i’m a design engineer. which basically means i don’t just make things look good—I make them work. sometimes, while doing that, i end up building little tools, libraries, or components that solve annoying problems. if they seem useful, i throw them out into the world.
i don’t call myself a dev, but if i’m writing code and shipping it, does it even matter?
i used to intern at apple (maps design engineering), where i learned how to push pixels and code in ways that actually make a difference. now i’m finishing my degree, open-sourcing some things, and working on projects that keep me sane.
swift student challenge '25 winner
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Portal – seamless element transitions across root, sheets, and navigation pushes in SwiftUI. flexible af. portals, basically.
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MenuWithAView – imessage has a really cool menu accessory, this let's you add your own to any context menu, private for some reason, now public.
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RenderMeThis – useful for optimising view rendering/computation, needed it during development of deco for optimisation, hope others find use in it.
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NotchMyProblem – wanted buttons that perfectly hug the iphone notch. Positioning buttons around the iphone notch shouldn’t be that hard, so i made this.
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GlowGetter – colors being brighter than the rest of the screen seemed cool for some UI ideas, this lets you do that, or whatever idea you have.
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LogOutLoud – just what i use for logs in my apps, centralized and less boilerplate.
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GlyphMeThat – genmojis are kinda fun, they're backed by NSAdaptiveImageGylph, which wsan't exposed for SwiftUI fields + we couldn't just get them as images, this resolves that.
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CursorBounds – needed precise text cursor positions on macOS. Accessibility API helped, but it’s weird. now it’s a package.
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Garnish – UI colors should just work. this helps.
- Kyo – a school planner & organizer built with swiftui. students deserve good ui too. currently working on kyo 2.0, which is getting a full redesign & more depth.
- Deco - a wallpaper studio for crafting unique lock screens with photos, gradients, stripes, and stickers. started as a swift student challenge project, now on the app store. won for '25.
more coming soon, probably.
- build apps, interfaces, and tools that make interacting with tech feel effortless
- obsess over systems, not just visuals
- occasionally regret every decision that led to a complicated problem but solve it anyway
- sometimes occasionally build something so specific that only 3 people in the world will ever need it
if you’re building something interesting in swiftui, ui/ux, or spatial computing, i’m down to chat. otherwise, i’ll be here, making things work.
👾 built in public, shipped for fun, by aether
see you in the void.