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szamski.bsky.social
Indie Mac devs: where do your users actually come from? What worked beyond SEO and Reddit? 👇🏻

#IndieDev #MacDev #macOS #Reddit (4/4)
November 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
compilererrors.bsky.social
Storebench is a Mac app for App Store Connect: releases, localizations, screenshots, pricing, TestFlight and reports in one encrypted local workspace.

Source: github.com/compilererro...

Notarized build and Mac App Store release coming soon.

#indiedev #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #buildinpublic #MacDev
November 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
furnacecreek.bsky.social
Pixen, our native pixel art editor, is now optimized for iPhone Duo! Download for free today: itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixen...

#pixelart #indiedev #macdev #retrocomputing
November 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
szamski.bsky.social
That's how we build hora too. Two people, a native Mac calendar that works with Google Calendar, and every call is ours.

Not "build for everyone." Build for the Mac.

#IndieDev #MacDev #macOS (2/2)
November 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
szamski.bsky.social
What didn't speed up: my iPhone app has been waiting on App Review for 10 days.

The code got faster. Shipping didn't.

#IndieDev #AppStore #MacDev
November 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM
szamski.bsky.social
Mac apps were drawn for a pointer. Now every one of them has to earn the finger.

#macOS #MacDev #IndieDev #Productivity (2/2)
November 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
compilererrors.bsky.social
Inkline 1.9 is out!

File conversion in Developer Tools now works in the App Store build, plus new Go to Exact Text, Go to Line/Column and cleaner tool layouts.

Next up: a major QuikZip release, coming soon.

#macOS #MacApps #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #DevTools #Swift #AppKit #MacDev #Productivity
November 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
corkmac.app
There will be a discount coming in a few days, so stay tuned, and hit that like and subscribe

#swift #swiftUI #macOS #macdev #buildinpublic #macdev #homebrew #CorkApp
November 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
corkmac.app
Cork version 2.1.2 is out!

It includes some clarified legalities that correspond with the changes to the website

Full changelog: forum.rikidar.eu/topic/19/cor...

#swift #swiftUI #macOS #macdev #buildinpublic #macdev #homebrew #CorkApp
Cork 2.1.2 is Out: Just Some Legalities
Cork 2.1.2 is out, and it only includes some legalities. These include the copyright change to RIKIDAR, d.o.o., plus the addition of some mandatory legal doc...
forum.rikidar.eu
November 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
szamski.bsky.social
Nice idea, but it needs another pass. Would you rather have it around the notch?

#macOS #MacDev #Apple
November 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
marioguzman.bsky.social
My #AddressBook app for #macOS is getting close to being feature complete for v1.0. 😊

My design goal for this app was to make it as #Macintosh as possible.

I still have a few little features to implement and clean up others but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

#MacDev #AppKit
November 3, 2026 at 4:10 PM
corkmac.app
The payment system is now online, thank you for your patience!

Check it out at corkmac.app

#CorkApp #buildinpublic #SysAdmin #macdev
Cork: The Homebrew GUI for macOS free of AI
corkmac.app
November 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
szamski.bsky.social
And if someone has a spare Mac mini with more RAM to lend, I won't say no 😅

The article: horacal.app/blog/swiftui...

#SwiftUI #MacDev #IndieDev #Xcode
SwiftUI Profiling with Instruments
How we profiled hora Calendar with 100,000 events, reduced costly hover and layout work, and learned to separate SwiftData reads from SwiftUI updates.
horacal.app
November 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
swiftdevjournal.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
The following article shows how the developer of a SwiftUI Mac app handled an issue where the window size was not being restored when the app launched:

https://roland.leth.ro/blog/tech/swiftui-not-restoring-the-window-size-on-macos

#swiftui #macdev
SwiftUI not restoring the window size on macOS | Roland Leth
SwiftUI kept opening my Mac app at its default size instead of where I left it. The cause was a private ViewModifier at the window root; the fix was one word.
roland.leth.ro
November 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
szamski.bsky.social
→ Direct touches only come through gesture recognizers.
→ Hover has no touch equivalent. Anything hidden behind hover needs another way in.
→ No new Mac needed to test: an iPad over Sidecar does it.

Saving this for my own audit.

#macOS #SwiftUI #MacDev #AppKit
November 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
corkmac.app
As always, there was no AI used in the development of this update or any of the new itegrations. Read our resolute zero-AI stance: corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

#fuckai #NoAI #swift #SwiftUI #macdev
Our AI Stance - No AI, Ever: Cork
corkmac.app
November 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
swiftdevjournal.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
Are you new to Mac development and trying to figure out how to run your app outside Xcode? If so, the following article will help:

https://swiftdevjournal.com/running-a-mac-app-outside-of-xcode/

#Xcode #macdev
Running a Mac App Outside of Xcode
When you are developing a Mac app, you run it often from Xcode. But eventually you will run it outside of Xcode. You have two ways to run a Mac app outside of Xcode. Locate the build folder Archive and export the project Locate the Build Folder If you’re actively developing your app, locating the app from its build folder is the easiest way to run the app outside of Xcode. In Xcode choose Product > Show Build Folder in Finder to show the app’s build folder.
swiftdevjournal.com
November 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
szamski.bsky.social
Marketer who codes. Still learning the marketing part 😅
What actually moved ASO for your app?

#ASO #AppStore #IndieDev #MacDev (4/4)
October 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
szamski.bsky.social
x.com/szamski/stat...

#macOS #Electron #MacDev (3/3)
October 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
mindaugasrudokas.com
Now there is new (plus bigger and dynamic) edge case to worry about in regards to the content of your window corners:

#MacDev
October 29, 2026 at 5:42 PM
szamski.bsky.social
Then I started building Mac and iPhone apps. M5, 16 GB: one debug run at a time. Add a second simulator and it stops responding.

16 GB is the baseline for app dev now, not the comfortable option.

#MacBookPro #MacDev #IndieDev #Xcode (2/2)
October 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
corkmac.app
Cork version 2.1.1 is out!

It includes a fix for the Full Disk Access permissions prompt not disappearing, and Hebrew + Czech translations

Full changelog: forum.rikidar.eu/topic/18/cor...

Happy Corking!

#swift #swiftUI #macOS #macdev #buildinpublic #macdev #homebrew #CorkApp
Cork 2.1.1 is Out: Fixed permissions issue item not disappearing
Additions Hebrew translation updated by Keren Bell Czech translation updated by me Fixes Full Disk Access request on start page not disappearing on Full D...
forum.rikidar.eu
October 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
corkmac.app
As always, there was no AI used in the development of this update. Read our resolute zero-AI stance: corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

#fuckai #NoAI #swift #SwiftUI #macdev
Our AI Stance - No AI, Ever: Cork
corkmac.app
October 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
schmidtpabst.bsky.social
1/3 My files live everywhere: Photoshop on one SSD, photos on three SD cards, PDFs in a folder I forgot existed.

So I built Caracara, a Mac app that gathers everything for a project without moving, copying or duplicating a single file.

#buildinpublic #macapp #macdev
October 27, 2026 at 8:41 AM
schmidtpabst.bsky.social
2/3 Unplug a drive and its files grey out instead of vanishing. Search finds text inside images, on the Mac.
Or click a color swatch and see every image that has it.

No account, no cloud, no telemetry.

#macdev #macapp #buildinpublic
October 27, 2026 at 8:42 AM