Ricky Witherspoon

95% EM, iOS developer & Tech Lead at Fetch Rewards. 5% indie dev.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-22

@danielkasaj We're mainly SwiftUI at this point actually! It's been years since anyone has written UIKit.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-22

I'm hiring for the Growth Engagement team at Fetch Rewards! You’ll work closely with me and a collaborative, thoughtful group of engineers building high-impact features used by millions of users. If you’re interested—or know someone who might be—check out the role here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/fetch

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-22

@dmlawrence83 and I took a brief break over the holidays but were back at building out is app to learn . It's been so much fun and I'm excited to keep going.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-19

@stroughtonsmith it’s almost as if everything is “unprecedented” 🙄

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-19

@jordywitteman super cool! I don’t have kids but I’m going to check this out anyways! The same idea has been rattling around in the back of my mind ever since Apple engineers used this exact idea in one of their labs for . Glad to see it come alive for real.

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Jordy Wittemanjordywitteman
2026-01-19

My first iOS app is live on the App Store🎉

SparkyTales lets parents & kids create animal characters and bedtime stories using Apple’s Foundation Models, fully on-device & offline.

Download: apps.apple.com/us/app/sparkyta

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RevenueCatrevenuecat
2026-01-09

1 month. 7 creator briefs. $140k.

Our new hackathon, Shipyard: Creator Contest, starts on January 15!

Captain @charliemchapman is here to set the scene. More info shipping soon 🚢🏗️📦

Head to rev.cat/shippingsoon to register first.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-06

@papagno depends on your goals but I would still aim for iOS 18 personally.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-04

What good app is there for storing API Keys? I like the stock passwords app but it's not good for this. Nor do I use 1Password anymore.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2026-01-01

@steipete there will always be haters. Please keep posting. I learned a bunch from you!

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-30

@joforselldev yup! I’ve gone through the same appreciation phase. Turns out their jobs are hard!

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-29

Although SFSymbols Version 7.0 (115) is still missing plist files, I've managed to find a way to update my SFSymbols library! Version 3.0 now supports SFSymbols 7 with new symbol support for the 26.0 and 26.1 symbols set. I've also added additional metadata such as layersets, localizations, categories and usage restrictions, cleaned up some cruft, better handling of RTL variants, and made it even easier to update the library in the future.

github.com/Rspoon3/SFSymbols

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-28

@paul 😳

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-28

@mattiem The weirdest part of all of this is that the LLMs will very happily spit out your exact code for Swift 🫠. Particularly around Swift Concurrency. At least you right helpful articles!

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-28

@mattiem I'm tasked with using it very heavily at work so I don't have much of an option, but regardless I feel like it gives me super powers. I like being apart of the initial conversation - I'm getting to see best practices and shape the conversation around its use. It's been a lot of fun but also a firehose to keep up with. I see both perspectives but come down on the side of "you can't put the genie back into the bottle."

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-28

@mattiem any particular reason you’ve never tried?

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-25

@pedro @mattiem what about mentioning the new “concurrent” keyword? I see no reference to that.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-21

@dlewisdev my new app also got rejected this week. Apple says there was tax cut off on iPad, which is weird because it’s an iPhone. Only app seems a little odd to me that they would ding you on a review for that.

Ricky Witherspoonrwitherspoon
2025-12-17

There's a 50/50 chance I plug in a lightening to USB-C cable the correct way, yet 100% of the time I try, it's wrong.

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