New boxes of real-life Festivitas just arrived 🎄😄

Oh, the weather outside is frightful... ❄️ Soon 🎄

A new sign that Christmas is just around the corner.

Just hit a HUGE milestone for this year’s Festivitas update 🎄😃 Small things are coming… 🤗 ❌🗓️ November 25th

Either macOS Tahoe, Xcode 26, or a combination of them broke my Mac's audio back in June. The only fix is running `sudo killall coreaudiod` several times a day. Others are seeing it too. It has been months and Apple still hasn’t fixed it. Their software quality is spiraling down.

ChatGPT Atlas kicks off the “every IDE needs a coding agent integrated” phase of web browsers. openai.com/index/intro...

Idea for a Mac app: run any app in picture-in-picture. Sometimes I just want to keep an eye on something, like Terminal or Slack, while writing or watching a video. Pick a window and have a live mirror of it in the corner.

Let's do 133 slides in 35 minutes! 🚀

Get ready for an inspiring deep dive! 💡 At #MobileWarsaw100, Simon B. Støvring - creator of Runestone, Scriptable & Data Jar - will show how Pure Dependency Injection and the Composition Root Pattern lead to cleaner, more testable Swift apps. 📱🚀 🔥 mobilewarsaw.pl/100?s=b

Reached Warsaw and thus ready for Mobile Warsaw tomorrow! 🇵🇱✌️

SPENT THE WEEKEND ADDING MOOOOAAAR LIGHTS TO FESTIVITAS. STAY TUNED 🎄

Never do something in 1 hour that you can automate in 3 hours.

Help me out, Bluesky. I need XY coordinates of widgets on iPhone and iPad Home Screens for all zoom levels, orientations, and icon sizes. I’ve done iPhones on iOS 26, but the thought of doing Pads and more iOS versions is killing me. Is there a faster way than screenshots and measuring?

SO WHEN DO PEOPLE PUT UP THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ASKING FOR A FRIEND ALSO ASKING BECAUSE I HAVE SOME CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TO PUT UP IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN 🎄

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know not to answer Slack messages on my days off.

📝 New blog post alert! I share some early thoughts on apps for ChatGPT, along with a few experiences building my first ChatGPT app and what this could mean for businesses. 👇 framna.com/insights/ap...

I built my first ChatGPT app! 🚀 It connects with my Philips Hue lights so I can control them directly from ChatGPT. After logging in with my Hue account, I can view the status of my lights and control them with natural language. Here’s a short demo 👇

My calendar after OpenAI announced apps in ChatGPT 🚀

Can we have all-time favorite slides, and can this be mine?

I like to have multiple versions of my talk so I can slide into any time slot at a meetup or conference. Time to rehearse that 30-min presentation again, so I'm ready later this month 😃

If you’re in doubt about getting your AirPods engraved, here’s your reason: the engraving shows up in iOS. Such a nice detail! 🤩

Life’s been busy, so today was the first time I tried my golf stroke counter on Apple Watch… and it worked surprisingly well 😀🏌️‍♂️

Which companies and developers should I keep an eye on in the AI/AR glasses space? Looking for some that are building products for glasses.

Taking a short break from my side project this weekend to tinker with some Festivitas ideas. It’s beginning to look a lot like… 🎄 Too early for Christmas music, or the right vibe to get into Festivitas mode?

TIL that a widget extension’s process may handle an App Intent used in a Shortcuts action if the intent is available to the extension (e.g. it’s in a package the extension depends on) and your app is terminated 🤯 (Tested on iOS 26)

Say what you want about Meta, but if this leak is true, we’re about to see some exciting technology. 9to5google.com/2025/09/15/m...

I don’t have an exciting app update ready for you today, but I did update Runestone for iOS 26 the other day. Go get it 🤗👇 apps.apple.com/dk/app/runes...

I'm probably the last person on Earth to buy YouTube Premium, but I just did. Maybe it'll last, maybe it won't, but right now I just can't take any more betting ads.

iOS 26 RC. This happens to the keyboard maybe 1 out of 10 times it’s shown.

Airplane WiFi didn’t let me down!

iPhones keep getting bigger, and as an iOS developer you’re probably using a Pro or the new Air as your daily driver. If you’re not careful, your UI won’t look good on smaller devices. Make it a habit to test on them. Maybe even make the iPhone 13 mini simulator your default.

Hello Vienna! 🇦🇹👋

I haven’t really been following the rumor mill this year, but I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone speculate that they’ll call this year’s iPhone the ‘iPhone 26’

All I want from the iPhone 17 is for it to have Snoopy screen savers.

Excited to be heading to Vienna next week for a Claude Code meetup! 🇦🇹 It’s intriguing to me that meetups are beginning to form around these tools. It’ll be great to meet up with other developers who are exploring the tools.

All SwiftUI codebases should have a view modifier like this. gist.github.com/simonbs/5c37...

Today we're welcoming Bright Inventions, the leading mobile studio in Poland, to the Framna organization. I can't help but wonder: do I already know some amazing developers working at Bright Inventions? 😃 brightinventions.pl/blog/bright-...

Today it hit me what I need to do with Festivitas this year. I'm not sure if it can be done, but I need to give it a shot. Tease, tease 🎄

Runestone on iPadOS 26 😍

Runestone 🤝 Progressive Blur

My third Ed Sheeran concert. I’m SOOOO ready!

Looking for a service that estimates monthly app downloads by country for any app, not just mine, and doesn’t cost a fortune. Any recommendations?

I’ve just open-sourced SBSObservation. It reimplements Apple’s Observation framework and backports it to iOS 12 with similar internals and a more ergonomic API. The code is for inspiration and learning, provided as-is with no guarantees. github.com/simonbs/SBS...

Spent a few evenings building a super simple golf stroke counter for Apple Watch. I can set names for two players (me and the player I’m marking), track strokes, and reset between holes. Everything stays saved locally until I clear it. Can’t wait to try it out on the course! 🏌️‍♂️

Commuting to work is a lot more fun when you do it like this 🛩️🌊

Claude Code keeps teaching me SwiftUI modifiers I didn’t know about. Today I learned about `transformAnchorPreference(key:value:)`.

We’ve been roasting the new macOS 26 app icons. Totally fair. But can we take a second to appreciate the new icon for Instruments? 😍

I need a grief group for all of us trying to build a Mac-assed Mac app using SwiftUI.

Finished the first season of Poker Face. It’s a modern-day Columbo with a similar jargon, humor, and warmth. www.imdb.com/title/tt1426...

First time on the 18-hole course today after finishing the first two phases of the beginner program. In phase three we only play the first nine holes, but it’s such a fun way to spend a couple of hours in great weather 🏌️‍♂️☀️