valzevul

Born on January 29, 2019•997 Karma

20 days ago

•on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

  Location: Vancouver, Canada
  Remote: Yes (worldwide)
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, TCA, Core ML/Vision, HealthKit, watchOS, BLE/NFC, Push Notifications, App Store Review, OWASP MASVS, visionOS
  Email: hn@drobinin.com

Résumé: https://drobinin.com/consulting

Senior iOS engineer / Apple-platform consultant with 12+ years of experience.

I build and fix iOS and Vision Pro apps from medical devices and high-traffic consumer apps to vibecoded startups. I also help teams get difficult apps approved: App Store rejection triage, reviewer-note/metadata fixes, and fractional senior iOS support for startups.

valzevul•

24 days ago

•on: I analysed 20 years of my chats

I wish I had kept my IRC logs but I am quite happy the ICQ logs are gone.

valzevul•

24 days ago

•on: I analysed 20 years of my chats

Hi, OP here. No idea how I did it ten years ago, but looking at the Dunbar layer contraction, my active network (e.g acquaintances) peaks at 275 in 2016 and gradually declines to about 60 by 2026, and the close friends layer drops from 9 in 2016 to 5 in 2026.

valzevul•

24 days ago

•on: I analysed 20 years of my chats

Hi, OP here!

TF-IDF was the first thing I tried - it works great for stopwords but it doesn't handle cross-language bleed of filler words well, and the short life-event messages ("he died", etc) use common words and get aggressively down-weighted.

I had some asymmetry analysis when looking at directional sentiment and per-person question rates - that's fun indeed!

I also went with the Jaccard convergence and the endearment categories instead of wordclouds, so that I could see how word choices are changing across time.

valzevul•

24 days ago

•on: I analysed 20 years of my chats

In the same app, if you go down Settings -> Advanced -> scroll to the bottom -> Export Telegram data, there is an option to export all chats at once, including some very handy controls like getting only your own messages for large group chats.

valzevul•

24 days ago

•on: I analysed 20 years of my chats

Do you keep separate notes for things like recommendations or addresses? I often dig through my chats to find them.

Cider9986•

24 days ago

Yeah I use NotesNook for big notes or projects.

I also use the Note to Self which is built into Signal and appears just like any other conversation. I use that for temporary stuff like addresses and keep it clean.

valzevul•

49 days ago

•on: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

Generally it means that yes, the price will stay as-is. When the developer increases the price (versus introducing a different payment tier), they have two options: either keep all existing subscribers at the current price, or offer them to agree with the price bump (users can decline though). Reducing the price affects all existing users automatically.

valzevul•

51 days ago

•on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes (worldwide) Willing to relocate: Yes (within Canada) Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, TCA, Core ML/Vision, Metal, OWASP MASVS, watchOS, iPadOS

CV: https://drobinin.com/consulting

Senior iOS engineer / consultant (12+ years). I build and fix iOS and Vision Pro apps from medical devices and high-traffic consumer apps to vibecoded startups struggling to pass App Store reviews.

valzevul•

58 days ago

•on: My phone replaced a brass plug

There are a few outdoor ranges around Edinburgh but they focus on clay shooting and shotguns. I think there are one or two rifle ranges in town but they only accept students.

The one I went to is indoors, although not a tunnel but a Nissen hut [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_hut

valzevul•

58 days ago

•on: My phone replaced a brass plug

With all due respect, driving past Dundee every time I fancy a wee pasty is a bit too much (and they don't do doughnuts).