

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

These vibrations are ran through a model that also uses the GPS’s last known location and train schedule to determine where you are underground with a 90% accuracy. This is one of the most impressive features I’ve read about in mobile engineering. Amazing

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

After increasing performance on some image manipulation I was doing for a macOS app by refactoring from NSImage to CoreImage.. I now have the inspiration to add filtering options through the CoreImage’s filter catalog. Was it asked of me? Absolutely not. Do I want do it? Sorta

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The starter pack thing is a killer idea. Both the people that follow me and that I follow are increasingly related to Apple platform development — I’m patiently waiting for all of the nerdy content to flood my feed 🤓

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

At an iOS meetup yesterday I was talking to an engineer who worked at a well known camera app company. They mentioned that when a majority of their image processing team left, the company was sorta screwed. People argue of being a generalist vs specialist — but the reality is that both are great.

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Yeah. They use React Native for web also! I learned this through @pragmaticengineer.com. It’ll be interesting to see how it grows and if they encounter any pitfalls. But so far so good! github.com/bluesky-soci...

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GitHub - bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Low key, this may be the smoothest React Native app I’ve ever used. My hats off to the Bluesky team

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Did you turn it on and off?

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

What was even better was when I had a process that used NSImage for some editing that was slow, and when I asked it to refactor the functions to use CoreImage, it worked like a charm. Regardless, you typically have to be quite specific in what you ask for. It’s like becoming good at googling again

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

LLMs are truly a massive time saver. My brother reached out to make him a macOS app that splits and merges images in a certain sequence. Rather than looking at the docs for NSSavePanel, GPT4o just spits out a function that requires minimal modifications.

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Talked to someone at a family function that didn’t know what ChatGPT was 😌

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Things that bring me peace. My Notes organization 😌

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

React Native falls into the 2nd category. It can also target web, meaning that the same code (more or less) can be used for Android, iOS, and a web app. Each methodology has its pros, cons, nuances, etc.

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

It’s a SDK (software development kit) to build apps. To build a mobile app, there are two common approaches: 1. Building it “natively”. So using a first party SDK provided by the developer of the OS. 2. Building it “cross-platform”. So using a third party SDK that targets both Android and iOS.

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

When I first started working with Swift, I found myself unwrapping with if-let and almost avoiding guard-let statements. Now I live with a completely different mindset and use guard-let so much more. Especially when dealing with functions that return Result enums

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Juan @juan-chi.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

It behaves really snappy and nice on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. If I recall correctly, it’s also built with Expo + React Native — which in my experience doesn’t usually have this level of snappiness and polish! Props to them.

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