Ryan Ashcraft

2025 was a big year for Foodnoms. Rewrote and redesigned the entire app. Grew subscription revenue 24% while cutting ad spending. Shipped 31 updates and learned a lot of valuable lessons. Full recap: foodnoms.com/news/2025-ye...

So proud of this update!

So excited to share what we’ve been working on this summer!

Two weeks ago I started prototyping an iOS 26 "Liquid Glass" redesign concept for Foodnoms in almost all SwiftUI. I've been continuously iterating on it, and it's already come a long way. Several UX wins and a few delightful touches. I think I may very well end up shipping this in the Fall 😱

Last week, I sat down with Craig Federighi for 30 minutes to talk about the iPad. We covered a lot: the iPad's multitasking journey, being inspired by macOS, iPad criticisms over the years and…the essence of the iPad in 2025. I'm proud of this one. My story: www.macstories.net/stories/inte...

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In iOS and macOS 26, we can now set the default accessibility focus on SwiftUI views 🎉 #WWDC25

Working on my first experiment with AFM: picking an initial icon when saving a food, recipe or meal as a favorite. Works quite well!

This post is a MUST READ if you use Claude Code. spiess.dev/blog/how-i-u...

o3 is now cheaper than GPT-4o!

Day 0 thoughts: 1. I really like the new look! 2. iOS 26 beta is rough (to be expected). 3. Excited to take the on-device foundation model APIs for a spin. 4. There are some other APIs, e.g. RecognizeDocumentsRequest, that look quite promising! 5. I have a lot of work to do. 6. I am excited.

This is so f'd up

The era of self-improving software has begun. Of course, it starts with paywalls. tryhelium.com

This update introduces Foodnoms Cloud: a new alternative to iCloud for syncing across devices. iCloud still remains fully supported, but this is great if you cannot use iCloud or storage is tight. Learn more: foodnoms.com/blog/foodnom...

🚀 Foodnoms 2025.10 is here with some long-requested features! ⚙️ Customizable Nutrient Summaries: choose which nutrients appear in food and meal previews 📋 Nutrition Label Layout: a simpler, more-convenient layout for nutrition info 🎚️ Active Energy Scaling: scale active energy data from Apple Health

Hope to see you there!

Feedback submitted: AVCaptureSession interrupted with .videoDeviceNotAvailableWithMultipleForegroundApps on iPhone (not iPad) with 18.4.1 (22E252) Anybody know an iOS Camera or AVFoundation engineer? FB17677854. Includes a sysdiagnose with relevant logs!

Bluesky and Mastodon feeds: LLMs are dumb Meanwhile, in the past few days, Claude and ChatGPT have helped me: - Track down a rare, obscure crash in Foodnoms - Optimize a Postgres query to be 100x faster - Fix a race condition with a Redis-based distributed lock - Implemented a small, delightful UX

The iOS Dev Happy Hour IRL event signup is LIVE. This will 100% sell out if history is any indicator. If you're going to be in the Cupertino area you're welcome to join us for free! Big thanks to our sponsor @revenuecat.com !

TIL @foodnoms.com supports importing recipes from Instagram reels

📝 Slopes Diaries 45: Building Trust blog.curtisherbert.com/slopes-diari...

SQLite Databases in App Group Containers (Don’t): mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05... #mjtsaiblog

📝 New blog post: "SQLite Databases in App Group Containers: Just Don’t”

today i did marketing

I wrote a blog post about a Swift Charts issue that's been bothering me for the longest time and how I finally found a solution for it. Hoping this saves someone some time! chriswu.com/posts/swiftu...

Amazing

✍️ New Post ✍️ I distilled my Deep Dish Swift talk on indie app marketing to three key points. Also, I've included the Numbers spreadsheet template I used in the talk to track ad spend: www.swiftjectivec.com/Three-Key-Ta...

🍕 The final event of the day is happening! @charliemchapman.com is taking the stage with @teamneem.bsky.social, @ryanashcraft.com, and @edwardsanchez.bsky.social for a Launched Live Panel

Can you believe it's almost time for another round of Deep Dish Swift?! We are looking forward to seeing you all in two days! And if you couldn't make it, you can catch a Live Stream of the event on our YouTube (www.youtube.com/@DeepDishSwift ) 👈 So... is everybody ready for #DeepDishSwift? 👀

Great move 👏 The best advice to anyone who wants to share an SQLite db is DON'T. The operating system will make your life so very difficult 😅

Foodnoms also wants to buy Chrome

I'm trying Reddit ads. I think they're actually working and driving downloads with really good CPC? Really hard to tell though with ASC…

Typed SQL query builder APIs are overrated. Just give me raw SQL. I don't want to have to learn another leaky abstraction.

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📝 New blog post: "A Series of Unfortunate Events: April 14 Foodnoms Outage Postmortem” ryanashcraft.com/april-14-202...