SwiftUI gives us a lot of control when styling SF Symbols, including custom foreground styles. One simple technique is to apply a foreground style with an inner shadow to make an icon look cut out from its background: nilcoalescing.com/blog/AddAnIn... #SwiftUI #iOSDev

My LicenseKit SDK (kankoda.com/licensekit ) lets you protect apps and SDKs with commercial licenses. You can manage local licenses and files, ingrate with 3rd party services, etc. The included LicenseManager template lets you create a multi-platform license app in #SwiftUI with a few lines of code.

I just returned from speaking at BuildStuff, and obviously lost track of time. I have worked on finalizing a talk on String Catalogs for @cocoaheadssthlm that I believed was tomorrow, but it's not until the 15th. I guess I have one more week to rehearse and polish 🫠 www.meetup.com/cocoaheads-s...

Pouring hours into open-source feels less rewarding when you know it’s just a scrape source for the abhorrent US tech elites and their AIs. Will people stop doing open-source and start making it closed-source with an invite required to see and change the code?

Swift Package Scripts 2.0.1 is out, with some l10n bug fixes 🐛 This patch makes the CLI tool independent of SPS to avoid path problems, and fixes a problem where the l10n-gen script failed to complete if the target folder didn't exist. github.com/danielsaidi/...

Charity is donated by the grace of the mega rich, establishing that THEY are in control. Taxes as imposed by US onto THEM, establishing that WE are in control. That’s why I’m so disgusted by the Dell donation, however pure and noble their intentions may be. #taxtherich

⚙️ 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘐𝘵𝘏𝘶𝘣 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 by Daniel Saidi (@danielsaidi.bsky.social) Stop manually configuring 𝘎𝘐𝘛𝘏𝘶𝘣 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. Get ready-to-use workflows for building, testing, and docs. #GitHub #Automation #SwiftPackage danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/11...

Since @cloudflare.social keeps breaking the Internet (Bolt is down) thank god for good old phone lines so that I can get to the airport.

Are we doing this again, Cloudflare???

I'm available to hire as an iOS dev! 👋 I'm open to remote, in-person, or hybrid. Either in the US or Europe. Looking for full time, something new and exciting I'm ready for a new adventure! Reposts appreciated and DM's are open

I’m happy to have an early, first day time slot for my talk at BuildStuff today. Gives me time to enjoy the rest of the conference once the talk is done :)

SwiftPackageScripts 2.0 is out! 🚀 This new version adds more scripts and workflows, improves many other scripts and adds a brand new way to parse Xcode string catalogs and create public keys from its internal keys, so that they can be used from other apps and packages. github.com/danielsaidi/...

I'll be speaking at this year's BuildStuff - an amazing multi-discipline conference that I've attended several times in the past. I can't believe I'm listed next to so many amazing speakers, and can't wait for things to kick off on Wednesday. buildstuff.events/pages/speakers

Welcome to Derry and Stranger Things S5 look utterly digital and lifeless.

I use Swift Package Scripts to automate my many open-source projects. It has a bunch of package-related scripts, and has now been extended with brand new GitHub Actions workflows. #swift #spm #github danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/11...

This is a pretty great deal, if I can say so myself :)

Putting the finishing touches to my talk on SDK Design at buildstuff.events next week. See you there?

These huge apps drive me crazy. Most often you’ll find that it’s just duplicated and uncompressed assets that bring up the app binary size without any thoughts or benefits.

I've created a tiny Swift package that makes it a easier to add persisted properties to an @Observable class. It's a very quick thing, so feel free to have a look and shoot it down if you know a cleaner way to fill the void that the lack of @AppStorage support causes. github.com/danielsaidi/...

Is there a convenient way to handle app storage-backed properties with @Observable? With ObservableObject you can apply @AppStorage to the property, but this doesn't work with @Observable's macro-based properties. #SwiftUI

BadgeIcon 2.1.4 for #SwiftUI is out! 🚀 This library makes is easy to create icons like the ones we have in the Settings app. The library defines a huge set of predefined icons and makes it easy to create your own. github.com/danielsaidi/...

OnboardingKit 9.0 for #SwiftUI is out! This library makes it easy to create great onboarding experience, and has various onboarding types, flow views like page views and slideshows, and view templates like the new intro screen. github.com/danielsaidi/...

So Xcode can't even validate a local Swift package when GitHub is down??

A few years ago, my Gmail spam folder was filled with nasty, pervo crap. Today, at 46, I've started receiving spam emails with subjects like "A bit too calm, but honest" and texts like "A place where you can converse without any stress. A place for conversations that actually mean something." 🤨

I'm getting frequent questions regarding what the "A" in the KeyboardKit icon stands for. For me, it was just a way to render a plain iOS keyboard key, but this is lost with the more stylized design. I really don't like adding KK to the key, but am at a loss how to improve the current icon.

