iOS developer and tech lead currently working @kinandcarta_cr I also enjoy public speaking and used to help organise @nslondon

London, England
Joined November 2013
Watching the ever increasing decline of the HomePod is so painful! Every update makes it more unusable! By far the worst @Apple product! The poor team at @AppleSupport don’t have a chance!
Spending a few days working with Structured concurrency in Swift and I'm really enjoying it so far, in a few places I think it can be slightly jarring to use and I feel like I'm missing an easy way to do some things but the overall affect is much better code
Neil Horton retweeted
funnily, a lot of the resources that promise to teach us, are themselves somewhat contaminated by the fishing lure problem so you really have to think for yourself
a little joke anecdote I think about a lot: guy goes to fishing shop and sees all the lures and he’s like wow! do fishes like the lures more because they’re so shiny and colourful? and fishing shop guy says, my boy, I don’t sell to the fish
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I understand the need for chatbots in call centres, but when done poorly they lead to the worst in customer experiences, take this example from @YodelOnline
Two nights in a row @YodelOnline have supposedly “delivered” two operate parcels to me. No parcel delivered and customer services are refusing to help, over £600 stolen #mikehancox #yodelonline #yodelnotdelivered #theft
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Xcode release notes giveth and the immediately taketh away!
Characters: wandering accent Colin Awards: Most verbose, beloved by welsh grans, best use of mime @mischiefcomedy #MischiefMovieNightIn
I hate myself for saying it but the #AppleOne pricing is very compelling!!!
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Making a new gin cabinet with miiinnniiieee! The cabinet is my dads old standard issue trunk from when he first joined the navy. Contact paper back and sides with homemade shelves and bottle rack cut, sanded and… instagram.com/p/CCUGmbihw9D/…
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These UICollectionView updates!!!! 😍😍😍
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Cannot reccomend Iain highly enough!!!
Hi All, so around Christmas I decided to leave HSBC. I’d been the iOS chapter lead for a couple of years and wanted a change of environment. Over the last couple of months I’ve been working with a great small team building a new financial product, but sadly…
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Hi All, so around Christmas I decided to leave HSBC. I’d been the iOS chapter lead for a couple of years and wanted a change of environment. Over the last couple of months I’ve been working with a great small team building a new financial product, but sadly…
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I've updated swift-docker-cli to use the new ArgumentParser library from apple. It makes it really easy to write declarative multi subcommand utilities. Definitely worth checking it out, if you are interested.
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Continuing my series on Health and Wellbeing iOS frameworks my latest series looks at how we can rapidly build a COVID-19 symptom tracker using CareKit. medium.com/kinandcartacreate… #swift #covid19 #ios #iosdev #apple #healthandwellbeing
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The first part of my series concerning building Health and Wellbeing apps in iOS has landed. In part one I introduce HealthKit, ResearchKit, and CareKit with some of their high level responsibilities medium.com/kinandcartacreate… #iOS #HealthKit #iosdev #Health #Wellbeing
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Neil Horton retweeted
10 seconds of qualifying but we had the best row of the season and can’t believe we made it this far! So proud to be part of this boat! #kingstonrowingclub #kingstonrowing #henleyroyalregatta @ Henley on Thames instagram.com/p/BzSbk_HhiOi/…
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