Charlie Chapman

United’s Starlink rollout started with the smallest, lowest end planes and has been slowly working up which means I have the weird experience of feeling devastated when I get on a plane and see it’s bigger and nicer 😅

Woot woot, the Dark Noise iPhone Duo update is in the the store! 😁

youtube.comHello World Game – DemoFirst demo of Charlie Chapman's mad science project. Hello World (n...

ok... uh so I'm making a game... it's like if GTA & Apple Maps v1 had a baby and that baby was a custom built engine that streams in OpenMapTiles (plus some other public domain mapping data) to render the entire earth as a playable open world game More details in the 🧵👇 youtu.be/Q_RYmFrzO5Q

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5 (maybe save that explainer for another crazy person Twitter screed) Anyway, curious what you think. Now I can post my little updates here instead of blowing up all my group chats with the weird ideas

docs.google.comHello World Game - Beta & Newsletter InterestSign up to show your interest in beta testing Hello World and receive email updates. If you want to reach out directly with any questions you can hit me up at charlie@darknoise.app Eventually I might set up a proper newsletter or something but right now I'm busy getting lost in a dream world of my own creation, slowly but surely losing my mind.

If you'd like updates or are interested in possibly beta testing, I set up a little signup form: forms.gle/ZbEXvXL9812... Or just follow along here. I'm sure I'll keep posting as I bring new ideas into the game.

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And every building has a procedurally generated interior. There's tons of vehicles, skateboarding (with skateparks), snowboarding (with ski resorts & lifts) Also a photography mode with all sorts of fun goodies

The whole thing is a bit mad. Work's been insane right now and I wind down before bed by going through all of the work Claude has done that day, playtesting, writing up new project plans, and then kicking off the next day's projects across my 3 Macs in my house wirring on this all day with Opus 5.

youtube.comHello World Game – DemoFirst demo of Charlie Chapman's mad science project. Hello World (n...

Engine is all C++ with Metal (and Vulcan) renderer - which means this thing runs on ALL Apple platforms... yes even that one (ok not the watch... yet)

Right now it's just a sandbox world. No "game" just layers and layers of systems. Earth scale procedural weather systems (rain, storms, clouds, wind, KpI, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc) which means you can see them coming from the distance and travel across the landscape in a timelapse.

I have a Testflight build stuck in review for for a new thing that might be the most wild thing I've ever created

New Launched! 🚀 I’ve been admiring Ranjith and Kamal’s incredible work with Box Box Club for a long time, it was really cool getting into their backstory and all of the cool experiences with F1 they’ve had while building the app over the years 🏎️

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"Even if it's getting the legal notice. We were happy that they are using the product." The first time F1 ever contacted Box Box Club, it was a cease-and-desist over the "F1" in the app's name. Ranjith Ramanan and Kamal Kumar took it as a compliment. 🏎️ Full episode link in the comment below 👇

So I've been building the Apple native video editing app of my dreams No projects, no libraries, just drop in files, trim, crop, add AI captions, export and get out. On macOS, iOS, iPadOS and Duo And I'm calling it – against my better judgement – Trimothy TestFlight link👇

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Thanks to Apple's pretty incredible on-device Speech Framework, you can create auto-captions super quickly on any device Then edit the text, customize the color, font, outline, shadow, background, and even highlight the current word for some truly... uh... beautiful captions

testflight.apple.comJoin the Trimothy betaAvailable on iOS

And of course I’m building with iPhone Duo support right out of the gate Will this be the first video editor optimized for Duo? 🤔

This is extremely beta, you've been warned 😄 But definitely give me feedback! testflight.apple.com/join/1yvqnauG

Ever wanted to quickly crop videos on macOS without needing to import into the Photos app first? Trimothy's got you

It's been a hot minute since I hit this button

New app I've been wanting to exist for _forever_ is coming to TestFlight soon 👀 Group chat bullying me to take the branding in a... interesting direction 😅

My favorite metric for a successful @launchedfm.com episode is the amount of laughter in it, and @jagcesar.bsky.social and @fosiadesign.bsky.social served those up in spades 😅 This was such a fun one!

