Tom's Guide recommends using the walkie talkie feature on your Apple Watch. Who wants to tell them? 😬 www.tomsguide.com/wellness/sma...

I would say that this is arguably the worst theme park ride I've ever been on. blogmickey.com/2026/07/fast...

Forget me being excited about Coin Drop being back. Silly me thinking that paying to remove ads meant that I had unlocked the full game. Here I can't keep playing unless I buy more lives or wait a certain amount of time. 🤮

I was feeling super nostalgic for old iOS games that I can't play any more. Decided on a whim to search for some and my first attempt got a hit. Coin Drop got relaunched. 🤯 Love seeing the ancient iPhone in the tutorial.

Today's 1.5 update adds much better landscape support and adds French as a language. The Apple Watch and smallest iPhones also get better support for accessibility text sizes.

My favorite pizza place is in a shopping plaza with a large vacancy. Every time I go there I have to fight the temptation to pour my savings into opening an Anytime Fitness gym. Even more so now....

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Thank you so much @hiro.report for this nice mention of What's My Set in this week's Hiro Report! www.hiro.report/05jul2026-bi...

During WWDC I got some great design feedback that What's My Set wasn't using the available space well in landscape mode. Addressing that now!

You've still got to be so careful when dealing with IAP in your app. My app passed review and is in a "pending developer release" state. It would be so easy to hit that release button but upon closer inspection the IAP is still "in review".

This blog post is from 2019 and I remember it had a huge impact on me. I still do this today!

TIL that your Apple Watch won't unlock your Mac if a sleep focus is active.

Sanity-saving use of AI: Have it resize the screenshots for reviewers that App Store Connect requires you to attach so that they meet whatever criteria are needed. No more rejected image uploads for confusing reasons.

Good news: I was charting yesterday on the Mac App Store. Bad news: I didn't remember that Mac compatibility was enabled and never tested it. The app crashed at launch on Mac. 😬 @ikenndac.bsky.social and @mergesort.me got me sorted and I'm in expedited review right now.

Nothing I do to promote my new app will ever top a poster of it hanging in an office window in Osaka thanks to @chrislindsay.bsky.social .

"What's My Set?" is out on the App Store! It's a set counter for workouts, and look at those beautiful Accessibility nutrition labels shipping from day one. Congrats, @chriswu.com! Go download and rate it.

Well, after months of work What's My Set is finally out today. It's the workout app I always wanted and I honestly love using it. I hope some other people do as well! apps.apple.com/us/app/whats...

I'm very excited and not at all freaking out that I am paired with ADAM LYTTLE at SwiftSonic this fall. 🤯😱

I assumed the animated album artwork in Apple Music would only be for new releases. 😳

I hope that I'm not crushing anyone's dream by revealing this, but @justmedevin.bsky.social is going to be the first person to buy a subscription for What's My Set.

As a certified dark mode hater I have been able to get away with having Xcode in light mode but the code window in a dark theme (which I strangely like). I can import the theme with Xcode 27 but it makes the WHOLE interface dark even though the config window correctly uses light mode. FB23456652

I am still completely captivated by Crimson Desert. Even with all the time I’ve sunk into it, there’s still so much of the map that is unexplored. I thought the exploring would be fun, but the boss fights would be miserable. They actually are quite fair and the game gives you ways to handle them.

I will not upload another build before my app is released Monday. I will not upload another build before my app is released Monday.

So excited for this!

@amro.dev I thought I was going to make it through a prime day without buying an Anker product but I failed. Thank you for your support.

This is why there are limits to how much you can proofread your work. For who knows how long my timer descriptions have been displaying my String Catalog keys and I DID NOT NOTICE. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Thank you @ryanlintott.bsky.social !

Me waiting for App Review to finally start reviewing my build with many bug fixes and the first additional language as release day gets closer and closer.

Super excited to release Substage 1.0 today! It's a HUGE update. 🖋️ Blog post: joethephish.me/blog/substag... Substage is a little Mac app that puts a command bar underneath your Finder windows, allowing you to manipulate files and more, by converting your requests to Terminal commands.

