There’s a lot going on that I want to be away from at the minute. Couple this with my desire to push my skills forward and make something I’m working on a micro.blog app built in Swift, and its placeholder name is micro social.

If you’ve been on micro.blog or any of my connected services the last few days, I’m probably muted from all the test posts I’m doing, but it’s all from a good place. I’ve wanted to build something of my own for a while, and I’m glad I started this project. The app itself is very bare bones at the minute, but I’m building faster than I expected.

My aims are for it to be native, all built in swift UI and as fast as possible. There won’t be all the bells and whistles for posting long blog posts I’m afraid, although it will still be possible. I want it to be for those that want something more social from micro.blog — hence the name.

I’m placing my attention on good timeline updating, simple UI for threading replies and making it as easy to use as possible. There’s a long way to go yet, but I’ve been using it to read the timeline and post short posts today, and I’m happy with where it’s is and how fast it is the use.

Don’t expect betas or anything any time soon, you can see how basic it is from the screenshots. There’s also a million more complex tasks that I keep putting off and don’t even mention notifications! This post is more of holding myself accountable, so I don’t let it slide. So if you see this post and haven’t seen any updates on it in a while feel free to nag me along a little bit!