Thank you so much, I genuinely try. :P

I'll answer both this ain't amateur hour.

• No other programming projects to be honest, a few internal tools to help me answer messages/comments faster but that's basically an extension of Apollo. :P I really like woodworking though and do some of that on the side.
• Oh wow, so many apps I can't live without. In no order and just a few off the top of my head, Alfred, Karabiner Elements, Sketch, Xcode, Spotify, Tweetbot, Visual Studio Code

Yeah, every penny of every dollar, I ain't making a cent today.

It's really not that bad to be honest, when you list it all like that it does sound like it, but I can assure you it isn't. :P Especially if you have other language experience, Xcode and Objective-C were my first IDE/language so if my dumb ass can do it I'm sure you'll be fine. :P

For instance the APIs are super well documented, not only by Apple but by just a myriad of tutorials as well as an active StackOverflow as well as the r/iOSProgramming subreddit. Xcode's a little daunting, but compared to most IDEs I don't find it too bad, you can honestly ignore alomst everything except the editor and the run/compile button, and slowly add more things in as you get comfortable to make it more streamlined. Swift as a language is pretty darn easy too, and very well documented, it removes a lot of the cruft Objective-C had (no knock on Objective-C, still love it), though optionals can be a bit to wrap your head around.

I learned just by reading an old Objective-C book in high school haha, re-reading it until it made more sense. Honestly my best advice though would just be to start building something, even super small, as soon as you can, found getting my hands dirty to help me learn 100x faster than just reading on its own.

To be honest I can't think of many. I must just be super lucky, maybe it's because most people post through the r/apolloapp subreddit and realize that it's public and if their idea is really stupid/offensive people will downvote it. Or maybe the really really dumb ones are downvoted and I don't see them too often. :P

Some silly requests are based around "I just moved from the official app, I love your app now but wish you did this thing the exact same way the official app does" and it's like, that's totally fair, that's how they expect it to be done, but most of the time it just takes a little settling in to be maybe like "Oh actually I like this better nvm".

Some things like custom vote icons per subreddit give me pause, because… some aren't done well to be blunt, and it feels scary to inject the kinda weird looking ones into the app because I've worked really hard to make it look clean.

Hahahaha, you had me in the first half. I've felt the same way about a lot of apps and wanted to create a similar experience.

It's totally okay, if you really feel that strongly go for a year and donate another time, but even if it's not monetary satisfaction I'm getting today personally there's a lot of satisfaction in knowing animals will be doing well.

Thank you so much though, I'd love to do more social apps, but things like Twitter are super well covered by Tweetbot and Twitterific though. You're the best.

It was really awesome, it's so amazing being surrounded by so many super smart people, like the attitude is very infectious. That's almost why I think it's a little bizarre they don't let Apple employees work on apps in their spare time, because you're just super motivated to do cool stuff.

And yeah I'd say so, working on a team helps a lot in general because you're accountable to people right beside you rather than just yourself.

Excellent! WWDC really invigorated me with the whole ceremonial splitting off to iPadOS. Have a bunch of requests for smaller things like better crossposting support as well as all the iOS 13 changes and stuff that's taking up a bit more time than I'd like right now though, but once I have those sorted it should be 100% iPad time.

Probably not as many as I should haha. I follow Dave Verwer's iOS Dev Weekly, I really like John Sundell's blog, and I watch a bunch of the WWDC videos. Following some really smart iOS devs on Twitter helps a lot too because they often give some awesome insights.

It's definitely not the gold rush era where you could build a fart app over the weekend, release it Monday and be ready for early retirement by Friday. The App Store right now is dominated by large companies like Facebook, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, etc. with billions of dollars so I find it's a lot harder for people to understand paying for stuff anymore haha, because I think they almost subconsciously assume every app is by one of the big companies (which I don't blame them for, it mostly is). So it's harder for indies to thrive when there's such an expectation of free.

But if you're honest and open with your users and provide something they like I definitely think there's still very much a way to carve out a nice niche. :)

I really like going for little walks, find it clears my head and helps me see problems differently. It's like a mini version of "go to sleep and when you wake up the solution will probably be obvious".