As someone who spent the first few years of their iOS dev experience working on a museum app it still feels odd to be developing apps that I genuinely use in my day to day life.

Thirty years ago today, Super Mario 64 showed the world how a 3D boss fight works. To mark the anniversary, the excerpt from my second book, 50 Years of Boss Fights, is free to read. darylbaxter.com/posts/super-...

Indie callout! If you're a solo dev or small team and your iOS app has less than 50 App Store ratings, tell me about yourself! I'll check it out, leave you a rating, and compile my faves into a roundup of hidden gems for tapsmart.com next month.

When you have an app that is up for pre-order you can still submit builds with improvements for launch day. Someone can't stop polishing and needs to just call it a day. (it's me)

If I'm just attaching an image to show App Review what my paywall looks like why are the dimensions still strictly enforced? This bites me every time. App Store screenshots viewed by millions of people - I get it. A screenshot for a reviewer - I do not get it.

I use the double tap gesture multiple times a week every week on my Apple Watch. I have been working out with my new app (What's My Set) on my Apple Watch for months testing it. It never ONCE occurred to me that I should add double tap support. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ The good news it was ridiculously easy to do so.

So thankful that people like @swiftandtips.bsky.social make these short videos to give me an idea of what’s new before I can really dive in. m.youtube.com/shorts/mTalm...

My first press coverage for What's My Set thanks to @darylbaxter.com and Springboard. 🥹 Thank you so much Daryl.

Who would be silly enough to release a new app during WWDC month? You’d be so buried with tasks trying to polish it, market it, and get everything ready that you wouldn’t have time to explore the new additions from WWDC.

Here's more detail about my Siri AI Automators meetup series, starting in Portland: I am planning events in LA, San Francisco, and possibly Seattle. With a key sponsor, I'll fly anywhere in US and host an event in your city.

My advice to introverts who have an interest in the @communitykit.social Indie Fair? Recruit an extrovert! Bluesky power user @mattheaney23.bsky.social came in clutch and took over after an hour when my voice started going out again. And @joe.inkle.co can verify that I am indeed an introvert.

I made a new app (first time in 3 years) and it would REALLY help me if you pre-ordered it (for free). What's My Set is a simple, accessibility set counter for workouts with accessibility as a priority. The handy rest/interval timers bump the set counter for you. apps.apple.com/us/app/whats...

🤫Feeling the eerie quiet after #WWDC26? Lets make some noise together again in November at SWIFTSONIC! 🎸We dropped SWIFTSONIC ROCKSTAR at WWDC where you can beat @swifteves.bsky.social in a guitar duel for a cheaper ticket! Think you can become rock royalty? 🕹️https://swiftsonicconf.com/rockstar/

Back to work after an incredible(ly exhausting) #WWDC! This was the year the community truly realized the dream of a full week loaded with events, even without a ticket! Huge thanks to @communitykit.social, @revenuecat.com, and so many more (even Apple!) for making this week so special

Thank you, Chris. Because of last week, plenty of plans are now underway. If you’d like to be in the loop, subscribe for free here: darylbaxter.com/springboard/...

Incredible writeup of @communitykit.social by @darylbaxter.com. This is a perfect example of the type of experience we were hoping people would have (for free) when we came up with the idea of CommunityKit. Thank you so so much Daryl!

I recently updated to Tahoe and I've gone from almost never hearing the fans on my M1 Pro to hearing them all the time. It seems to be AMPArtworkAgent taking up a big chunk of the CPU and quitting Apple Music stops it.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor @revenuecat.com, CommunityKit was able to provide some stellar breakfasts. I hate saying nice things about @benfreiband.bsky.social but he knocked it out of the park (go sports!) with his food orders.

Hell is airplane WiFi being just good enough to deliver an email stating that your layover could be severely delayed but just bad enough to prevent you from researching solutions/alternatives.

Shout out to @kaydacode.bsky.social. A few years ago during her talk at @deepdishswift.com she informed us that not supporting landscape mode is an accessibility issue. The changes I made in my apps to address that are saving me a lot of work now.

It’s already official. See you CommunityKit 2027!

@a2.co thank you for saying hello! Great to meet you.