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erin sparling

@everyplace@mastodon.social

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TLDR for the past 20+ years: - 17 in Brooklyn, ~6 in Pittsburgh - 10 in design/tech leadership in news publishing, currently ~6 at Google as part of the Reader Revenue team, helping news publishers - 14 teaching at Cooper Union, 2 at Yale - 14 w/ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Usually @everyplace@mastodon.social everywhere else.

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Joined October 28, 2022

Arduous design tool:

https://letterset.app

Personal:

https://erinsparling.com

Work:

https://developers.google.com/news/reader-revenue

Wish you were here - absurdist social postcard app:

https://wishyouwerehere.app

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erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026

@jazzychad@definitely.social thank you for talking about LERP in the context of design! I finally figured out how to apply it to my multitouch gesture recording playback system, to great effect.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 27, 2026

RE: @angusm@mastodon.social

First time I’ve ever seen “to Bobby Table” be used as a verb and I am here for it.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@gingerbeardman its a niche with a niche, but I’ll eventually release my GitHub webhook proxy. There are other “off the shelf” ways to do this to like ngrok etc.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@gingerbeardman any chance you could add a feature to this to not refresh, but receive Github’s webhook payloads? Yes nobody should expose their computer that way, but assume there are ways around that like my setup: https://docs.happitec.com/github-aws-tailnet-proxy/documentation/githubawstailnetproxy/webhookproxy

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social the challenge is when you make very gesture-driven apps like https://letterset.app and you need chained single- and multi-touch gesture playback to realistically operate the app. I’ve been working hard on this, going below the existing SimulatorKit reverse engineering to record and playback two-touch inputs, including upgrading and downgrading of the number of touches, and it’s… a lot. I can’t wait to release this. https://docs.happitec.com/package-multitouch/

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

RE: @commits@happitec.com

I’ve given my #FederatedActivityPublisher a second account: a public commit log.

Each morning a local system summarizes all work across local repos from the previous day, and groups it into a narrative, rather than being a commit log. This bot also serves as the integration test for federated markdown posting-> html rendering.

Feel free to follow, it will only post once a day, unlike @logos@happitec.com 30-minute schedule.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @janl@narrativ.es

@janl @schwa really hoping this leads to an iOS update to mitigate this.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @Tinrocket@mastodon.online

@Tinrocket omfg yes please.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @bondad@mastodon.social

@bondad@mastodon.social @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social got anything here? I sadly do not.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @andrii_ch@mas.to

@andrii_ch @fatbobman Two things to investigate via my gist https://gist.github.com/everyplace/0a1e2637261325ea1d47447f4085bf37?utm_source=Fatbobman%20Blog&utm_medium=web 1) check the logs. Sometimes you’ve configured it correctly, but the paths for dependencies for the MCP server are wrong. Look at how injecting the PATH. Check the logs to see if there’s something strange / failing. 2) you could ignore this and set the dangerous flag to make it figure itself out.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Feb 15, 2026

Replying to @mwichary@mastodon.online

@mwichary@mastodon.online illustrations like this (and, in particular, Transformers transformation instruction sheets) are what lead me to learn technical illustration so many decades ago. Love this, and the whiteout.

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Nov 12, 2025

Replying to @HEX@typo.social

@HEX Circle variable axis is such a cool idea!

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2025

Replying to @tjadejong@mastodon.social

@tjadejong @SwiftLeeds Can't wait to hear what you think!

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2025

Replying to @everyplace@mastodon.social

Specifically, thank you to: @geerlingguy your "Level 2 Jeff" persona, and how entertaining your deep-dives are in the ephemera of tech, was a big influence in tone. @stroughtonsmith I tried to delve into edge cases as much as possible, as you set the bar very high for discussing these so well. @simonbs I literally have a screenshot of your toot in this deck. If only I had more time to dig into App Attestation! Thanks for all of the ambient influence and inspiration!

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2025

My @SwiftLeeds@iosdev.space talk is now live! I tried to make a very entertaining presentation, focus almost entirely on the ecosystem of Apple apps (rather than #swiftui or any iOS framework in particular), and remind everyone that when you rely on third-party APIs, your work is as ephemeral as their business model.

If you have ever been curious how hard it is to make a postcard-sending application like #wishyouwerehere (or why I love Keynote), then this talk is for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1DtFXDsS_4

iosdev.space

SwiftLeeds (@SwiftLeeds@iosdev.space) - iOS Dev Space

erin sparling @everyplace@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2025

We are like 20 years post-FireEagle and yet my phone still doesn’t support granular location permissions per-app.

@tomcoates@me.dm I still want the future we were promised!

erin sparling

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SwiftLeeds (@SwiftLeeds@iosdev.space) - iOS Dev Space

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