Get excited! 😁 It’s the new year so it’s time to get going on Deep Dish Swift 2026 speakers and schedule! First keynote speaker announcement coming tomorrow… 👀

Adding a new entry to the list of things I didn't know about but should have. 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.avanderlee.com/xcode/xcode-...

I'm looking at some AI generated code and very very naughty for assuming a day is always 86400 seconds.

Fun digital watch faces with the (horizontal) digital time in the center of the watch face. What a concept! One day we’ll have this on the regular Apple Watch? 😑

Patiently waiting for the family to stop discussing whatever football game just happened.

It always amuses me when I find old comments from when I was so confused about what was going on with dates I was seeing. I was neck deep in time zone hell but didn't realize it yet. ⏰

Hello. Just some casual news today. THERE IS A NEW SWIFT CONFERENCE COMING THIS YEAR

Just hit a nasty issue that I’m not sure I can do anything about. When you use Image Playground to create an image in Please Don't Rain I move it to the documents dir from the temp storage. Obviously I’ve created a lot of images over time to test. (1/3)

This is embarrassing, but I had no idea that you could run Xcode SwiftUI previews on device. So nice for my VoiceOver testing!

I've been debating how to have VoiceOver read the data points for a new section I'm adding to Please Don't Rain for sun events. I asked on @[email protected] and a couple of users suggesting a setting for more/less verbose. I'm experimenting with adding it. #accessibility

Dutch exposing more of my crimes.

Someone didn't handle their buttons with lots of text properly. 🫣 Fixed it with a .buttonBorderShape of .roundedRectangle when accessibility text sizes are in use and .automatic otherwise.

Apple Music gets me.

German was already my go to language for testing long words but now that I'm adding support for Dutch.... (yes I know about Double Length Pseudolanguage)

Because I have @fireatwill12.bsky.social in my contacts sometimes iOS swipe typing refuses to use “will” and won’t even offer it as a suggestion. But it suggests “Weill” even though there’s nobody named that in my contacts. 😵‍💫

Thankful for my loved ones, my health, and the fact I won’t have to hear that Mariah Carey Christmas song again after tomorrow.

Very appropriate gift for this year!

iPad gets no love from the Apple Pay App Clip dialog. 😔 (yes I am last minute shopping)

Tell me you're not used to dealing with cold weather without telling me you're not used to dealing with cold weather.

This UI in Marvel Snap for sending a message has got to be one of the strangest designs I’ve seen in a long time. The largest button that should be your primary action? It deletes everything that you just typed.

It's that time of the year again. goshdarnifcaseletsyntax.com

Just spotted this lovely UI with a relative using Google Photos (iOS). They don't even have accessibility text sizes enabled. 😭

Previously you couldn’t use an app in Slide Over unless the app supported iPad. I just tried the Bluesky app with iPadOS 26.2 and it worked in Slide Over. 🤯

TIL that if you turn off Windowed Apps on your iPad you lose the ability to run portrait-only apps in landscape mode.

TIL that my PS4 controller will work for playing my PS5 remotely via my iPad. 🤯

I just spent an hour debugging a weird time zone issue. I'm thinking a conference talk about time zones issues could be something I would do well at.

Considering I couldn't even play Expedition 33 when it launched (text size) I love seeing this level of commitment from studios.

Leveling up as a developer is great but I now have to fight the urge to rewrite big chunks of my app that work fine but could have been done so much better. 😑

With iOS 18 Apple added historical comparisons to WeatherKit. I never got around to adding support for it. Details about it online are scarce and some of the code in the WWDC video isn't valid any more. I'm making pretty good progress getting it working. (UI won't look like this in final build)

I got a response from Apple to some feedback that I filed and was feeling pretty clueless because I did not remember it at all. Then I noticed that I submitted it in 2022. 😊

1,000 times this. Several commands I used to use often just don't work any more.

I think I just found a nasty Xcode translation issue. I'm adding support for English Canada (en-CA) to my app and realized there's a problem with the new Xcode 26 functionality that generates symbols for manually added strings. (1/2)

I'm adding a new chart and hit a strange Swift Charts issue. If the Y-axis data is all zeros then the Y-axis gets flipped! Specifying a chartYScale seems to be the solution. .chartYScale(domain: 0...(yValues.last ?? 1), type: .linear)

Get it Danny!

I'm going back and addressing some bad behavior on my part thanks to the String Catalog enhancements we got this year at WWDC.

Shout out to @frankefoster.com for letting me know that Expedition 33 finally added accessibility settings that let me read their tiny UI text.

Park hopping at Walt Disney World is no joke!

I've had an absolutely terrible month, but how can you not feel happy looking at Living With The Land at Epcot decorated for the holidays?

I’m in a long line where rival football people have spotted each other because of the garments they are wearing and are legitimately screaming insults at each other. Is this what hell is like?

Another example of the type of watch face I want for my Apple Watch. mastodon.online/@Tinrocket/1...

I've been busy but now had time to finish up this release with better language support. Enjoy your colours and favourites!

What!!!!!!!

My mom loves baking but has been resistant to getting a kitchen stand mixer. This year I pretty much said "You're getting a KitchenAid for Christmas. Enjoy!" We cheated and had her use it for the first time today and within 5 minutes she was in love with it. 😀

Speechless. Art of Fauna won the App Store Award in Cultural Impact 🫶 Check it out here: apps.apple.com/app/apple-st... #AppStoreAwards #ArtOfFauna

How can something so stressful (Arc Raiders) be so fun? I had the best loot I've ever had but thought there was 0% chance I could keep it. Time was running out, I had a pitiful loadout, and I don't know this map. I can't believe I pulled this off.

Perfect balance

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

Fell asleep with my cat on my lap. Said cat then got startled by a loud noise on the TV and launched herself off of me, with her claws using my skin as a launching mechanism. How is your day going?

@amro.dev are we going to resist buying more Anker products?

Find someone that loves you like Apple loves analog watch faces.