ASC 0.8.1 is out! 🎉 - Better IPA Info.plist parsing (numeric/binary values) - Optional retry logging via ASC_RETRY_LOG - Retry env vars documented Release: github.com/rudrankriya...

So this so-so band plays and people flow into the mosh pit…and start to run counter clockwise in synchronized, non-colliding way? Basically jogging together!?

👁️ 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 by Daniel Saidi (@danielsaidi.bsky.social) Need to extract text from images on-device? Explore Apple's 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 framework and its evolution from completion handlers to 𝘢𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤/𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵. #VisionFramework #iOS #NLP danielsaidi.com/blog/2026/01...

These kinds of jelly effects are a very nice addition when moving my old Wally app to Liquid Glass. Now I just need to adjust some of the older screens where the old leather stitch effect feels off. #SwiftUI

At today’s Apple event on Foundation Models, I discovered that tweaking the sampling and temperature parameters drastically improves the prediction logic that I want to add to KeyboardKit. 🤩

AppIconKit 0.9 is out! 🚀 This library makes it easy to manage alternate app icons for iOS, macOS and macOS Catalyst. The new version adds Catalyst support and new icon functionality. #Swift #SwiftUI github.com/danielsaidi/...

👏 Shoutout to the authors: Manthan Gupta, @natpanferova.bsky.social, @massicotte.org, Gabriel Fernandes Thomaz, @tiagogogo.bsky.social, Wesley Matlock, @danielsaidi.bsky.social, Artem Mirzabekian, @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

KeyboardKit 10.2.2 is out! 🚀 This patch adjusts the host application handling, fixes a dark mode rendering bug on older devices, and improves layout calculation by reducing the amount of input set calculations. github.com/KeyboardKit/...

What amazes me is how Apple time and time again can go from super flaky stuff and utter garbage to amazing things. Maps was horrible when it launched, as was tech like Universal Clipboard and AirDrop (and don’t even mention SwiftUI), and now they’re all insanely great platform features. 🤩

I received a bug report from a customer with a license that expires in Aug'26. When a their product run on a Buddhist calendar device, my SDK shows that the license has expired with an invalid year (2026 BE) but when I try this, my app correctly maps the date. Does anyone know why this happens?

Apple’s Vision framework is an amazing framework for performing powerful image analysis directly on your device. In this article, I write about how to use the new RecognizeDocumentsRequest to recognize complete paragraphs of text in an image. #SwiftUI danielsaidi.com/blog/2026/01...

My oooooold app Wally (first released in 2012), is being updated for Liquid Glass. Wally 6 has a polished UI and supports more item data, like misc. dates. It will also use the new Vision document recognizer for better text parsing. Just a few more tweaks, then I'll submit it for review. wally.app

In this article, we explore how to use the Vision framework to parse text from images. 📝 Instead of the old text recognition request, we can use the new document recognition request in iOS 26, to parse paragraphs instead of single lines of text. #SwiftUI danielsaidi.com/blog/2026/01...

Fun how we in 10 years went from “Make the world a better place” to “Make the profit higher”.

OnboardingKit 9.1.3 is out, with new Liquid Glass button styles for platforms that support them. github.com/danielsaidi/...

I'm very happy with the new in-keyboard dictation engine. It's a huge step forward and makes voice-based operations a lot easier to use in keyboard extensions, while keeping things private and entirely on-device. The next step is to make it easy to send the dictated text elsewhere, like an AI model.

I just got my latest KeyboardKit app update rejected for using background audio for the new in-keyboard dictation. Apple rejected it bcs they didn't find any playable audio in the app. I replied with why it needs bg audio, but I'm worried that they'll still reject. keyboardkit.com/blog/2026/01...

The #SwiftUI TextReplacements project now has an online DocC documentation website. This library makes it easy to replace parts of a native Text with other styles, and build native Text views with text and link components. github.com/danielsaidi/...

Like I wished for Russians to riot against the Ukrainian invasion, which didn’t happen, I hope for American citizens to do more about the current situation than just being aghast on social media. It’s not enough.

Swift Effect is now in public preview! it is an architecture-agnostic effect system that makes side effects (such as I/O, networking, randomness, concurrency) controllable, composable, and testable without forcing structural changes to your application code. github.com/Alex-Ozun/sw... #swiftlang

🎉 HandySwiftUI 2.0 is out! Major new async handling features: AsyncView for automatic state management, AsyncState/AsyncResult for manual control, plus onFirstAppear modifier & more. All documented with real-world examples from my apps. 👇 github.com/FlineDev/Han... #iOSDev #OpenSource #SwiftUI

KeyboardKit 10.2 will include a brand new keyboard dictation experience, where dictation can be performed within the keyboard. This new feature also includes new progress views, volume recorders and visualizers, etc. keyboardkit.com/blog/2026/01...

SwiftPackageScripts 2.1.1 is out! 🚀 This update adds a platform picker to the XCFramework GitHub Actions workflow, to make it easy to build a binary framework for a single or multiple platforms. github.com/danielsaidi/...

