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webbdevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

Location: Michigan, USA

Remote: Yes (100%)

Relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Core Data, iOS/macOS, CI/CD, developer tooling

Website: https://addisonwebb.com

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addisonwebb

Email: contact@addisonwebb.com

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Senior/Lead iOS engineer with 10+ years of experience. I'm primarily looking for a great team: talented people, high engineering standards, meaningful autonomy, and an environment that's enjoyable to work in. I enjoy making good software with great people.

Recent work I've done includes modernizing a Top 100 App Store application with SwiftUI and Swift concurrency, driving strict-concurrency adoption ahead of Swift 6, cutting build times by ~50%, and eliminating production Core Data concurrency crashes. I enjoy architecture, platform/foundation work, developer tooling, and difficult technical problems while staying hands-on.

I've spent the past year and a half incorporating agentic coding tools deeply into my engineering workflow, and I'm especially interested in working on a team that see these tools as an important part of modern software development.

webbdevon Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

This was probably my mistake. This is the first time I've ever done this so I just set up an account like a regular user. I didn't figure out how to link it with my Meta Business Suite until it was too late.

webbdevon Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

Meanwhile an account I created for a new product was permanently disabled by an automated system with no path for me to appeal to a human.

(If anyone at Meta/Instagram sees this I wrote a brief blog post with the details. Please help! https://addisonwebb.com/blog/2026-06-05-Can%20Someone%20at%2... )

webbdevon Today’s developers don’t need what the App Store offers

1000% this. The App Store is stagnant because Apple refuses to improve their store to where developers choose to distribute their app on the App Store. 30% may have made sense in 2008, but it certainly doesn’t make any sense in 2020.

webbdevon Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down

I sent an email to their support team asking if they had plans to open source their apps and they said, "there are no plans".

webbdevon Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down

It's hard to believe they weren't acquired. The amount of driving data they have must be huge.

webbdevon MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem

2.4GHz 8-core, 64GB, 2TB, 5500m 8GB, external LG 5k display, no fan problems

webbdevon Stannard Rock Light

I hope to make it out to this lighthouse someday to get photographs. I’m trying to get as many photos of Michigan lighthouses for an app I’m building. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/explore-michigan/id1024621444

webbdevon Azure services in South Central region down

webbdevon Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser

Very cool!

webbdevon Ask HN: How do you manage you money?

I have used EveryDollar (everydollar.com) for the past year and it really helps me track spending. They have a plus version that only works with US banks but I have used the free version for a while now.