Hahahaha, I can interpret this in a few ways I think given that Apollo's beta period felt like 50 years. But I'd also love to imagine the Apollo astronauts even have any idea what my app is, as unlikely as that is :P

Oh man. Anything haha, I find it very easy to get addicted to games so while I'm sure I'd love it I don't spend any time on the online games that can take up a lot of time, but I love campaign style games with a story that I can sit down and pick up randomly.

My two favorite games from the last little while were definitely Horizon Zero Dawn and Hollow Knight. Blew me away. Also really liked Life is Strange.

I fell over a lot as a young child and I think it affected my brain

You're a great person

I'd love to do it down the road. Apple seemed very clear that you want a good iPad app foundation before embarking on that journey so I want to cross that bridge first though.

Thank you so much. :D I have two, a black one named Ruby and an orange one named Hugo. Hugo's older by about 2 years. They're 2 and 4. :) https://i.imgur.com/FXrZIZU.jpg

Just commented there, geez that's an aggressive tone. But in short those are caching domains he mentions so I don't have to hit Imgur's expensive API a billon times, and Firebase's really clear about what they collect, and nothing seems out of place to me, everything's anonymized, they don't track IP addresses, and Apollo doesn't collect anything individually. Furthermore the official Reddit app also uses Crashlytics, it's a pretty standard piece of crash reporting software. I commented for some clarification, if there's something weird going on I'll happily rip it out of Apollo.

Oo, good question. We got Tweetbot, Instagram, YouTube, Sketch Mirror, Wunderlist, PCalc, Deliveries, Amazon, Spotify, Reeder, 1Password and Alto's Odyssey.

Super. Annoying. Agreed, yeah I will aadd that.

Thank you so much. I'd love to say people would just have to see some cute animals and they'd be helpless not to want to help them, but there's also some gross people out there who abuse them so who knows.

That's a really good question and I kinda feel like an idiot because I've never pondered that for some reason. Hmm. Maybe back at Apple, it was really awesome there.

Right now probably r/WhatCouldGoWrong, something so satisfying about the stupidity

Design definitely. Some design you can only figure out by building it out and figuring out it's a terrible idea haha, but far and away the biggest time sink for me is always figuring out how to design something in a way I like it. Most of that is making the flow nice, not visuals. But I did have a bunch of functionality I knew I wanted to have, so that played into the design too obviously.

It's 99% Swift.

My advice would be to jump in and get your hands dirty, building things is the most fun and effective way to learn in my experience. And build something you yourself would like, it really helps a lot with motivation and wanting to finish it.

Timing wise I don't think I'll be able to get one out for today/very soon unfortunately, but I do have plans for one!And And thank you so much for the kind words :)

Sorry didn't mean to not answer this. I'd love to one day if the time/opportunity presents itself, but currently I just have no time to work on an entire new version of Apollo, the iOS version already takes up 110% of my time as is. :/

Love to the Android folks though, I picked up an Essential phone on Craigslist for $80 somehow and it's seriously awesome.

In 12th grade I was bored in some class I can't remember and I thought iOS development seemed really cool so I bought a book on Objective-C and just read it in class over the course of about a month and then started building some things. :)

Learned a ton from Apple, but more than anything seeing the inner working and all the smart worker bees buzzing around was just super super motivating

It is! My two cats walk across my keyboard sometimes but I hardly would count that as help, if anything's it makes it a little harder.

That's a good question. If I had to estimate I'd say by that point I had probably done 50 hours a week for 2 years so probably about 4 to 5,000 hours or so?

Oh man, yeah I'd say not only do they, but they kind of have like an in-grained culture around it. Like if tomorrow for some reason they decided not to be that way as a policy, it would not go over well because it's just kinda part of how they operate. I know a lot of people who work there who would just flat out refuse to do something they morally disagreed with, or quit. Apple's an enormous company so it's hard to do everything right, but I genuinely do think they care.

You're the best kinda person. :) Best part about Reddit is definitely the community, it's easy to get stuck on a few bad apples/communities, but as a whole it's an incredible group capable of some incredible things with incredible memes. I would it never loses the kinda indie feel it has, I love that it still kinda feels like a fledging site in the best possible way.

My username? You betcha. :D

No prob! It's basically just an alternative the official Reddit app with some different design choices.

