I'm working on building Orris (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orris-breathing-exercises/id67...): a breathing app for iOS. Built it because I wanted something simple for winding down before sleep and everything I tried was either bloated with content I didn't want or locked basic features behind a paywall.
It does guided breathing sessions with variable phase durations (4-7-8, box breathing, etc), streak tracking, and HealthKit integration. It's all based on SwiftUI, Swift 6, with no backend. Currently exploring adding ambient soundscapes for sleep sessions.
Solo project, been working on it for a few months on the side. Also been a fun journey back into iOS after almost 10 years away!
https://orrisbreathing.com
Building a box breathing app for iOS. Started it to manage stress and as an excuse to get back into native development. SwiftUI with color-coded breathing phases, customizable timing, and session tracking. In TestFlight now with beta testers.
Used Claude Code for most of the initial build — nearly one-shotted the whole thing, which was a bit surreal.
Having recently lived in an apartment building of over 900 units, I can sort of empathize... However the connivence certainly outweighs the cons. There is also a setting where you can limit Airplay broadcast to your own network which pretty much solves this issue.
Which doesn't fix the issue of "I see all my neighbors" but I agree with you. Maybe a nice intermediate would be to only show devices on your network (or maybe even ones connected to your AppleId/family) and then a "search for more" option at the bottom that will show the full list.
I feel like they've been trying to do this with wifi. Right now (in macOS) I see "Personal hotspot" "Preferred Networks" and "Other Networks" (which requires clicking to show).
One AirPlay solution I've seen is a pop up when you physically put your phone next to HomePod.
I really, really like connectivity between non-linked account. It's been really useful when going to those corporate "business centers" and you want to send over a doc to print or visiting friends.
Daily.co has a developer friendly offering that accomplishes this as well. Many offerings available and many reasons to not take on this added complexity.
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I'm Cody Product Manager and Electronics Nerd.
During the pandemic I thought it would be fun to build a meme maker tool as a side project. Growing tired of spammy online meme making tools and getting kinda sick of cracking open photoshop to make memes, DT Memes was born. My goals were to make it super quick to use, relatively flexible, and free (ad supported in the future to pay for servers)
This is an early beta - would love your feedback if you have a moment.
Have fun!
Same! Only stopped making memes cause it's annoying on PC.
It looks good but have some feedback:
Auto position should either be a button or the image should be auto positioned after it is resized as well. since it don't re-position automatically now, it's more like a one time action than a check box.
Well kinda, it make sense in a way, so don't mind that i guess lol
T-Mobile customers can opt out of the advertising program through the T-Mobile app or the T-Mobile website. In the app, access the "MORE" tab, select Advertising & Analytics, and toggle off "Use my data to make ads more relevant to me."
On the website(https://www.t-mobile.com/signin), choose "My Account," select "Profile, Privacy, and Notifications, then choose Advertising "& Analytics. From there, turn the opt-in toggle off. Sprint users can change the setting through the Sprint website. Select "Visit My Account," choose "Preferences" and then scroll down to "Manage advertising and analytics preferences." From here, turn off "Use my data to make ads more relevant to me."
I can confirm that despite being a T-mobile customer continuously for 10 years and definitely repeatedly turning this nonsense off that it was all back on (and do-not-sell was turned back off, I assume "on" means "do not sell" but obviously it's an intentionally deceptive pattern).
Combined with their decision to force prepaid customers to suddenly call them every stupid time that you want to check anything or change anything when before it worked perfectly fine on their website... I'm thinking T-Mobile is getting Sprintified and am very sad that it really doesn't seem likely that I'll be able to keep using them. I used to think they were the best, back when they were trying...
I got stuck with a $300 cancellation fee with T-Mobile after using their Starbucks Wifi service. When I told them I had specifically signed up for only one month's service, I was told over the phone that they had "decided that I wanted a one year contract instead."
The reason I even bothered to pay for wifi at Starbucks? This was before the 'free wifi' was common and standard. Almost 20 years ago. I was homeless and needed an internet connection to get things done during the day on my laptop before I found another place to stay.
The only option I was given was to continue using the Starbucks/TMobile Wifi service or pay an early termination fee. The rep said "since you have one nearby, I don't see why you couldn't keep using it."
The closest Starbucks, after I relocated, was a 30 minute drive. No public transportation. And I didn't have a car.
All I can say is that the only real options at the time seemed to be T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. Sprint had a tiny network without reasonable coverage.
It was a bad choice, but still an obvious one. They were infinitely better than the others even if they weren't as good as say, Iceland.
I was a Sprint customer and now have TMobile thanks to the merger. Sprint wasn't customer heaven, but TMobile is in fact much, much worse. In just three months, I've a had to deal with:
* A phone turn in where they did not credit my account. That cost me $200.
* A defective phone where the screen stopped working (no damage) about 60 days after purchase. Getting the phone fixed was a nightmare.
* I've been told "sorry, if you don't have the add-on insurance, we can't service your phone. You'll have to buy a new one" (the phone was 2 months old)
* I've been asked to "step outside" by a store employee when trying to get my phone serviced at a local service center after support sent me there.
* I was also told that they couldn't help because I was a "Sprint Contract" even though I bought my new phone at a TMobile store, switched to a TMobile SIM card (at the sales rep's reccommendation) and bought after the merger was official.
