tiny reminder: there will be people who read your error messages and are trying to figure out wth is going wrong -> please include enough info for the user to be able to solve it or report an issue so you can fix it! this is from Final Cut Pro and it makes zero sense 👇

My entrance into 100% private, offline, fast, efficient, accurate transcription: Utterly is available on the App Store! apps.apple.com/nl/app/utte... PS: macOS version is cooking, will be out sometime next week!

*Checking in as a software engineer* I can't be bothered to scroll through a whole list of country extensions when it's always: did they write it as "Netherlands", "The Netherlands", "Holland"...?

I'm researching ai meeting note-taking tools, and apparently fireflies tracks how fast people speak in a meeting (?) :D

At least posponing is an option ><

some icky marketing, something is profoundly wrong with this framing

Avoid your iOS app from getting rejected: if your app offers auto-renewable subscriptions, you _need_ to include a link to your app's Terms to the App Description (yes, just text). Apple's has standard EULA, so you can just link that!

how ironic is that one of the best security- and privacy-focused mobile os’s runs exclusively on google pixel phones? 😅

getting my mind blown by how invasive the latest android version is wrt privacy and how based grapheneos is on the other side

blazingly fast offline dictation unlocked 🔓 ✅ "Utterly" is in the App Store review for iOS; macOS version coming soon!

Exactly 24h ago I thought I needed ~1.5h to finish up the App Store listing 😂 🥲

Utterly is under review 🙌 Preparing an app for an App Store review is such a sprint-marathon 😩

Does anyone know if there is a way to go around the WKWebView cold start delays for a webapp wrapped in an iOS native shell? First start is painfully slow, and I don't really see any framework being able to optimise it beyond pre-warming or WKProcessPool

POV: your todo list is 1 year old 🤨 🧐 🤔????

±4% of iPhone 14's CPU is how much it takes to run state of the art live transcription! ps: Transcripto will be out soon, I'm back

StackOverflow got eaten, end of an era

I'm working with transcripts a lot lately, @jedutchy asked me if we could improve podcast listening experience for language learners... I said: "Check this out 😊:

What are your best Siri hacks? Or other voice assistants I’ll start: asking Siri to set timers like “<activate Siri> timer 10 minutes” and adding calendar appointments “dentist at 3pm on <this date>” These save me hundreds of taps per week for sure!

I disable notifications by default on all apps because they're being abused for ads and spam with upgrade requests. I take users' trust to allow notifications seriously and my apps will never send spam/ads, only genuinly useful updates!

State of polish: Transcripto will notify you when transcription is done, and warn you if there is a risk iOS will stop the transcription in the background (for very long files) 😎 ps, there is a way to let the transcription run longer, in the background but

Some companies leave messages in browser developer tools, like: - Threads: warning about self-xxs (you can lose auth cookies by pasting malicious js code into console!) - Airbnb & Medium: hiring ads 😄 I recall there were more companies that did this, but can't find rn 🤔

A few posts of mine got some attention on Threads, so my wife @jedutchy got competitive, started posting a lot more, and actually managed got double my views in the last 2 weeks 👏🙌🥳

From time to time Meta releases something cool, I think their SegmentAnythingModel (SAM) is a great contribution to the OS community: ai.meta.com/blog/sam-au...

What's up with google having soo many ways to interact with their models? (gemini, Flow, aistudio, notebookLM... other?)