I'd say it's kinda like a car, you might be happy with your car and wonder why ever have a different one, but then one day you might try out your friend's car and say "Whoa, I actually kinda like this more, this is fun! The seating position feels nicer, I really like the feel of the steering wheel, the sound system has a bit more punch, and the driving experience is a bit more spirited".

I really wanted to add a bunch of "nice to have" features that just really make the whole experience more pleasant. :D

Specifically there's some really nice gestures that make navigating a breeze, it's really fast, the design hopefully feels super comfortable and at home on iOS, color-coded comments for easy navigation, a really powerful and awesome media viewer for your memes and GIFs, etc.

Haha, that's a good question. I like to travel a little, went to Iceland recently but wasn't too lavish I guess. Oh I bought one of those electric skateboard thingies recently too, it's a lot of fun but I'm kinda clumsy so it's also terrifying.

Is that a thing? Sounds cool, I must be coding wrong.

1. Scratch my own itch, I wanted a Reddit app and there wasn't anything I 100% loved so I wanted to take a swing at it myself.
2. Not my decision unfortunately. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/7a4bjo/time_for_my_quarterly_inquisition_reddit_ceo_here/dp71enr/ I'm looking for ways to work around it in Apollo.

1. Don't be rigid, if users say something sucks be receptive to feedback, it's easy to fall too much in love with one of your designs. Get a lot of feedback in general, it really, really helps. But honestly when it comes down to it, yeah, ship it, most people just leave things as side projects to die.
2. Would love to! Feel free to email me sometime, me at christianselig.com

Yeah no problem!

• TestFlight Beta. If I wasn't doing this today I'd probably be submitting it tonight. :P But as it stands probably Monday. Was hoping to have it submitted for yesterday but I was going through the ol' to do list, and I added a bunch of moderator features this build and I realized I forgot to add the banned/muted pages for moderators so just gotta finish those off to be complete.
• iPad update's going really well. Still a bit of work to do though and I've been putting a lot of time into other smaller features that people have been requesting (better PMing for instance) as well as iOS 13 changes so not as much time as I'd like to work on it lately but still have done a bunch.

Fixing bugs this far out from the release is kinda tricky because it's like hitting a moving target. Having done it in the past and then the bug you just fixed was actually an Apple bug they fixed in the next beta… not too fun

I think it's super cool and love it. I think it'll be a year before it's battle-tested enough for my liking, and then maybe I'll start playing around with it then. It's hard because it requires iOS 13 so I'd have to drop support for everything before that in order to use it :/

Thank you so much. That was me haha, ran out of money to pay a designer so whipped something up myself, very flattered you like it. :P

Solid YAH

Happy belated. :D

Oh that's an easy one, do some side projects. I found at least with my degree it was super easy to graduate with the degree and some theoretical knowledge of programming but nothing concrete to show for it. Build some cool things you can show off to potential interviewers, they love that stuff. :)

As in your other half is having difficulties with school and missing working at Apple? That's a tough one, I was not great at school either and graduated with not a lot of room to spare. :P I might not be the best one to offer advice, but I guess it depends on why they're there. If they're back at school because they have a passion for learning and want to get as much out of it as they can, I'd say just remember whey they're there, it's temporary, and they'll come out the other side improved and better rounded. If they're there for other reasons, well just grit your teeth and get through with it, it'll be over soon. :P

Thanks for the kind words. :) It definitely does.

Thank you so much <3 <3 <3

The beta for that's hopefully going out Monday, I just basically completely finished that the other day, so you're in luck. :D

Apollo's gave me the freedom to work from home and just feel a lot freer in life, meet some really cool people, and learn a ton. I honestly can't list all the amazing things it's done for me, I feel so fortunate. The only negative is that I don't have coworkers so it can be kinda lonely at times, missing hanging out with colleagues.

That's very high praise too, thank you so much. <3

If you put a modicum of effort into it you should be fine :P Your comment is more than fine for instance

Haha yeah it's a bit to contend with at first for sure. Hopefully I don't think there's anything that makes it too difficult to pick up, unless she has an aptitude for triggering gestures accidentally, I should add an option to disable those. There's also an option in the share sheet once you download Apollo to add an "Open in Apollo" option so that might help her some too with being able to funnel the links into Apollo at least.

