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Kaya Thomas ( kayathomas.is ) comes back after half a decade to tell us about how motherhood inspired her new app Milk Diary ( milkdiary.com ). She talks about using new APIs like Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, and AlarmKit to handle the complex stuff other feeding apps miss: intelligent scheduling and reminders, combo feeding that's actually easy to track, hassle-free tracking for twins and smart milk management. Guest Kaya Thomas Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas@mastodon.social) - Mastodon Kaya (@kayathomas.is) — Bluesky kmt901 (Kaya Thomas) Kaya Thomas | LinkedIn Kaya Thomas (@kayathomas.is) • Threads, Say more Milk Diary App Related Links Rob Napier - TIL:AI. Thoughts on AI AI Code Reviews | CodeRabbit | Try for Free Related Episodes Notifications with Kaya Thomas Live from CommunityKit WWDC 2025 with Matt Massicotte Plinky with Joe Fabisevich ChatGPTovski with Kris Slazinski The Making of Callsheet with Casey Liss Apples, Glasses, and HAL, Oh My! Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion TikTok - @brightdigit Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im Youtube - @brightdigit BlueSky - ‪@leogdion.bsky.social‬ Twitter Leo - @leogdion Twitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit Credits <a href="https://fil

In this episode, I chat with Kaya Thomas, an iOS developer, author, writer, and public speaker. She currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Calm. We chat about how she broke into tech and shares a few resources for those interested in exploring tech and coding. Stay connected with Kaya follow her on Twitter: @kthomas901 Website: kaya.dev Apps Developed by Kaya: We Read Too Irth App Check out some of the things mentioned in this episode: Hacking With Swift How to write iOS apps with Paul Hudson follow on Twitter @twostraws Raywenderlich : How to make different types of apps and games Code With Chris tutorials on Youtube I enjoy self-taught learning and thought my listeners would too so I'm hooking you all up with a free trial of SkillShare SkillShare : Try out two months of SkillShare for free: skillshare.eqcm.net/yDezv Did you enjoy this? You can regularly support this podcast by donating here. I often share more thought-provoking ideas on Medium, and you can check out my most recent think piece here. Want to share your thoughts or feedback on an episode? Please leave me a voice message. I'd love to hear from you or get suggestions on other guests to bring on to the show. Visit: https://anchor.fm/not-your-average-culture/message

Guest Kaya Thomas (Twitter @kthomas901) kayathomas.info Related Episodes Episode 15: Test-Driven Development with Joshua Greene and Michael Katz Episode 8: Cloud and Backend Services For Apps Related Links We Read Too Apple's Developer Docs on Notifications Beams by Pusher NWPusher by noodlewerk Preparing Your App For iOS 12 Notifications by Kaya Thomas - Smashing Magazine Sponsors BrightDigit Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift Contact me if you need help today. We have an opening for sponsors Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page. Why Notifications Are Important Can encourage user engagement Notify of updates and messages Need to be trustworthy and needless Onboarding helps make Notifications more welcoming What are the different types of Notifications? Local vs Remote Push Notifications Remote Notifications are ideal for complex logic and messaging How Rich Notifications Work What are the challenges in implementation of Notifications? Using Enums to Implement Notifications How Categories and Actions Work Using NWPusher to Test Remote Notifications Big Improvement Coming to Xcode 11.4 How to Unit Test with Abstractions and Mocking How Push Notifications Work? Implementing Remote Notifications on the Server Using Cloud Based Services for Push Notifications such as Firebase Using Beams for Testing Push Notifi

Kaya Thomas joins John to talk about Apple’s various accessibility technologies and how SwiftUI is taking things to a whole new level. Also, how UI testing and accessibility are closely related, and what makes declarative UI development so powerful. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Instabug: Squash bugs much faster with Instabug. Get a 14 day free trial and their brand new t-shirt when you signup and integrate Instabug in your app, by going to instabug.com/sundell . Triplebyte: Apply to work for over 400 top tech companies through one single, fair and efficient interview process. Get a $1000 signing bonus when you find your next software developer job at triplebyte.com/sundell . Links Kaya on Twitter John on Twitter Calm We Read Too Kaya’s UIKonf talk Xbox Adaptive Controller Accessibility for Developers Accessibility in SwiftUI KIF Episode with James Thomson Launch arguments in Swift Kaya’s website Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk

From the archives: While still in her undergrad at Dartmouth College, Kaya Thomas developed her first app: We Read Too, a book resource application that showcases a directory of hundreds of children's and young adult fiction books written by and for people of colour, which contains over 600 books and has over 4,000 downloads. Kaya has held software engineering internships at Time Inc. and Intuit working on mobile applications. She was a CODE2040 2015 Fellow and is a technical volunteer mentor for Black Girls Code. For her work in education and technology, Kaya was honoured by Michelle Obama at the 2015 Black Girls Rock Awards. She joins us to talk about her favourite books, breaking into coding, and diversifying the publishing industry. (Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2016/3/22/podcast-we-read-too).

Kaya Thomas, creator of the app We Read Too, joins BookNet on the podcast this month. While still in her undergrad at Dartmouth College, Kaya developed We Read Too—a book resource application that showcases a directory of hundreds of children's and young adult fiction books written by and for people of colour—which contains over 600 books and has over 4,000 downloads. Kaya has held software engineering internships at Time Inc and Intuit working on mobile applications. She was a CODE2040 2015 Fellow and is a technical volunteer mentor for Black Girls Code. For her work in education and technology, Kaya was recently honoured by First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2015 Black Girls Rock Awards. She joins us to talk about her favourite books, breaking into coding, and diversifying the publishing industry. (Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2016/3/22/podcast-we-read-too). techforum.booknetcanada.ca

Kaya Thomas is an undergraduate in Computer Science at Dartmouth and is interning this summer at Intuit on the Mint iOS team. She's also a Code2040 fellow and has both a YouTube channel with tech tutorials and a book resource app called We Read Too in the iOS App Store. She and Scott talk about the difference between coding in school vs. the real world.