The Odyssey is *amazing* movie.
Wow.
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Aleksandar Vacić
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Very opinionated. iOS apps. Espresso. Moto GP.
Formerly: winery owner, web developer.
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116426544300181364
Apple has done this same thing with indie developers. I don’t know a single person any more that is genuinely enthusiastic to code on Apple platforms. It’s just a job that could be replaced with something else in a year.
Second app successfully resurrected: Unitica is back on the App Store.
https://apps.apple.com/app/unitica/id717659011
This is complete rewrite in Swift UI, with Liquid Glass UI. I started working on this few months back; took me a lot of experimenting to find layout that did not poke me in the eye. 🫣 i even took a break and updated Banca first and many UI decisions from there found its way back to Unitica.
The app itself has a rather long history…
Waiting for Review enters day 3. I don’t recall when was the last time this happened for any of the apps I am working for.
Maybe apps that were previously removed from sale for a while now enter some very long queue 😕
This usage-per-platform graph in App Store connect is borderline useless.
Who in their right mind cares about specific minor iOS version platform spread?
I need to know how many customers I have on *major* versions so I can decide when to up my minimum deployment target.
Since I am resurrecting some of my old apps from dusty basement, I had to bring back Radiant Tap’s privacy policy back to the current site.
https://radianttap.com/privacy/
I strive to build apps in such a way that have zero interactions between me and customer data. Any data related to customer sits on their device and/or their iCloud. Bliss.
Learning concurrency through crash reports, one at the time.
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@mackuba@martianbase.net I work on such apps. They all look heavily dated and out of place, you just feel it when switching. If app has navigation or tab bars, it’s just so obvious. Custom buttons are also a big part of it.
Then again, most people likely don’t care much as I do about such things.
In one of the updates between macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 whatever, confirming Apple Pay purchases on mac with iPhone stopped working.
Restarted both devices, nothing changes. Logged-in into same account on both.
I have no idea what to do here apart from signing out of iCloud on both devices...which is the last thing I want to do.
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@jaanus welcome to the club. I need this dozen of times daily so that is the number of times I am swearing at clouds now.
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@parisba@cloudisland.nz what a horrible situation to be in. Apple seems institutionally incapable to find a humane way to resolve something like this.
@xjki She's utterly fearless and that I am in awe is mildly speaking.
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online you really got me to properly look at the default theme in Xcode. Great post.
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I really need to learn to make focused test app first before spending hours chasing my tail in a larger project.
All is well with invalidationHandler. It just really does not like when entire snapshot is rebuilt in the middle of applying transforms on visible items.
@brentsimmons random
Apps my Mac have become invisible to Spotlight. No idea what happened and few attempts are fixing it has done nothing
I read up to book 11…hm, could be up to two decades ago. Then lost track as Robert Jordan passed, Brandon Sanderson took over to finish the story, which understandably took a fair amount of time.
Finally encountered these two (last one was out of stock) at the bookshop and they are now watching me with enthusiasm from this shelf…while I realize I forgot much of story beyond book 6, I believe. 😮💨 So need to start over and…I have misplaced books 1-3. 😫
Darn it.
Finished “A Discovery of Witches”.
Just perfectly fits my kind of fantasy show: great actor performances that elevates inevitably naive premise of wildly powerful creatures hiding and being somehow diminished by stupid humans.
Wonderful series with basically no filler episodes.
Attempting to Get an app from macOS App Store. I am logged-in, Tahoe 26.4.1.
No buttons to act on, just empty box.
I can't fathom how is something like this even possible to happen.
Mac app devs — you have options in 2026. Do not make Mac App Store your only sales channel, it's utter shit that should be your last resort, if at all.
Back in the comfort of my regular office, I somehow miss the temporary make shift one with that view toward Kotor Bay #montenegro
Today is apparently not a good day to manage IAPs on AppStore Connect.
(endless reloads, empty content…)
This is likely one of the best articles I’ve read arguing for subscription-based software business model.
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@mackuba@martianbase.net that’s going to hit a hard stop next Spring although I expect most to transition this Winter.
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@atomicbird@mastodon.social Trunpo thinks that anyone just reaching out to him is kissing his ass. He’s a pathological narcissist so those words mean nothing about the actual nature of conversation.
Cook giving him that plaque is the only actual kowtowing moment. Utterly stupid move by Cook.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social huh...I should rewatch it.
If you asked me earlier, I would account that as artistic choice for different-from-western vibe. Not a world where far-east got dominant.