I'd love to one day if I had more time, but learning all the Android development stuff and then rebuilding it effectively from scratch for Android would take a massive amount of time I don't have time for right now, haha

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I don't know why

Wow, it looks super slick. Very fast too, nicely done!

Reddit's honestly been great, they don't seem threatened (nor should they, their app dwarfs mine in downloads haha), and they've even been very receptive to questions. The initial approval process wasn't anything more than filling out a form and waiting to hear back to be honest, which even that didn't take too long. Though that was years back now so I'm not sure about current processes. No payment split currently as they haven't requested anything like that, but if they deem that necessary or would like to discuss it I'm more than open to it!

Scaling wasn't too bad, basically all iOS development stuff is done on the user's device so scaling was kind of… automatic? Distribution is through the App Store obviously too which I don't have to worry about. I have some server side stuff but it's paid so that I don't have to lose sleep about it.

Reddit videos are weird. iOS handles HLS natively so it's not too much to get playing, but beyond that is a little tricky. I haven't done enough with it to be able to offer much advice unfortunately haha.

Haven't met a ton of other people in a professional sense, but made some cool friends along the way. Not sure how that might change haha.

Oh man, I'm not musical enough to answer that well, haha. Like I love music but I'm more of a one-off song listener rather than an album guy. But some of the few albums I listen do repeatedly in their entirety are probably from Muse, Metric, and Eminem.

Yeah I'll make it so r/all filters apply to r/popular as well, would only make sense to be honest.

Haha yeah, nothing too original, just scratching my own itch kinda thing. :P

Oh man that's an easy one, ability to set third party apps as the default action. So many people ask how they can make Reddit links open automatically in Apollo. I have a utility in the share sheet that helps, but the fact that there's no way to do it automatically is a bummer.

Trans rights ftw

I honestly have no clue. I have cats right now because I'm kinda young and live in an apartment and my life's a little all over the place so I'm not sure I could provide the environment a dog requires, they're a lot of work! Cats are a little less maintenance, they probably have their lives together better than I do.

But my building is dog friendly so whenever I see one of my neighbors' dogs I freak out because I love them. Hope to get one some day. :D

I'd rather not get into a specific figure because people like know my account IRL and I'm kind of a private person but it's definitely comfortable, I'm not worried about needing a second job or feeling stupid for turning down an offer from another company. People are awesome and generous in supporting my work so I'm very fortunate, and I love doing the job so I can't really complain whatsoever. :)

I really want to play around with the PS4 controller support for some reason

I'm a reasonable guy, it's limited to 4 of those a day, just don't go overboard.

In all honestly, none? Apollo tracks (through Firebase) some anonymized info that helps me make better/more informed development decision (crash statistics, what percentage of users use light mode vs dark mode, etc.), but nothing weird. There's more info in the privacy policy which I tried to make pretty easy to read: https://apolloapp.io/privacy

It basically went

I need an app name > Reddit is space themed > my app helps you browse something that is space themed > spaceships help you browse/explore space > spaceship name needed > Apollo is an awesome spaceship name

Haha, Hugo the orange one loves those "Da Bird" things, like the feather on a string on a pole. Ruby the black one doesn't care too much about those, her favorite toy far and away is a cheap wooden dowel from Canadian Tire that I run along the floor/couch and she tries to murder

Yeah unfortunately at the moment, I'm just one guy and porting it to different platforms is a ton of work that I don't have time for currently :(

Full time, the interest in it was pretty high right from the get-go so I hunkered down and spent a few years on it haha. And yeah absolutely, people are very kind and generous thankfully so I'm fortunate that I can work on it full time. :)

Thank you! :D And I'd love that, working on Apollo is a dream, I legitimately love my job and hope I never have to stop. After 4 years I legitimately don't feel any less invigorated.

Those Ray Bans?

