Peter Smith

Pragmatic and profitable delivery of my own iOS apps at Fascinating Projects.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@kr0der Yes, and Error 500 if I try to send it an app.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

My Fable usage is on 89% (on a max plan) but resets in 6 hours. Currently redoing my website to look like it was produced this decade rather than running on an old template on Wordpress. If there is one thing that having Fable has done for me is to modernise everything I do. Likely to port another Obj-C/Storyboards app to SwiftUI tomorrow using Fable.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

I am a product manager and tester now.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

Fable 5 has done some amazing work in one of my apps, bringing it into this decade with a SwiftUI port and a modern look to my specifications. But it also suggested some amazing new features- quite insightful , which it has duly implemented.and they work. But I am sitting here in a cafe thinking whether I should release these features, they are impressive and graphically pretty - but just overwhelming. I look at the app and go wow! but users might be overwhelmed too. I’m likely to comment them out for a first release, just too much.. or maybe behind a simple button for premium users. I’ve not had this issue before, it would have taken me months to deliver this and I would have decided to not build features I wasn’t going to deliver. Now build is not a bottleneck and I have to withhold built features. I don’t want be overwhelmed by emails from end users who are similarly overwhelmed by the cacophony of new options in the app. This gets a #buildinpublic tag, these here are crazy times.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@adamlyttleapps You are not alone on this one. Going crazy with it. It says until July 7 in the console, unclear whether it is Australian time or a US time zone, maybe more time tomorrow because still July 7 in the US - unclear but will check tomorrow otherwise it will empty my credit card!

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

Today you can purchase for $150AUD a Claude Max plan for a month which will essentially deliver any app or feature you can think of in minutes. An absolute steal - what you can do in a whole month! Get it while you can, surely the cheapest it will ever be.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@adamlyttleapps @_MaxBlade It does say lifted *export* controls.. but I think Opus 4.8 is pretty good anyway.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@gpdawson I had this today, probably about the same time as you. Only lasted a minute or so though.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

This worked very well. Shipped an App Intents addition to an existing app today. Lovely with Siri, and premium gating works well too. It is clear in testing that none of my competition have bothered to implement either.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

Add App Intents to existing apps or build new app? There is only one of me. I guess thats why we have AI now. I think the way forward is to ask Opus - "Analyse the content of this app, taking particular note of calls to my API's that return data for display, also note which data is gated for premium users only. Please note the API's may return data that is not displayed by this app, please exclude it as out of scope for this app. Given this data, can you recommend a practical App Intents implementation that will be informative and useful to users, especially with the new iOS 27 Siri implementation, and recommend a way of gating any premium data returned by the API's so that premium end users will be able to query that data also, and non premium users may be encouraged to upgrade?" Clearly I think out loud on X.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@GabrielHauber I would be very keen to give this a try!

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@jordibruin I was watching this during the presentation, the presenters swapped in and out every now and then by walking in and out of camera, very sure they are real people - I was looking for the booth where they were located, couldn't see it!

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

Made an effort to arrive early for the #wwdc keynote - was not disappointed, I sat right at the front, it was moving to see Tim Cook speak before the keynote and after amongst Apple colleagues with folk congratualting him. Sat in row 2 of the Platform State of the Union behind the Apple folk who were on screen, quite an experience. Too many photos taken to sort through.

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@seraleev Yes, and I still sell them. Very popular. #happilyadinosaur

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

And a talk delivered on being an Indie developer. Good fun as well. https://t.co/ct8XsTelRn

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

A satisfying week - I just shipped a fix to Johnny Castaway that has been annoying for weeks - manifested as a hang after several hours. A constant set to 6 that should be set to 10 caused it all! The fix also added missing story elements and graphics! https://t.co/BLGbIGSV3G

[Flighty @Flighty]

The annual migration to Cupertino is soon underway✈️

Flying in for WWDC26? Add your flights to the community map, see who’s flying in from around the world, and discover who’s on your route along the way. https://t.co/Z62gSsnlm9

And yes, we’re bringing some very good new swag this year 😎

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

@adamlyttleapps Depends whether you’re doing it to earn $ or doing something you enjoy.. I’ve been switching from the former to the latter recently..

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

https://t.co/BLGbIGSV3G

[Peter Smith @mrpeterdsmith]

Casey Neistat is getting all prolific with videos again, very happy to see.