Tim Oliver

Gamer. Developer. Geek. iOS SWE at Instagram (previously at Drivemode), maker of iComics for iOS. Perth Aussie living in Japan. 日本語を勉強しようとした事がある。

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-12-27

Finally. Some cheap RAM. 😅

(Super hyped to play Death Stranding 2 on this thing.

I wish I was joking, but depressingly, I just checked and the PS5 Pro is now actually cheaper than a DDR5 RAM kit I bought back in June this year. 🫠)

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-12-25

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! 🎉🎄

Hope everyone had (or is still having) a lovely day!

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Dr Paris (he/him)parisba@cloudisland.nz
2025-12-14

So, Apple has locked out my account... for no reason. Support cannot help. Anyone got an escalation path?

#apple #appleid #help

Settings app on iOS saying you cannot login because your account has been locked.
Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-12-11

@snazzyq I reeeeeally hope that rumour that iOS/macOS 27 is another Snow Leopard with no new features and everyone focused on polish and stability is true.

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-09-18

@simonbs Ayyy! So glad to see it in an actual app! 🤩

Thanks Simon! 😁

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-08-12

@stroughtonsmith I thought this was a design wireframe. 😅

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-06-25

15 years! What an incredible milestone!

I somehow managed to completely miss that /dev/world's CFP is open! I'm submitting a few talks right now!

For any fellow Apple developers who want a reason to visit Australia, this is *the* conference for you!
cloudisland.nz/@parisba/114548

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-04-10

Siracusa fan club over here in Tokyo. 😆

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-03-16

Is it me? Or should WWDC have been announced at this point already. 🤔

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-03-13

Accidental Shirt Podcast.

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-02-15

Happy ending. The Liquid Metal seems to be a success!

And to fix all the scratching on the unit itself, I got papa dbrand to provide a nice skin for the inner part, and replacement plates for the outer part.

Beautiful. 🤩

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-02-11

True to the seller’s listing, the APU on the PS5 was completely dry in the middle, explaining why it was constantly overheating.

A quick refresh of the Liquid Metal and hopefully it’s fixed. I mean. It still boots, but I’ll have to do a proper test to see if it still overheats. XD

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-02-11

It’s a public holiday in Japan today. So I figured I’d spend it reapplying Liquid Metal to this dirt cheap PS5 I bought off Mercari. Hopefully I can’t make it any worse. 😅

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-30

Happy 5090 launch day for those who celebrate. 💰💸🤑

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-30

@BenRiceM Hahaha wait. I need the Moment app since it has to do some custom sizing adjustment to compensate for the anamorphic lense. Can Obscure do that? 😆

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-30

Back in 2019, the Mercari iOS team was cleaning out their old bookshelf and found this ObjC book.

They were 100% in love with Swift by then, so they were like “Ewwww. Let’s throw this out.” And I was like “No! I’ll take it”. 🥲

Fast forward to today, a coworker interested in adding some code to the Instagram iOS codebase asked me if I had any Objective-C books lying around.

I had just the one. 😂

A copy of the book Objective-C 2.0 translated to Japanese placed in front of an Instagram cushion.An example page from the book showing some of Objective-C’s commonly used types.
Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-29

Happy Lunar New Year!

For fellow achievement hunters, today is the day you can get the Lunar New Year achievement in 3DMark.

Apparently you have to score a “great” or higher to unlock the achievement. I might be screwed here. 😅

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-28

Office after-hours.

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-27

The crossing next to Roppongi Hills. Sparkly.

Tim Olivertimoliver
2025-01-24

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