Hahaha that's amazing. And maybe some day but not currently, Apollo's so fulfilling to build at the moment that I'm in no rush to explore other things haha. Thank you! :)

Thank you so much, RIP Alien Blue

Hahaha, a little bad to be honest. :P

I really hope you'll love it, and in the event you don't I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks for being an awesome cat dad too. :)

And I completely understand, it means a lot you just downloaded it and commented, no pressure for more whatsoever. Thanks for being awesome. :)

Haha, be selfish. :P No seriously, find something you want yourself, and build it, it makes it so much easier to stick through with it if you yourself really want it. :P

Hey man! Hope all is well. It's honestly nothing too hard, you definitely seem to have the passion for it and I'd say that's the biggest part of it. Just find something you think would be cool to build, and build it. It doesn't have to be something super complex, but companies just love candidates who have built things they can show off, I think you'll do really well that way. If you don't know how to get started building things, that's not very hard either, there's tons of beginner tutorials out there on the basics, really anything will do. Start building something small like a "hello world" app, maybe then a to do list app, and just keep building your way up. :)

Different, not sure about better. Depends on what you value, I'm a fan of the apps on iOS more than the apps on Android, but Android gives you a lot more freedom to change things and tinker, which you may value more.

Well I mean that's an employee, yeah. I went through employee training, had an employee badge, had employee benefits. :P As for why I say it honestly people tend to find it interesting.

Thanks for the kind words, that means a lot coming from an Alien Blue person, miss that app.

Currently just a 1 man show!

Hahahaha. The next big one will definitely be the iPad app. :) I honestly didn't plan that, beautiful coincidence.

At the top of the Posts tab is a drop down menu arrow thingy, you can tap on that and type in a subreddit. If he's looking to like explore and find new subreddits he's never seen before unfortunately Apollo's a little lacking there, I'd go to like r/all or r/popular (hit the arrow in the top left to go to the list) and check out what subs posts are being submitted from

Chocolate

That's a really interesting question. Like websites aren't normally a thing that last 10+ years but it seems like that's changed. Honestly I hope not a ton has changed (at least on a fundamental level), I like where they're at now.

I hope that they open up the Chat API in less than 10 years.

I don't know if it's possible, is it? There might be some online services that could do remote work for you, but honestly I'd go find a cheap used Mac mini on Craigslist or whatever, can probably find one for like $100 and should work fine, you could plug it into any monitor/mouse/keyboard etc.

Favorite book, that's a good question. I can't choose just one off the top of my head and it'd probably change if you asked me tomorrow, but Ender's Game (even if the author's a twit) and Hitchhiker's Guide were both amazing.

iOS and Android just have fundamentally different designs. Apple's written a small bible on their design philosophies, and Android/Google have a similar thing for their "Material Design". I think an app built for each platform should cater to the platform probably and adhere to the design that users expect, and that was really my goal for Apollo.

Don't have the time currently to commit to Android unfortunately

You're amazing. Probably when I was like 6, my grandmother had this dog named Missie and it was trying to get at something under a small log, so I picked up the log and she was able to get whatever she was looking for, and she looked so thankful and was so nice to me after that, I think that's when I really first realized how amazing animals are.

Wait what, what's Marrowstone? I'm drawing a blank here friendo.

Haha, it's one of those things where I think I'd be stupid if I didn't, so honestly it seems kinda obvious to me. Like you're building an app based on a community platform, use the dang platform to your advantage. It was very easy to see early on how much it was shaping Apollo for the better, and it just makes development a lot more fun.

Thank you so much for the kind words, it really means a lot to hear them, genuinely.

That's a really good question, Alien Blue's like basically dead isn't it? I'd have to go out and look, I haven't really kept tabs on the other apps currently, but I always hear great things about Narwhal. Slide too.

2 and 4 :)

Like if they don't get into a SV job they're screwed? That's probably a little strong but it definitely helps, one of those things on a resume that definitely opens a lot of doors. Waterloo is like the Canadian capital of engineering students haha, it's always funny too when people call that east and my "east" is a 24 hour drive east of there. :P

My experience at Apple was really awesome yeah, I think it prepared me about as much as 4 months could have yeah. Great people, made some great friends. :)

Hahaha, just take solace in the fact there IS an absolute ton of things to learn, but you absolutely don't have to learn 99% of it. :P I've programmed for a few years and I'm sure those courses would overwhelm you, carve out a niche of programming you enjoy and focus on that. :) I'll try to get to more cat pics too!

