Software engineer at Nutrient (previously known as PSPDFKit) and a former NSLondon organiser. Mostly near London or Innsbruck. Find me ice skating, wakeboarding, skiing or snowboarding. he/himhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.cohttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mqpgahv4js2tlol special announcement on the train from Brussels to London now saying their Wi-Fi is “not the best” and to please stream the football using your own 4G/5G connection instead.15 Jul 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpgahv4js2thttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mq4hwmmfyp2oHeading to Berlin today for Local First Conference. It‘s a software conference themed around goals rather than technologies. Very interested to see how this goes and what other people there are building.08 Jul 2026 06:17 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4hwmmfyp2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mpqg4yxihm2aI’m seeing a regression in Apple Shortcuts where “Count Characters in …” says “Unable to decode file contents” when passed rich text. Workaround: Add a “Get text from (rich text)” and count with that instead. (I’m on macOS 26.5 but this might have been there for a while.)03 Jul 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqg4yxihm2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mpqfhhasp72xLimited social connection was always a challenge with remote work, but with AI human-to-human communication is further minimised. We exchange messages with people’s robots, or more likely we have our robots talk to their robots. Efficient, but makes me think it would be nice to hang out with people.03 Jul 2026 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqfhhasp72xhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mpjyvwnn3h2pNotes from attending the RustWeek conference in Utrecht.30 Jun 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjyvwnn3h2phttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mozgetv5752aLooking forward to being back in Wales in September to talk about Rust at iOSDevUK. Early bird conference tickets are available until the end of this month. It’s my favourite and best-value iOS conference. Also let me know if you’re interested in hiking in Eryri/Snowdonia the weekend before.24 Jun 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozgetv5752ahttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mm7phttula2rWWDC labs are conspicuously missing from the activities this year. (The private WebEx calls usually with the person who worked on the thing you're asking about.) At Nutrient, we found these the most valuable part of WWDC.19 May 2026 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7phttula2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mm6s4hph4e2zI’m excited to be learning news things at the RustWeek conference in the Netherlands.19 May 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6s4hph4e2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mksg5v55so2uWe’re trying something new for NSLondon this month: If you’re a woman, non-binary, or otherwise feel underrepresented in the London iOS developer community, you can request an early-access spot by filling in this very short form. General availability opens at 1pm BST this Monday on Meetup.01 May 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksg5v55so2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mjgtqj26un2nTIL about the ContactProvider framework on iOS (not Mac). Sounds like a way to build an end-to-end encrypted replacement for iCloud/CalDAV contacts sync if you can get your head around the difference between ContactItemEnumerating and ContactItemEnumerator.14 Apr 2026 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgtqj26un2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3milewqruoj2sInteresting evening yesterday at Rust London learning all sorts. Dan Groshev spoke about picking a dominant colour from an image. (I used a similar approach in Jamie Oliver‘s Recipes in 2014.) Jérôme Étévé gave a talk on Mokaccino and Evadne Wu on sandboxing AI agents.03 Apr 2026 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3milewqruoj2shttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mihifovuaj2qAt NSLondon we’re meeting for coffee on Sat 18th followed by a stroll in Hyde Park if the weather is fine. Bring a laptop and show your coding project. I’ll be there with non-iOS projects.01 Apr 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihifovuaj2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mgu6zdaft52zI hope everyone going has a fantastic time at NSLondon at Apple Battersea this evening. Beautiful space, and both talks sound really useful. Bit of a shame I’m away.12 Mar 2026 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgu6zdaft52zhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mgsf7p4xlh2qOne day I assume there will be a Mac with Internal Headphones to explain the need for this precise copy writing.11 Mar 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsf7p4xlh2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mfbpgpupp42dHere’s a roundup of upcoming Swift/iOS conferences in Europe. UK conference scene is strong!20 Feb 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfbpgpupp42dhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mfajprqu2v2qGreat evening at Engineering Kiosk Alps hosted by Cloudflight. Similar format to NSLondon. Talks: Anna Larch: Nextcloud is good place to work. Like Nutrient: ~160 people, remote, high trust, no fixed hours. Beate Öttl: Still good to avoid building the wrong thing fast.19 Feb 2026 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfajprqu2v2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3meouza5isc2hThis trick from Cult of Mac to disable iOS 26 update nags seems to be working well on my iPad running iOS 18: Enable iOS 18 Developer Betas. Suddenly the OS is “up to date”. No more red badges or notifications that can’t otherwise be turned off.12 Feb 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3meouza5isc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mdqslmf2y62kIn 2025, I read 50% more books than in 2024, all DRM-free, mostly audiobooks. I wrote about my reading trends and shared some book picks from the year, featuring Min Jin Lee, Marjan Kamali, Sarah Wynn-Williams and more.31 Jan 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqslmf2y62khttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mdntn57oe32kRemoved LinkedIn way to follow my posts, since it wasn’t working anyway. The cross posting from Micro.blog doesn’t seem reliable, and I don’t want to look at LinkedIn to check for replies.30 Jan 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdntn57oe32khttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mdnrunx2fr2q😳 rdar:4502553830 Jan 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnrunx2fr2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3md3pnsyfoi2uI’ll be away, but London people we have an NSLondon pub evening this coming Thursday 29th on Chancery Lane. This is in coordination with the organisers of the SwiftCraft conference in Folkestone in May, which had great speakers last year and is in a lovely venue by the sea.23 Jan 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3pnsyfoi2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mbo7rpomcf2kVivaldi tip: The setting to disable autofilling previously entered text in any form field is mislabeled as “Save and Fill Addresses”. Also note that disabling then enabling this setting will suggest text from before you disabled it.05 Jan 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbo7rpomcf2khttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mbkd5ystbp2cFor me, Apple’s dictation (including Voice Control) really, really doesn’t want to recognise the words ergonomic, ergonomics or ergonomically. After dozens of tries, every time except once it instead wrote economic, economics, or economically.03 Jan 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbkd5ystbp2chttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3mb222tk4wh2pFantastic to see the Swift Craft conference coming back next year with tickets now available. Great talks last year in a nice setting. It’s the closest Swift conference to London after the Server-Side Swift Conference.28 Dec 2025 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb222tk4wh2phttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3m7zuq2ccar27After complaining earlier this month about Xcode’s handling of branch changes, I found an older post/tweet about nearly the same thing from 9 years ago, although I don’t know what that was replying to. So many old tweets are gone. Times change, but not so much Xcode.15 Dec 2025 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zuq2ccar27https://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3m7rz5hkizs2mSwiftUI in iOS 26 adds equivalents of UIBarButtonItem.SystemItem.done and UIBarButtonItem.SystemItem.cancel to get standard Done and Cancel buttons. Here’s the code we're using to wrap this new API with fallbacks for older versions.12 Dec 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rz5hkizs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglashill.co/post/3m75upr2k2k2nThe app icon is green because I happen to often use Xcode and Simulator at the same time. Two apps with icons that are the same shape and same colour and so are terrible at their main purpose of distinguishing the app.04 Dec 2025 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:yd22bcpy36vw6ez7phpueyt5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m75upr2k2k2n