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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

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