Did you know that you're missing out on 75% of iOS users if you only support iOS 26? By supporting iOS 18, you can 10x (!) your potential users, and if you go lower you can cover pretty much all devices. ps: iosref(.)com has cool iOS stats, shoutout to the author @eugenemsp

Apps are like 5% core functionality and 95% polish ✌️

Actually, here it is, Transcripto can now transcribe audio messages shared from WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal 😎 (at the very least!) (sorry, my phone is in Dutch for learning purposes haha)

Optimised Transcripto's launch time to the point that "Loading models" now looks like a bug 😄 Will be removing the model loading screen after the first launch (during the first launch Apple Neural Engine needs to compile the weights for that particular device, takes ±20s)

Left my laptop for a sec while Claude Code was churning, and came back to this 👀 😊

Coreml model storage format is crazy efficient, this bundles a full Parakeet v3 0.6B model. If you wanna run it locally with python's apple silicone framework the model alone is 2.5GB

They built a VR contraption for rats and it actually worked! Wow ratsplaydoom.com/ I really admire practical engineering, so simple and to the point! they even trained rats to shoot, which is slightly concerning haha

Transcripto's live captions for 🇳🇱 Dutch are nearly flawless, and pretty much realtime, Dutch learners, you'll soon have quality subtitles for any audio on your laptop or phone! it also works for 25 languages other languages (on iPhones too) mac/ios app is coming soon ✌️😄

Transcription is working at ~100x ⚡️ realtime speed both on Macbook Pro M2 as well as iPhone 14 ✌️ Still ironing out the kinks in token streaming / audio chunking, but it's really coming together! I got suuper granular timestamps too - per token, super cool tech

Seems like the only way to ensure ultimate performance and UX is to build things internally: parakeet 0.6B coreml model loads in 160ms ⚡️ After ANE cache, of course Goal -> build the fastest/most accurate _realtime/live_ transcription app out there ✌️

iOS devs, I got a question: what’s the fastest/most reliable way to get realtime transcriptions on iOS 17+? I’ve gotten mixed success with FluidAudio (parakeet), doesn’t seem like the accuracy is high enough. iOS 26’s transcription is pretty good, but older devices are out…

Since when is it a crime to sign up with email on your own domain name? 😕 KlingAI giving this warning, ensuring pretty bad UX for power users, seemingly in the name of preventing abuse of their free tier/sign up offer? It's not complicated to get gmail/yahoo emails these days ><

Just found another Privacy Policy page for Gemini products, seems like there are some controls, but oh my, I can't imagine anyone actually being able to stay on top of these

Asked Claude Opus 4.5 to analyse all of Gemini's privacy policies wrt training their AI on the code that you provide as a user - reasonably sure they can do it regardless of the settings 🤷

I start to think that Cursor sometimes forces devs to update with interface glitches or maybe it's just me having 29 projects open in parallel... ? ✌️ 😅

From first commit to published app in 11 days 😌✌️

It _is_ viable to have a fully on-device conversational translation app... Getting Duettio ready for release ✌️ 🫰

Offline transcription got so much better on Apple, I wonder if it's viable to have a fully on-device conversational translator app with Apple's builtin models 🤔

"Templateur" got approved today, so my first app is live on the App Store ☺️ apps.apple.com/nl/app/temp...

🤞 First app is under review 🫰

Getting back into posting, log #day_1: Today was all about polishing a new app for the app store: Templateur (make PDF templates for printing and digital journalling) -> it's ready for Apple's review! What did I do today? --> ✅ Debugged responsive layout for iPad's multitasking

If you ever juggled browsers/tabs when comparing production and dev versions of your app, this might be for you - ProductDiff is coming together!

So, I've been cooking some iOS apps, and I'll soon have my Testflight and hopefully first apps published 🙌 🫰 #buildinpublic

fyi I'm still doing the 30 apps in 30 Days #buildinpublic challenge: making iOS apps for the first time - for monologger.app (notes with voice) as well as duettio.com (realtime dual conversation translation tool). I think they both deserve to be native apps :) Here's the state of Monologger 👇

Day 24 of 30 Apps in 30 Days: meet timetutor.org, app that helps you practice telling time in different languages! Dutch is LIVE, you can practice for free, and sign up for counting your streak and other stats :) Signing off ✌️ #buildinpublic #indiechacker #netherlands

Made an uptime status page for all of my projects for 30 Apps in 30 Days projects here: upstill.dev/monitors/sta... You can have one like this too! And also for any of your websites too, for free ;)