* It took 3 hours on the phone with their business services people to get my phone exchanged. The person who helped me was actively looking for a new job (I'm in the HR Tech space)
It's a dystopian hellscape at TMobile and I cannot wait until my contract is up. And I'd suggest that anyone avoid TMobile like the hellspawn of coronavirus, ebola and your favorite STD. I genuinely feel bad for the employees. At every step they were in fear of losing their job for the slightest action that was against policy.
It doesn't seem to work for prepaid T-Mobile customers.
The menus at prepaid.t-mobile.com are slightly different, and don't seem to have the necessary options.
Prepaid customers definitely seem to be second class customers at T-Mobile.
First, the T-Mobile app doesn't work for us. It says "Sorry we're not ready for you yet. We're working on improving your app experience" and tells you to use the website. It's been doing that for several years now.
Second, they don't support paying with Apple pay.
And now, it looks like we don't get the same privacy options that postpaid customers get.
For me, I can login when I go to that first link, and then it redirects to an error page. If I try going to the link again, it says it needs to verify my and asks to send a code by text or email. I picked email, got the code, entered it--and it tells me to enter a valid code.
Were you ever T-Mobile postpaid? I was, and it appears that their prepaid and postpaid systems are partly shared, partly separate. I suspect that this leads to parts of their site getting confused.
It is interesting that the one that you say works is the exact first link in my post. So it didn't work but then did work?
Sounds like they've got some screwy cookie and redirect stuff going on. For full context, I logged in to my account, and then clicked on those links (which I still had to log in again for, but maybe it made a difference?).
Yup, it's not just you. I've been receiving that same sorry message in the app ever since I switched from T-Mobile regular to T-Mobile prepaid last year.
During the switch, I had to provide all my information all over again even though I was with T-Mobile for many years. The customer service rep said it's because they are "two different systems".
Even though it is supposedly "two different systems", they still manage to interact in annoying ways.
First, you can't use the same email to sign up with the prepaid system that you used for the postpaid system. I'm not sure what people do who only have one email address.
Second, assuming you keep the same phone number when you switch from postpaid to prepaid, once you login with your second email to you prepaid account and associate that phone number with it, you can no longer login to the postpaid account.
If you try to login to the postpaid account by phone number, it knows that is no longer a T-Mobile postpaid number, so it does not work. If you try to login by email, that works, but then you get stuck at a screen asking you to provide your T-Mobile phone number (and it means T-Mobile postpaid phone number).
Frankly, if I had known this beforehand I probably would not have went with T-Mobile prepaid. I probably would have went with Mint, which is a T-Mobile MVNO. My T-Mobile prepaid plan is $15/month with 2 GB of data. If you pay for a year at a time, Mint has a $15/month plan with 4 GB of data.
The only reason I went with T-Mobile is I assumed that since I was going from T-Mobile to T-Mobile, there would be no need to change SIMs and port my number. I'd just be billed differently.
Nope, new SIM and a number port.
Mint also handles data better than T-Mobile as far as I can see.
I've got WiFi at home, and most of the places I go to when not home either have their own free WiFi or there is an Xfinity hotspot near which is free to me since I have Xfinity internet, so almost never use even a gig of cellular data.
But it is nice to have as a backup. Last summer, for example, there was an accident that messed up lines on a nearby utility pole, taking out my internet. It took a couple days for Comcast to get that fixed and I relied on my mobile phone hotspot.
As far as I can see with my T-Mobile prepaid...once I hit 2 GB in a month, that's it. There doesn't seem to be any way to purchase additional data. With Mint, you can by extra data.
In short, T-Mobile prepaid is essentially like a T-Mobile MVNO, but not a very good one (no mobile app, can't add extra data on demand), and due to their systems sharing some data with T-Mobile postpaid, switching to them is harder for T-Mobile postpaid customers than it is for customers of any other carrier.
> I'm not sure what people do who only have one email address.
A bit of a tangential point, but most systems ain't smart enough to know that [email protected] and [email protected] are aliases of one another. Handy trick for keeping spam isolated; if you start getting unsolicited marketing emails from [email protected], then it strongly suggests who was naughty with your personal info :)
I have a prepaid T-Mobile account that was reporting the wrong name for caller ID. They flat out refused to fix it because apparently managing telecoms is too difficult for them.
Thanks for that! I tried logging in and navigating to the page, but kept getting errors at the "Privacy & Notifications" page (maybe because I'm on an old pre-paid plan?). That direct link worked fine, though. (Though who knows if it will actually take effect, or mysteriously lose my preferences.)
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Jack Erwin (http://jackerwin.com). A new approach to men’s shoes.
We started Jack Erwin to create truly timeless men’s shoes. We’ve partnered with the finest factories and artisans in the world, created custom styles available only here, and eliminated costly markups and middlemen that drive up the costs of other quality dress shoes. The result is a better choice in men’s footwear. As we build Jack Erwin, we are focused on growing our team and our brand one strong teammate at a time.
It does guided breathing sessions with variable phase durations (4-7-8, box breathing, etc), streak tracking, and HealthKit integration. It's all based on SwiftUI, Swift 6, with no backend. Currently exploring adding ambient soundscapes for sleep sessions.
Solo project, been working on it for a few months on the side. Also been a fun journey back into iOS after almost 10 years away!