I'd say it's kinda like a car, you might be happy with your car and wonder why ever have a different one, but then one day you might try out your friend's car and say "Whoa, I actually kinda like this more, this is fun! The seating position feels nicer, I really like the feel of the steering wheel, the sound system has a bit more punch, and the driving experience is a bit more spirited".

I really wanted to add a bunch of "nice to have" features that just really make the whole experience more pleasant. :D

Thank you so much. :)

Thanks for being amazing with cats. :) I never had cats growing up (parents allergic) but I got my two when I was able to, I live in a city so it'd be really dangerous to let them out and about unfortunately, so I just try to make em really happy indoors. :)

Oh hmm. My life isn't super interesting haha, I like to kick back and relax a lot, lately I've enjoyed longboarding and some travel, oh and woodworking, but sitting back with some Netflix is always very enjoyable. :)

Get into Swift and make apps. :P

Honestly, you're a programmer already so you could probably grasp the basics in the afternoon of a weekend. Grab some beginner tutorials, download Xcode and read a tutorial on like, how to build a to do list app. I honestly bet you'd find it a lot easier than you expect! Then just keep building progressively more ambitious things. You got this. :D

Hahaha, thanks, happy to respond, people have great ideas. :D

Honestly my best resource has just been trying things out, like if I want to learn a new API, I try to get the gist of the docs or briefly read a tutorial, then just try to use it and if I get snagged on something that's when I start looking up help, I find I learn a lot faster by doing than reading. Mostly following general tutorials like "how to build a to do list app" then gradually increasing in difficulty was definitely the best way I found to learn.

I think it's all about adopting the conventions/accepted norms of the platform, so if it was Android I'd immerse myself in Material Design for a few months for instance and see how they do things differently

Thank you so much haha

Mostly spend it at my desk or couch with my laptop haha, nothing too glamorous. I'd honestly just recommend something fun that you'd personally enjoy building/using, I think it makes a big difference in showing it off to people and plain ol wanting to finish it if it's something you're excited about. :)

Wow, that's a legitimate honor. Nice taste with Focus at the bottom there too. :)

Thank you so much.

I'd take the 100 duck sized horses. Hopefully I don't have to fight them or anything because that sounds really cute to play with.

Well spam won't count anyway because I'm sure the mods would hate me and it's not really in the spirit of it, but you've generated $0.20 since I replied

I have! I have an Essential Phone and a Nexus 5, really love them both dearly, especially the Essential phone. I prefer the app ecosystem on iOS more and some of the design just feels more pleasant to me (rubber-banding when scrolling, the home-swipe gestures on Android feel a little weird), but honestly if iOS disappeared and I had to use Android I'd be fine, it's nice.

I think the whole "war" thing (not saying you specifically obviously) is silly and people should calm down and respect preferences. :P Some people get wayyyy too bent out of shape.

Naw, I think you could make the jump from being a full time sea turtle to being a programmer fairly easy, it's all just about putting the hours in. If you're willing to do that you're golden. :)

It basically went

I need an app name > Reddit is space themed > my app helps you browse something that is space themed > spaceships help you browse/explore space > spaceship name needed > Apollo is an awesome spaceship name

Thanks so much, I really do try to listen to people, I think it's made the app a lot stronger. <3

Honestly, playing around and building is the best way possible. Find an area of programming you're interested in, websites, apps, robotics, etc., read some tutorials that focus on the basics for beginners, and build some basic things with the help of some tutorials. Honestly programming's a lot easier than a lot of people make it out to be. :)

Do you have an example in particular? I'd say Apple is expensive, but in my experience they're not overpriced in the areas they compete in. For example Samsung's high end phones are just as expensive, iMacs are expensive but have a beautiful 5K screen attached, etc.

There ya go, thank you :)

Absolutely! Preventing an unnecessary influx of kittens is much preferred to having to deal with them when the time comes!

Advantages I would say would be a faster, smoother browsing experience with an improved media viewer and some really nice swipe gestures. Disadvantages would be that I'm a one man team so I can't always add in new features that Reddit adds as quick as Reddit themselves can

Really sorry to hear that, we lost our family dog a few years back and it was genuinely terrible. I'm sure the SPCA has no shortage though if you want to commemorate their memory.

