Dave Lightbeam

@lightbeaminsight.bsky.social

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Indie dev founder of Lightbeam Apps 🌟 Co-host of Waiting for Review with Daniel Jilg 🎙️ Lately: - Available for freelance/contract work from June 🤙 - Making my own GUI for Swift (hopefully going cross platform) https://feed.lightbeamapps.com

An email from the Apple developer account: “Get Productive” Old Captain America sitting smiling. “No…No I don’t think I will”
Edna Mode from The Incredibles. Captioned with her quote "I never look back darling. It distracts from the now."
“Before”. Pictured in my hand, above a concrete floor. The controller is white with blue cut out backgrounds around each slider and knob. The plastic is faded in places and it’s a little dirty, but that’s hard to see in the photo
The flower image, with Walter White from Breaking bad super imposed over the flower
A video recording of me holding an Android phone, demonstrating the UI in a test app where sliders are controlling a shader displaying a colour gradient at the top of the screen
A man wearing goggles, moving his head approximately to the beat. The video is effected with video feedback, pixelisation, and purple/blue tones. It pauses and fades out at the end of the video
A selfie with me and my cat, both of our faces are pixelated
A blackbird perched on the edge of a raised bed
A meme in one of my slides showing a meme. It's Charlie Day from Always Sunny in California meme. A man looking manic with a cigarette in his hand, in font of a board with scraps of paper and newspaper cuttings with string connecting them all
A screenshot of a black iPhone app, with assorted blue buttons in my demo app. It's currently focused on a screen that demonstrates spacers in horizontal and vertical stacking content
A screen recording showing a test UI. At the top is a shader displayed in a square view. Below are 3 sliders controlling parameters in real time to adjust its output. It shows a gradient, with sliders controlling hue, saturation and brightness
Lavender stems and flowers in a big red plant pot
A video showing toggles turning parts of the UI on and off, and a slider for good measure - in the iOS simulator
A screenshot from Xcode, showing my DSL, with code that looks pretty familiar to SwiftUI devs as it's very similar primitives. The naming convention is the same, just prefixed with VX (so VStack is VXVStack), so I can tell the difference when I'm developing
A test app showing various iterations of ZStacks and alignment options
A tabby cat with her tongue out
My proof of concept app with a shader being controlled. This is using ImGUI on iOS
My ImGUI based "Hello World" UI, running full screen in the iOS simulator. Notably, it stretches to fit the available space on rotation - I'm pleased
Bilbo Baggins running out of the shire, captioned with “I’m going on a side quest!”
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sundance: "You just keep thinking Butch that's what you're good at" Butch: "Boy I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals"
A realistic Wellington Calendar. It shows a season called “Shitsville” from Sep-Dec, sandwiched between “spring 1” and “spring 2”
Screenshot of doom after the IDKFA cheat code applied. The text at top tells the player “very happy ammo added”
A video showing an eye moving on loop, with video feedback distorting the image as it it plays. It has multiple colours, and a ripple kinda flow
A man and a woman, almost kissing in outline, with an almost video scanline warp on the background behind them
Lemon Jelly’s “Lost Horizons” art work. In a black frame on my wall. It depicts a gray city landscape on the left flowing into countryside in full vibrant colour on the right hand side. Above the city is “you are here” with an arrow. Above the countryside and sea on the right is “you should be here” with an arrow.
A tabby cat snoozing on a pink fluffy cushion, on a basket in a chair in my home office
A view of the app so far, with no video loaded. It has a black and CRT green accent to its UI.
Me, drinking a cup of tea. A video effect is running, with edges highlighted in colour. I’m in a deep shadow so it’s a very dark scene
My Apple Watch showing a good morning screen titled “Good Morning Batman”
A man in sped up video on a fish eye, with purple and pink lines blended over in an old school music video style
A video showing the community tab in my app, with tappable social media links taking the user out of the app and to people’s Instagram accounts Music: Embrace by Evgeny Bardyuzha, royalty free from Pixabay