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Paul Hudson

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Paul Hudson

@twostraws

Learning and sharing at Hacking with Swift, author of Swift, SwiftUI, and iOS books @[email protected]

Bath, UK

Joined July 2009

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Paul Hudson
@twostraws
May 15
My new Mac app is out today! It's called Kickstart, and it has just one job: helping indie app developers make more money on the App Store. It is *packed* with features, many of which are completely free. Get it here: apps.apple.com/app/kickstart-…
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Aug 17, 2024
Replying to @anumness
Ask them to solve the following and identify the pattern: - 8 ÷ 8 - 8 ÷ 4 - 8 ÷ 2 - 8 ÷ 1 - 8 ÷ 0.5 - 8 ÷ 0.25 - 8 ÷ 0.125
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Mar 2, 2024
The most “European mind cannot comprehend this” thing around 🇺🇸
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Sep 24, 2024
So @MKBHD is facing a lot of negative feedback for his new wallpapers app, and it’s mostly fair – extreme pricing, privacy invasion, solid colors for sale, etc. Some folks complained that it’s a rebadged version of an old app, and, uh, Marques is gently correcting them 😂
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Nov 17, 2020
My M1 MacBook Pro arrived today. Chances are you have various questions, but I think a whole lot is summed up in this 50-second video. (Alt text, because Twitter still doesn't make this easy: Xcode 12.3 beta unzips in 5 minutes on an M1, vs 13 minutes 22 seconds on an Intel i9)
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Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Jun 8, 2025
All checked in and ready to go! #WWDC25
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Aug 18, 2024
Replying to @anumness
An alternative is to break ÷ down into repeated subtraction. - 8 ÷ 8 (how many 8s can you subtract from 8 until you hit 0? 1) - 8 ÷ 2 (subtract 4x 2s) - 8 ÷ 0 (how many times can you subtract zero? Infinite!) I guess the problem is that “undefined” isn’t easy in early maths.
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Jun 6, 2023
So, I tried Vision Pro, and no matter how good you think it is… it's better. Just astonishing immersion backed by mind-boggling audio fidelity, and the UI has been polished and polished until it's almost invisible. Zero friction; I was a confident user in minutes. #WWDC23
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Feb 12, 2020
simctl is a great tool for controlling the iOS simulator, but I find it a little hard to use. So, I wrote Control Room: a SwiftUI macOS that lets you manipulate simulator settings easily. I'd be happy to post the code on GitHub if other folks would find it useful.
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Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Mar 4, 2021
Normalize saying "I don't know." Normalize saying "I was wrong." Normalize saying "I just learned that." It's not that hard, folks.
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Jun 9, 2024
Replying to @Otto_English
I saw this and decided to look up the Labour candidate. Left school with no qualifications, did 11 years as a paratrooper, 22-year business owner, plus a youth mentor, and more – what an amazing MP he’d make!
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Sep 14, 2021
You know #AppleEvent is getting close when Twitter activates a custom ❤️ animation – like this tweet to see it for yourself!
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Jan 23, 2021
Developers: "I need a quiet environment to work." Also developers: ✅ World's loudest mechanical keyboard ✅ Twitter open 24/7 ✅ iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch with notifications buzzing every 30 seconds
Paul Hudson
@twostraws
Jul 7, 2020
Next time you're hiring a senior iOS developer, how about you skip the algorithmic whiteboard questions and instead hand them an iPhone with VoiceOver on and ask them to turn it off – a one-minute test to tell you who has actually bothered to handle accessibility in their apps.