Declan McKenna

iOS / AI Developer. Boulderer, Nomad and table top gamer.

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

This weeks bus-widget app plan:
* Release it on TestFlight for the UK
* Investigate TransportAPI giving me timetables rather than livebusdata
* Reduce the API calls I make / Cache stops locally
* Use keychain for API keys and investigate backend options
* Create a logo

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

Coming up to my 3rd week building a realtime bus stop widget.
This week: → Multi-stop return trip widgets → Figure out affordable refresh strategy → Ship beta on TestFlight
#buildinpublic

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@ashzyumer I use google maps to check my bus-times but the 20 seconds it takes is something I do 2-3 times a day and it often dismisses the trip if I don't keep the screen open. It's been fun building a solution for myself.

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

I'm making my first indie app since 2013. A bus-stop time-table widget. Real time departures on your home-screen without opening an app. #buildinpublic

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

Earlier this year I tried my hand at AI evaluation engineering by creating a moral compassion benchmark and testing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok with it.
https://t.co/CUjiIODQ9M

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

January I spent a month living in a co-working center in Blackpool
https://t.co/jIodhZezPw

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

I recently dipped my toe into coding for animal welfare.
https://t.co/S4pl1pT0cD

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

Back on here after a while, wrote about leaving iOS dev after 12 years if anyone's curious.
https://t.co/6in9PUFUOv

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@mSykeCodes Build on top of it! We don't have time to refactor and need to get this house ready for production!

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@levelsio This is the paper this comes from.
https://t.co/oMor3oda6E

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@levelsio Sharing this graph without context is a bit misleading.

It's a measure of the tax rate paid for every dollar earned above that countries highest tax rate. (In the UK this is £150K). It doesn't represent an average, even for people who do earn £150K+.

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@sondesix A Gameboy advance emulator

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

Also thanks to @superpimms for making the PR. I hope I'm not breaking open source etiquette by asking for a review via Twitter.😅😅

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@pointfreeco Firstly thank you for open sourcing your snapshot library, it's awesome!
We've been having issues where snapshots made on arm64/M1 machines have different images to Intel. There's a PR fix here https://t.co/yo2RngfuNo, can we get some eyes on it? 😇🙏

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@nicklockwood @The_Mystery_One If the data will be needed throughout the apps lifespan what’s the cutoff size where you wouldn’t do this? There must come a point when this will hinder performance.

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@hybridcattt I did the same a few months back. I’d like to use it more but there’s no getting around that it makes me fairly anxious using it.

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

Working from home is fun

[Declan McKenna @Dec_McK]

@Valzevul Have you found a good way to get HoMM3 working on a Mac? Absolutely love that game but haven’t played it since selling my pc.

[Isin Altinkaya @IsinAltinkaya]

@cassidoo What's stopping you from coding like this?

[Kerim ⛷️ @kerimswift]

in macOS Finder cmd+shift+. toggles hidden files on/off. how did i survive without this😱