Geoff Pado
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Geoff Pado
@cocoatype.com
Indie software creator at https://cocoatype.com/. I make @getbarc.app, @blackhighlighter.app, and @kineo.app.
Getting AI to replace the least-favorite part of any software dev's job: making estimates.
August 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Less time to attach, and just as useful.
February 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Peak comfort.
December 9, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Took me a whole day to add it, but all the errors it's possible for my AppIntents to throw should now have actually-helpful information like this rather than the developer-ese Shortcuts outputs by default from the first post in this thread.
November 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Doubly-so if you want it to have a dynamic value in it. Although, I guess this portion was mostly down to my use of Tuist to generate references to my strings rather than just typing the localization keys out at each call site.
November 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Either I've missed something obvious, or getting Shortcuts to display human-readable text when you throw an error is rather complicated.
November 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Migrating everything to string catalogs because of Apple’s API choices is going… just swell.
November 26, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Every year for Halloween, I do a live-stream of myself doing a "mad science" coding project. One night of asking if I could rather than if I should.

Tonight, I conformed String to View and passed it at runtime to an LLM, so you can just write apps like this:

##iOSDev
November 1, 2024 at 11:50 AM