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3/3 💉Next one will hopefully be omicron ready.

After more than a year, the Icro CI/CD pipeline is working again. Also got access to Xcode cloud. CI times for Icro on free Githib Actions: 5m59s, Xcode Cloud: 6m30s

Early on while learning Japanese, I started looking for flashcard Apps to memorize Hiragana, Katakana, and basic vocabulary. Because I am me, I wanted a simple and native iOS App for it. I landed on FlashCard.app and started adding many flashcards. After a while, I got frustrated with the lack of repeating memorization strategies and started using Anki.app.

FlashCard.app does not offer a real export feature, not interested in adding hundreds of flashcards again, I started digging with Proxyman on iOS.

Not a tutorial, just sharing the basic idea:

When FlashCard.app downloads new flashcards sets with the Discover feature, the data is transmitted using a .tsv response body. By sharing your flashcards using the classroom feature, you can download your cards again on a different device. Using Proxyman, you can then fish out your own sets as a .tsv data. After removing the meta-data lines, you can then import this data into Anki by configuring your fields to match with the data inside the .tsv.

I completely forgot about App development on iPad using Swift playgrounds. I should try experimenting with the new project format…

It’s been a while…just a few updates of what happened in the few months.

After 6 years of living in our cozy Altbau flat in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, we moved to our own apartment in June. Even though it is is newly built, we still had to invest a lot of time getting small defects fixed by coordinating with construction companies. Selecting, ordering, and installing all the new furniture also took longer than expected. The global supply chain situation didn’t help here. We just received our bed a week ago. Still, a mattress on the floor was surprisingly comfortable.

I also left my previous job after more than 4.5 years and joined Reddit as a Senior iOS Engineer in September. Working on a product that I have used daily for well over 10 years is exciting, especially with a team that is highly competent and welcoming.

Slowly things become more ordered and there are countless things I want to focus on more in my spare time: Continuing learning Japanese, finally shipping the long-promised Icro updates, finishing one of the few new Apps I started. Let’s see what it will be.

The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve This video reminded me about how much I enjoyed reading Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh. Time for a re-read.