John Crossley

Senior iOS engineer 🍏

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

I released my first premium mobile game this week.

No ads.
No subscriptions.
No energy systems.

Just a weird word puzzle wrapped around a sphere.

Built in SwiftUI.

It’s called Word Sphere.

https://t.co/4lFE8NjDAG

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

@mindinpanic Thank you and don’t blame you. The primary reason I built this was because an app I built recently had a front end, backend, database and redis. Not to mention a bunch of random commands for migrations etc. 😂

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

If your README starts with:

Open 6 terminal windows...
Run Redis...
Run the API...
Run the worker...
Run ngrok...
Hope everything starts...

…I built something for you.

Stacksmith is a native macOS app that turns your local development environment into something you can actually see and manage.

✅ One YAML file
✅ Health checks
✅ Logs
✅ Dependency management
✅ Startup diagnosis
✅ Built-in MCP server

I’m looking for beta testers.
No catch. Free access in exchange for brutally honest feedback.

https://t.co/PcXMdGPy8f

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

Can you spot a word on this spinning board?

I made Word Sphere because I wanted a word game that felt a bit more tactile than a flat grid.

It's 99p this week on iPhone if you fancy giving your brain a tiny spherical breakdown.

https://t.co/6v57xJ2Prt

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

Word Sphere is 99p this week 🎉

I made a word game where the board is a spinning sphere.
Swipe, rotate, and find hidden words before your brain gives up.

Out now on iPhone 👇

https://t.co/ZIEVQwbSLo

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

One thing I've noticed since launching Word Sphere is that players spend most of their time focused on the sphere itself.

I've been making some small UI tweaks to improve the visibility of scoring, combos and other game information without distracting from the puzzle.

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

Hey @twostraws ,

I’ve just shipped a word game called Word Sphere, built entirely in SwiftUI.

It’s a pseudo 3D sphere of 256 letters rendered in a single Canvas, with projection, depth sorting and inertial rotation all handled in SwiftUI!

Thought you might find it interesting.

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

@BeyondMeat guys what happened to beyond meat in the UK? It used to be king of the plant meats but now… 😖

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

@DPDCare do you think this an an acceptable method of delivery? Thanks to you all my food for the week has been smashed up.

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

@HaloSupport is it me or is matchmaking just constantly struggling 😔

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

@OpenAI Hi there openAI my account has been charged today for ChatGPT but for some reason I have been reverted back to a free member. I cant seem to contact support due to me not being a paid member, can you please advise on how I can resolve this please?

[John Crossley @jonnothebonno]

Nice to see @Apple advertising services to me on my operating systems settings page (iOS)