A recording of my talk on Localizing Swift Packages with String Catalogs from @cocoaheadssthlm is now up on my website. #swift #swiftui #localization #l10n danielsaidi.com/talks/2025/1...

The new @keyboardkit.bsky.social in-keyboard dictation is a huge improvement for apps that need to dictate directly in the keyboard. The keyboard only opens the app if needed, then runs dictation in the background. The done button can be customized to enable post-processing before applying the text.

I'm excited to see so many new, exciting Swedish bands and artists. Junior Brielle is an amazing two-person band, while Folke Nikanor teams up with other bands and artists, like Vasas Flora och Fauna, to create wonderful songs like this one. open.spotify.com/track/7Mq0sS...

Happy New Year everyone! 🥂🥳

I finally had time (and lack of dread) to sit down with a brand new dictation experience for KeyboardKit. Based on some insights from @jordi.bsky.social I have built an “audio bridge” that lets the user perform dictation almost entirely in the keyboard. I have some UI left then it’s shipping time 🎉

Swedes consider Sweden pretty free from corruption, yet we have a law called PKE that applies a fee to ALL hardware capable of storing data. The fee is collected by a private org called Copyswede. The more storage, the higher the fee. To compensate from legal(!) use of such devices. www.copyswede.se

2025 has been an incredible year! I've been speaking at events in Paris, Skopje, Leeds, Vilnius and Stockholm, and had the joy of seeing KeyboardKit grow. A big thanks to all the amazing people I've had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know. Here's to an amazing 2025 and an even better 2026! 🥂

The US used to be a source of joy, inspiration and delight, one of the many reasons you jumped on the Internet, stayed for hours, and left inspired. Now you open all social media in dread, leave quickly, and stay depressed. I wonder how long this will go on before the rest of the world just…leave.

Next in our bumper bunch of videos, Daniel Saidi (@danielsaidi.bsky.social) with "Localizing Swift Packages with String Catalogs” youtube.com/watch?v=PZeBcjUcnrk #iosdev #macdev #sthlmtech

LicenseKit 2.1 is out, with brand new app utilities for creating license management applications. This version also moves types to the API surface to expose important concepts like tiers, features, etc. github.com/Kankoda/Lice...

I've added a link to the video recording of my talk at BuildStuff '25, together with some images. danielsaidi.com/talks/2025/1...

I'm putting the final touches on a new license manager app template that will be included in LicenseKit and that can be used to quickly set up a macOS app that can view license details, let you fetch licenses from remote sources like Gumroad, decrypt license files, generate license keys, etc.

Thank you for joining us for our last event of the year! We have our first recording up: J’aime Ohm with From Concept to Code: Accelerating App Development with AI! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsXg... #iosdev #macdev #sthlmtech

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

By we I mean me :D

I’m so tired of US enshittification and endless company greed that it’s not even fun anymore. The EU drastically needs to come up with a strategy to boost European entrepreneurs and stop with the endless bureaucracy bullshit.

Xcode string catalogs are great, but using them in a Swift package requires some extra considerations. After my post about how to use string catalogs in SDKs, I decided to write a second, more basic post about string catalog fundamentals and Xcode 26 improvements. danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/12...

Updating my productivity Mac to macOS 26, aiming to add some fun iOS 26 and 26.1 features to KeyboardKit.

Hi App Store Award - Meet your siblings! 🦆 I went through the full sequence of Apple App Awards. First the Student Apple Design Award in 2015, then the Apple Design Award 2025, and now the App Store Award. 🥹 What's next? 👀 #ArtOfFauna #AppStoreAwards #indiedev

🎤 Speaking at @cocoaheadssthlm.bsky.social tomorrow (Monday)! In this talk, I'll show how to use Xcode string catalogs to localize Swift packages and how to build a shared translations package for your entire organization. See you there! 👇 www.meetup.com/cocoaheads-s...

Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires

If you use Swift Macros in a library, use this script to remove 50 megs of junk that Xcode forces into your binaries: github.com/migueldeicaz... This has been a public service announcement from the Latino Coalition for Smaller Binaries. github.com/feedback-ass...

I'm redesigning the LicenseKit icon, and while I love the padlock, is the brown on brown too boring? I like the dark mode one. I tried with the complementary color, but I don't like that at all. Plain white?

I'm very excited to have a first beta out of a new SDK that I so far call MediaKit (I regret the name already). The idea is to make it super simple to create streaming media apps with Swift and SwiftUI. It's is so far pretty simple, but I look forward to working on it. github.com/Kankoda/Medi...

My absolute favorite thing about moving the XCFramework and dSYM generation for my closed-source SDKs to GitHub Actions, is that I now can update my local machines to the latest macOS versions and just configure which macOS and Xcode version to use in the workflow.

My M2 MacBook Air has been mega slow since updating to macOS Tahoe. Turns out that removing the Spotlight indexing folder as discussed in this thread was the thing my computer needed. Now it's back to normal. discussions.apple.com/thread/25614...

Did I dream this, or did Apple add a way to generate and display a spatial version of an image in your own apps?