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iOS Engineer @Linear. Previously: @SubstackInc, @Cocoon_HQ, and more. Creator of TinyPoll (https://teapawt.org/t.co/efdhRqafR3)

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2007
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CONVERSATIONS ON QUALITY (2024) ​ ​A limited series. ​Premieres Oct 11.
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"Complex workflows in compact form" A visual introduction to the new Linear Mobile app by @Gavmn.
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Introducing Linear Mobile. The compact companion to the Linear system. Ultraportable. Fully native. Built for afk workflows. Now available for everyone: linear.app/mobile
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I’m hiring a second iOS dev to help build @linear’s mobile app. Front row seat to help set a new standard for SwiftUI native apps used by top companies in our industry. If you know anyone, DMs are open. Remote, US timezones
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Linear Mobile v0.1 A fast, native experience for your cellular device. Pre-order today: linear.app/mobile
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Introducing Linear Asks. Turn any request into an actionable issue. → linear.app/asks
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Now available on Android!
Introducing the Substack Android app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get the app: substack.link/android
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Here’s a little behind the scenes from building out the @Substack player in Swift. An earlier version of the design had these pinned section headers that were quite challenging to get right. The contents of the section get masked as they scroll behind the header. 🧵
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Under the hood it's implemented with a parent view controller that inspects the frames of its children, determines which one intersects with the status bar at a given time, and delegates the status bar control between the children.
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If these types of UI challenges appeal to you, come join our team. We're hiring iOS engineers who love shipping, are passionate about great design, and sweat the details. boards.greenhouse.io/substac…
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Another perk of building at Substack: @alexcornell’s delightful beta icons
I hid a secret message in the icon for the internal Substack app. Do you see (or hear) it? Apps often have different icons for production and testing. A 🧵on how we ended up with this one.
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This was a really fun feature to build. Alex did an awesome job with the design. So many cool details in this thread.
We recently shipped an updated podcast player in the Substack app. It’s fully-featured – an app within an app – and it was a delight to combine all of my favorite audio design patterns into one experience. Here’s a behind the scenes 🧵at my favorite aspects:
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Really excited to share what I've been working on for the past few months. Introducing the Substack app!
Introducing the Substack app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get it now for iPhone and iPad: substack.com/app/get-ios Learn more 👇
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Josh Pyles retweeted
Four years ago, it was far from accepted that people would pay for newsletters en masse. Today, we can announce that there are more than 1 million paid subscriptions to publications on Substack. on.substack.com/p/one-millio…
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