kylemacomber

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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Apple has relaxed the guidelines for developer tools compared to the early days of the App Store. If you look today there are Python IDEs, Jupyter Notebooks, and various other apps that execute user generated code. The key guideline to be m
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Totally! I have the same use case when I’m, say, at the park supervising my kids. You can export your entire project as a single swift file from the share sheet. This makes it pretty straightforward to import the code into an Xcode project
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
One clarification: we did not rebuild any of the frameworks. As quickly as possible, the interpreter calls out to the compiled frameworks in the OS. So Bitrig is calling into the real SwiftUI, the real Foundation, the real MapKit, etc.
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
This isn't exhaustive, but quickly top of my head: - How to Win Friends and Influence People — This was really eye opening to me and helped me more productively engage in a large organization like Apple. - Sam Harris's podcast — I
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Wow that's really high praise. Thank you.
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
There's a lot I want to do to improve the prompting experience. As I mentioned in the original post, it's very simple right now. There's a lot of inspiration we could (and probably will) draw from other products (e.g. Cline&#
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Don't tell anyone, but once you're on the paid plan we're not actually enforcing the 100 message limit right now ;) We're still in the learning phase, and are going to adjust the plans based on exactly the kind of consid
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Ya, I agree it makes sense for us to record a more tutorial length demo at this point and we can show off things like that. Thanks for the tip about the mic. Fun fact: it's me in the video, but it's Jacob doing the narration :P
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Thanks for the heads up. I confess, I did not test it on an SE. We'll take a look!
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Cool, that's really helpful context. We'll take a look at the code editing experience in those apps for inspiration.
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
You can edit the code directly in Bitrig, but we haven't optimized the experience around that. Are you imagining you'd be editing the code with the software keyboard or a paired hardware keyboard?
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Styling apps is an area we're excited to spend time exploring. Today in our system prompt we say "ALWAYS make the design Apple-like. Use clean typography and consistent padding/spacing." However, tbh it's not someth
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
Heh... it definitely wasn't an overnight approval. However, Apple has relaxed the guidelines for developer tools compared to the early days of the App Store. If you look today there are Python IDEs, Jupyter Notebooks, and various other
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by kylemacomber 1y ago
On a personal note, I wanted to thank the HN community. I’ve been reading HN since college (for over 15 years now!) and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer and leader. I don’t pipe up very often, but I visit HN almo
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Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
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by kylemacomber 7y ago
I’m one of the engineers that spearheaded this initiative inside of Apple. I just wanted to thank the HN community—I’ve been reading HN for 10 years now and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer. If you’re at WWDC sto
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by kylemacomber 15y ago
This is my first comment on HN. Until now I have been satisfied just observing. However this post was so well done that I felt obligated to create an account to leave some form of positive feedback. I found this post an intense, enlightenin