A new KeyboardKit case study is up - meet Tapling! 🤩

Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James Bond. Go!

asc cli already has enough breadth to be more than a large App Store Connect wrapper The next some big releases will focus on making it the default way for shipping Apple apps, so you can make the cli your own by customizing it as much as possible for your needs asccli.sh

Ohh a simpler and safer continuation type!

I love the #SwiftUI Entry macro, but I would love for it to also synthesize this matching View extension, so we could remove even more boilerplate code.

Ok, agentic coding in Xcode 26.3 is pretty amazing!

The KeyboardKit website has been updated with new information about our business and enterprise license offering, which includes things like custom billing/SLA/terms, software escrow, expiration grace, etc. keyboardkit.com/pro/business...

Can we come up with a less frat boy sounding term than vibe coding?

$599 for the iPhone 17e is not converting well to Swedish krona :(

With all the things that go on in USPOL and Big Tech, I'm really hoping that the EU can catch up and start delivering good alternatives. For instance, is there a good Firebase alternative, or service for push notifications? And how about Mistral - is it any good? mistral.ai

I'm looking for a good online music mastering tool, to improve my various demos before publishing them. If you know of any good tool for this, I'd love to know.

Still 26.2...

With all the age verification bullshit that’s going on right now, to apply mass surveillance thinly veiled as protecting children, perhaps the European Parliament could once and for all denounce Chat Control?

Meet @b0ssai.bsky.social - a voice-first AI keyboard that lets you speak naturally and get polished, context-aware text in any app. Dictate at 180 wpm or use Boss Mode to speak a command and let AI write the response. Built on KeyboardKit. Now live on the App Store. 🎙️ keyboardkit.com/case-studies...

Installing asc cli is now much simpler: brew install asc

EmojiKit 2.3.3 is out, with improved category and selection restoration on subsequent launches, as well as new category utilities. #swift #swiftui github.com/danielsaidi/...

KeyboardKit 10.3 is out! This release introduces on-device next word prediction, significantly faster license validation, and faster layout calculations, and removes unnecessary computations for a faster typing experience. Let’s explore what’s new in this blog post! keyboardkit.com/blog/2026/02...

You type at 40 WPM. You speak at 180. BossAI turns your voice into polished, context-aware writing — across every app. Messages. Emails. Prompts. Code. No filler words. No lag. No data stored. bossai.tech

App Store Connect CLI 0.26.1 is out! Fixes: - Age rating updates with Apple’s latest required fields - First-release localization upload fallback for “What’s New” - More consistent flag parsing github.com/rudrankriya...

I was a bit too excited to meet Damiaan and see what he had created with KeyboardKit 😅 But I was so impressed with it that I couldn't help myself - such a top-tier keyboard! #swift #swiftui

OnboardingKit 9.2 is out, with new styling options and convenience initializers for the welcome screen and its USP list items. #SwiftUI github.com/danielsaidi/...

We were super frustrated with the existing guitar tuning apps out there so we made our own! It's simple, beautiful, useful. FREE for standard tuning. No subscriptions. One-time purchase to unlock everything. Share this post, go download the app, give it 5 stars 🙌 apps.apple.com/us/app/dial-...

2025 was an amazing year, where my company's SDK license revenue increased a lot from both subscriptions and business licenses. I now also see that January was the best year so far for App Store app revenue. It still dwarves in comparison with the license revenue, but I love the trend.

I did my best to protest pure data driven development when I was at eBay Sweden 10+ years ago. But it was impossible to debate against the mellow San Diego guy who in his mild way explained that "well, that's just how we do it in the valley". The rest is data harvesting history.

tvOS 26 is broken, and changes things in fundamental ways. Here's a test app. Sheets (img 2) use to be fullscreen, but are now overlays. Text fields in sheets are blurred. Full screen modals (img 3) no longer apply a background color, which means that the background bleeds through.

Added a sponsor button for those who want to contribute to my work for Foundation Models and App Store Connect CLI github.com/sponsors/ru...

Despite using X as a platform to post about progress in various projects, every time I go there and start scrolling, I feel dirty and angry afterwards. This is the water that slowly boiled som many Twitter frogs over time, and I'm glad to now be in more mellow waters.

EmojiKit 2.3 is out! 🚀 This version drastically improves the emoji grid performance and its arrow navigation, and adds a new category binding, as well as new styling options and extensions. #SwiftUI github.com/danielsaidi/...

A very annoying finding when finalizing the demo app for the new EmojiKit version, is that adding a picker to the toolbar is done differently in macOS and iOS. On iOS, seems like you must wrap the picker in a menu, but on macOS, you should add the picker directly to avoid a nested menu. 🤨

Claude Sonnet 4.5 has been completely unusable today - drawing completely incorrect conclusions all the time.

I wrote this almost a year ago, and things have become even worse. I’ve held my promise and haven’t bought any new Apple devices, except a new pair of AirPods that i needed, and will continue this 1 man boycott until Tim Cook resigns and Apple admits guilt. danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/02...

So, this happened 🤯 🇧🇷 🚀 apps.apple.com/us/story/id1...

I'm pretty happy with how my n00b icon design skills can still result in a decent outcome with Apple's new Icon Composer and Liquid Glass. This icon is just a yellow glass panel with solid black shapes, adjusted for light, dark & transparent mode. Tweaks still needed though :) #liquid-glass #swiftui

My old wallet app Wally has been redesigned for Liquid Glass, and the UI tweaked and polished. The new document-based image parser makes adding information easier, and I'm cutting the subscription price. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think :) apps.apple.com/us/app/wally...

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.