🚀 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅-𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒊𝒕𝑯𝒖𝒃 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 by Daniel Saidi (@danielsaidi.bsky.social) Automate closed-source Swift package builds from commit to distribution. GitHub Actions orchestrates the entire pipeline - compilation, testing, and release without manual overhead. #Swift #Automation

I've been having fun with simplifying the KeyboardKit app icon for Liquid Glass and the next major app version. I don't want to change too much, while still embracing the new design, and I think this is a step in the right direction. keyboardkit.com/app #buildinpublic #swiftui

After some trial and error getting GitHub Actions to work, I can now confirm that the workflow in this post, in combination with adding dependencies to a binary Swift package, works great! KeyboardKit no longer has a copy of LicenseKit, but adds it as a dependency. danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/11...

Ok, let's give this another go. In this stream, I'll ensure that the XCFramework generating GitHub Action workflow works as expected, then update the open-source project and its docs to cover the changes. It will around an hour, after which I'll move on to Liquid Glass stuff. twitch.tv/danielsaidi

The fact that Sinners - a trope-ridden, unstructured cliche of a movie that barely reaches the 2/5 mark - got 10/10 in many places during its cinema run, tells me all I need to know about the broken state of sponsored reviews.

I meant to do a live stream, so I started OBS and started coding and doing a bunch of cool stuff with GitHub Actions, local scripts, etc. Two hours later, as I was about to stop the stream for lunch, I noticed that I never started the stream. Better luck next time? 🫣

SwiftPackageScripts 1.2 is out, with new version bump capabilities (create major, minor, patch and custom version bumps) and a new version bump GitHub Actions workflow. The binary artifact workflow is also adjusted to upload a container zip, to avoid data loss. github.com/danielsaidi/...

I'll a live stream in a few minutes, where I'll look at improving some Swift package build scripts and GitHub Action workflows. #swift #spm #github twitch.tv/danielsaidi

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I have tried to generate an XCFramework from a Swift package without using an Xcode project in so many ways...but it just doesn't work. It's so strange, given that the project generation command was removed from the CLI. Has anyone made it work?

🛠 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟-𝑈𝑝 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑈𝐼 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐾𝑒𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠 by Daniel Saidi (@danielsaidi.bsky.social) Form validation boilerplate getting unwieldy? Use keypaths to reduce repetition and boost readability in your SwiftUI forms. #SwiftUI #Forms danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/10...

SwiftPackageScripts 1.1 is out, with a new GitHub Actions workflow template for building closed-source XCFrameworks and dSYMs. This release also adds new parameters to other scripts. #swift #spm #sdks github.com/danielsaidi/...

When beauty becomes infinite and artificial, it might finally lose its power - not because we realized the inside matters, but because perfection got boring.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

KeyboardKit 10.1 is out! This release adds new features, fixes a couple of bugs, and improves the typing and view rendering performance to reduce lag while typing. keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/11...

Interesting! When moving my closed-source SDK's binary build process to GitHub Actions, the pre-validation started failing for some Swift Testing tests, even though the same tests worked locally. The solution in my case was to refactor the test structs to final classes. No other changes were needed.

When I started working on KeyboardKit 10 years ago, I was mainly intrigued by the technical challenge of mimicking the native iOS keyboard, and have since then had the luxury of being able to dig deep in this field. 1/4

New release of MusadoraKit! You can now fetch the `inFavorites` property on Album, Song, Artist and Playlist. github.com/rryam/Musado...

When building commercial, closed-source SDKs, it's important to decouple the build from your local environment, to mitigate the risk for build errors and malware. This post shows how to set up GitHub Actions to build the XCFramework & dSYMs of a binary Swift Package. danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/11...

I’ve worked on a GitHub Actions workflow to build my closed source SdK binaries for me, but it failed due to iOS runtime not being installed. After failing to fix it with the latest stable Xcode version, I realized that all my previously working OSS workflows have also stopped working 😅

In case you've ever wondered how I make those animal drawings for Art of Fauna - I don't! They are actually from the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social! #indiedev #design

Apple fixed it! #ConcentricRectangle #ios26 #swiftui #swift

KeyboardKit 10.1 Beta 1 is now available! This version adds swipe down actions on iPad, improves typing & rendering performance, and lets you extend the host application feature with an additional set of applications. You can read more about it here: keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/11... #SwiftUI

Second pick is this post by @danielsaidi.bsky.social, who stopped by our drop-in sessions at @swiftleeds.co.uk and wrote about how he applied what he learned to improve the accessibility of KeyboardKit. Want to proper nerd out about it? .keyboardKey trait, anyone?! keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/10...

This is a great recap of many things announced at WWDC25, in a very enjoyable and relaxed way. The people in this video feel relaxed and genuine, unlike the formulaic and forced nature of the last few year’s Apple events. developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

Does anyone know if there is any way to get concentric shapes to work with #SwiftUI navigation transitions? I want a sheet to open with a zoom effect, but adding the navigation transition breaks the concentric sheet content.