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"Could you even build iOS apps with that?" "Nope." César Pinto Castillo said yes to building an iPhone app with no Mac, no iPhone, and no idea what Xcode was — then bought a $150 PowerBook G4 that couldn't compile for iOS. 💻 New Launched with @jagcesar.bsky.social and @fosiadesign.bsky.social 👇

18 Sept

Just realized how weird the web is going to look on the iPhone Duo 🤔 Are there web standards these days that help with the horizontal safe areas?

17 Sept

In the new Device Hub is there a way to copy a screenshot to the clipboard without needing to save it to disk first?

17 Sept

I know we’re all impatiently awaiting the iPhone Duo simulator… but a good starting point is turning on landscape support for your iPhone app and seeing what’s broken

17 Sept

well this seems shippable 🤪

apps.apple.comFramous: Screenshot Frames App - App StoreDownload Framous: Screenshot Frames by Dark Noise LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Framous: Screenshot…

15 Sept

Went ahead and released this so you can start playing with what (static) versions of your app might look like in a folded Duo now while we wait on the proper simulator! apps.apple.com/us/app/framo...

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Playing around with dynamic folding of the Duo frame in Framous 👀

15 Sept

Playing around with dynamic folding of the Duo frame in Framous 👀

15 Sept

this is actually curving at the crease too. Not sure if this matches the curve exactly but it feels close anyway for now. And this works with everything else natively in Framous so shadows, grouping, etc should all #JustWork

Whoa! Dark Noise made the Siri AI and Creativity lists for the iOS 27 highlights on the App Store! 🥳

Ooh, and Framous made it on the Golden Gate updates list on the Mac App Store 🎉

So we thinking we're getting Xcode 27.1 with the Duo simulator this week? 🤞

Happy iOS 27 / macOS 27 release day for those who celebrate 🥂

12 Sept

Cutting it a bit close, but Dark Noise is ready to go for release on Monday with iOS 27! 🥳 If you're press and looking for apps integrated with the new Siri AI, or implementing the new extra-large widgets, check out my press kit below 👇 Here's how it looks with Siri AI

12 Sept

And here's the new extra large widgets available now on iPhone

darknoise.appDark Noise 3.6 - Extra Large Widgets & New Siri SupportThe official site of the Dark Noise app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

12 Sept

For all this info and more images and assets, check out my press release here 👀 darknoise.app/posts/dark-...

Ha, rejected for asking for a rating during onboarding which... I don't do?... except it turns out I actually did add a bug that does just that 😅 So... a rare "thank you!" to App Review for catching a bug before I shipped it to customers 🙏

Kinda unexpected that they’d enter review within minutes of each other 🤔

testflight.apple.comJoin the Framous: Screenshot Frames betaAvailable on iOS

Probably not the best business idea to give away for free... but what the heck 🤪 Here's the beta for the Framous 2.0 Release coming with macOS 27 on Monday 👀 Video support, new frames (including Duo), and more! Use it to get your iOS 27 release ready! testflight.apple.com/join/UwDAXrVQ

Apps with no tab bar are going to look weird on the Duo with that huge gutter on the side... gonna be tempting to stuff things there just to make it feel less awkward 🤔 (this is the apple music app with the tab bar buttons edited out)

Couldn't ask for a better guest than David for episode 100 🚀 And it's got all the hits! ✅ Creative background (audio production) ✅ Long history on the app store ✅ How to pitch your app (without being annoying) ✅ Extremely long runtime with lots of diversions 🤪

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"If I give you this $5k early, by October you're going to need another $5k, and then you're just in the cycle." First app shipped. Apple hadn't paid yet. Dad said no to the bridge loan. So David Barnard sold the Honda Accord. 🚗 Episode 100: www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIJ...

Alright, 3 iOS 27 and macOS updates submitted for Dark Noise and Framous Let’s hope App Review moves quick 🤞

I've been doing a terrible job of actually shipping this year, which means this Framous update actually has quite a bit of goodies on top of the new device frames including video support and this little fun guy

9 Sept

Hmm, I guess we've entered a world where there isn't just Portrait + Landscape It's 4 different rotations now since the corners aren't symetrical 🤔

9 Sept

New device bezels from Apple are up, including the Duo! Integrating them into Framous now. Will hopefully have a beta for you all soon, and the Mac App Store release… whenever App Review lets me 🤪 developer.apple.com/design/reso...