If you got some screenshots of what you're talking about I'd love to see. :P It almost uses entirely stock Apple components so there shouldn't be much room to stray haha

Thank you so much, it's really nothing crazy for me to do though, pets are awesome and I think if most people were put in a position where they could do some good for them they would :D

They look super cool. They still feel a little weird to me, like I can normally pick out when an app is built in RN versus true natively, but it's such a cool platform and the stuff like Hot Reload makes me so jealous as an iOS developer, haha

I'd love to but 3 would be a little crazy for my apartment haha. Thank you so much too, Hugo and Ruby. :D

Thank you so much. Great honestly, I feel really content with life right now. :)

I'd love to if it was that simple, but the reality is it would probably be another few thousand hours to port it over to a brand new platform, and that's not something I have the time to do at the moment. :(

Was a big fan of Apple yeah and already pretty into iOS programming so applied out of the blue and got really lucky haha

Not long haha, a few years and very much dabbling, I'm in an apartment so my tools are pretty primitive, but I like building small things like dining tables that are nice to have around the house and not too difficult to make. :)

It was mostly internal stuff so nothing you'd know of, think internal tools to help stuff run smoother within Apple. Not sure if it ever got used though to be honest, haha.

I really find building things like side projects is the key to getting places, showing things off that you've created and can physically be like "I made this!" really gets people excited.

It basically went

I need an app name > Reddit is space themed > my app helps you browse something that is space themed > spaceships help you browse/explore space > spaceship name needed > Apollo is an awesome spaceship name

Thank you so much! That's such a hard question, there's so many good TV shows, probably Daredevil right now.

Thank you so much! Apple recently allowed apps to add that functionality, so I'm trying to figure out a way to do it. :D

Did you post this elsewhere? That's a gorgeous cat that I can't imagine I'd forget, thanks for being an awesome cat adopter. :D

ok

Thank you so much! Probably The Reason by Hoobastank. :P

All the money I guess? Apollo doesn't really have expenses, I guess there's server expenses that Ultra helps to cover but ehh don't worry about those today it's all good.

Risky click but very worth it. Are they both yours? They're super cute and also look a little devilish in the best possible way :P

Hahaha, I did! I wish, the beans recipe is really my go to and the only original one I have. :P I just Google everything else…

Pineapple belongs on pizza.

It's the shelter I got my cats from and they're very local so I know they're an awesome bunch.

Hmm, hopefully holding the same values and not changing a great deal, I love how indie they still feel, they're doing great stuff.

I'd love to if I had the time, but as it stands I already wish there was more time in the day for the iOS version :(

If I had more time I'd love to haha.

Oh yeah! We did $5000 last year as a community and I try to donate regularly otherwise. :)

There's a Tip Jar at the bottom of the Settings tab. And thank you for being so amazing!!!

That's a really good question, haha, I'm oddly excited for the PS4/Xbox One controller support and building that into Apollo for some reason :P

Yeah, it's too much fun not to :P

Already added in and should be shipping very soon. :) It's beautiful.

American short hair I guess would be the term, right? They're adopted from the shelter so I highly doubt they're a fancy pure breed or anything haha

It's pretty much the only color that isn't already used by Reddit themselves for like OP/moderator/admin/friend, etc. :P

Absolutely, here's the direct link, the donate button is in the top right: http://www.novascotiaspca.ca/

No, haha, I'm trying to answer as many questions as I can which means my full fledged desktop with keyboard and mouse set up is a bit faster. :P

Just wanting to scratch an itch, none of the Reddit apps did it for me 100% so I wanted to try and see what I could come up with.

Build side projects, interviewers love when you have things to show off that you've built yourself.

Oh dang. Hmm. Right now the prettiest for me is that XDR Display but I doubt I'll ever own it haha. Probably the new iPad Pros then.

Orange maybe, ocelots, Daredevil, Ender's Game, orange pineapple, and r/whatcouldgowrong

No plans currently unfortunately. :( The lifetime pricing is hard because it's… well lifetime. If anything I could see it going up eventually so consider it on sale now. :P

Really nice, had a nice breakfast with the gf before starting the thread and now sipping on an iced coffee and talking to cool people. :D

Ah the ol double comment. I can respect the hustle.

