valwal @valwalcom

20, design engineer @semanticalhq valwal.com Germany Joined July 2020

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valwal @valwalcom

4 days ago

@cifilter Hmm maybe you could squeeze out more performance going with GCD for this use case, I’ve heard Swift’s default executor can struggle with lots of concurrent blocking work because of its small thread pool

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valwal @valwalcom

a month ago

@Dimillian are you using a specific snapshotting library or did you roll your own?

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Dave Geddes @geddski

2 months ago

This amazing TODO app that I've been beta testing just dropped! I use it for everything: daily habits, reminders, my most important things for the day. It helps my wild brain actually focus :) the dev Jürgen is also just an incredible, talented human. semantical.com

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Eddie Jiao @eddiejiao_obj

2 months ago

What if your whole computer were just pixels streamed to you from a model? I’ve been working with @zan2434 and @drewocarr to imagine a version of generative computing that’s much more flexible and visually rich than the GUIs we have today. (Video is sped up and edited)

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valwal @valwalcom

2 months ago

@Stammy this is a modifier I created a while back inspired by React Wrap Balancer, you can use it with a smaller ratio to mimic text-wrap: pretty (balance would be a ratio closer to 1) gist.github.com/ValentinWalter…

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

The button is a lightweight particle system. The shader is the sunburst effect behind the stars. The stars themselves are not vectors, they are 3D meshes. If it’s specifically the 3D look you want to learn about I would recommend a beginner friendly game engine like @unitygames or @godotengine, or @rive_app for vector based faux 3D.

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

new end-of-day animation from yesterday's update, now with a new sunburst shader ☀️

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

@PierPuccini ah gotcha, those stars are actually true 3D rendered with SceneKit (Apple's game engine adjacent framework)

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

@PierPuccini if you're talking about the shader specifically, thebookofshaders.com is a fantastic resource that got me started

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

@eke_ng_ ❤️

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

@troubledev_ thanks noel!

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valwal @valwalcom

3 months ago

@AdamWhitcroft to be fair this did used to be a limitation of early SwiftUI versions

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valwal @valwalcom

5 months ago

@cifilter you can use the APIs of AffineTransform3D on iOS to get the matrices for a ProjectionTransform

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valwal @valwalcom

6 months ago

@Dimillian Sendable is a @ _marker protocol so compile time only, it's impossible to cast a value to it

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valwal @valwalcom

7 months ago

@pointfreeco Default main actor isolation was a reactionary bandaid, a stain on Swift's otherwise beautiful concurrency story. Should have been a new language mode if they really deemed it worth the churn or never added at all.

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valwal @valwalcom

9 months ago

@samhenrigold I'd be curious to hear more about how you define fussy. Any egregious examples you're willing to throw under the bus?

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valwal @valwalcom

9 months ago

@sketch @MarceloMarfil can't wait!! that glass toolbar looks stunning

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valwal @valwalcom

9 months ago

From glass materialize transitions to bright HDR colors, this update makes use of all the latest iOS 26 goodies. Grab the TestFlight invite at semantical.com :)