Hahaha, when I get a bigger apartment maybe, not even sure if my current landlord would allow that. :P

No, YOU are breath taking

I freaking love you!

Thank you so much :)

Pretty much the only color that isn't used by Reddit haha

An excellent question. I have no idea.

Thanks my friend

Thank you? Why are we using inflections? :P

Been practicing my naruto run all week

Probably pineapples, mushrooms, and green peppers right now.

Not currently, but maybe if I get more time.

How do they destroy the native environment exactly? Like getting out and eating birds and whatnot? That's totally fair criticism, my cats are indoor cats per the recommendation of our vet, they typically live a lot longer that way and local wildlife doesn't suffer.

Someday maybe, porting an app to a different platform takes a ton of time!

Thank you so much for commenting :)

Hahaha, a beautiful one.

Maybe someday if I had more time. :P

Yes indeed. :)

r/whatcouldgowrong at the moment.

<3 Hugo and Ruby!

Maybe :P

Your dinner sounds disgusting

You betcha.

That's the ASPCA, no? I'm Canadian, ours is a different organization, our local one to my knowledge is independently run and does great things. They're also close to my heart since I've adopted my pets from there.

My comments count, yeah :D

I trust Charlie

Hugo and Ruby. :)

no >:o

Oh don't worry about me, people are more than generous, I have a great life! I guess I just love what I do and hope that comes across, I'm very fortunate to be able to do this and being dumb about it would be… dumb

r/whatcouldgowrong right now I think, I love the whole "fails" category in general. :P

Spotify for me personally, 99% of my music listening is done on my Mac and I'm not a big fan of iTunes, but since they're trimming it down with Catalina that might change. :D

No prob :D

If pandering helps save some cats or dogs I will be grand marshal of the Pander Parade

That's a very good question, I'm vegetarian so probably not the most knowledgeable person to ask but the r/Halifax community is awesome and will probably be able to hook you up with the finest Halifax has to offer. I imagine anywhere on the waterfront honestly. :P

I wish, I plain ol' don't have the time currently. :(

Ha, I don't quite think that's the reality I live in, Apollo's a free app that you can contribute to if you want so my helipad isn't quite finished yet, and I live pretty low-key so I don't think anyone's jealous of anything, I made a time-wasting app I mean come on

It shouldn't, could you be more specific on what data it's putting into Firebase? Happy to check it out.

Are you asking what percentage of iOS developers are African American? I'm not sure how you would measure that.

Oo good question, um, I don't think I've talked about iOS 13 changes in great depth, but I'll keep more details on that a secret for now. :P

Other than awesome platforms to develop for nothing directly.

Not currently, but maybe someday :)

I don't think that's possible for two reasons. The first, you can only make the icon change when the app is active, so you'd have to open it to trigger that, and also because Apple says apps can't change icons automatically, users have to explicitly tap the icon change.

Also I LOVE that heart, that's so cute. Your cats are so photogenic.

Oh it's fully licensed by Reddit, Reddit has a full API and is great with encouraging and allowing third party apps. People have different preferences for browsing experiences and I don't think it hurts in any way to give people options. Same with Twitter for instance, there's multiple fully allowed third party apps.

Huh, that's honestly not been my experience, but I'm admittedly not as deep in the trenches as you. I guess people see cats as independent and interpret it the wrong way, but in our community whenever a cat gets abused or anything the community always comes together and does amazing things.

Thank you so much. Plan honestly right now is just to continue with Apollo as long as people will let me haha.

Maybe, I really don't have the time right now though. :(

Thank you so much. And yeah actually almost positive it was Super Monkey Ball :D

Programming is not hard, people like to make it seem like it is for some reason. It just takes practice, like anything. Honestly there's so many great tutorials and online resources out there that in Nova Scotia we're just as well off as someone living down the street from MIT. Well basically. Find an area you're interested in learning (app development, robotics, etc.), find some basic tutorials and get building. :)

I wanted to become a developer because the idea of being able to build something and actually have people use it and enjoy it sounded crazy cool haha.

Yeah dude!

I think passion goes a really long way, build things you enjoy doing and stick to stuff. :) That's basically all I did, haha, nothing too special.