In light of the current state of the world I've listed all US services my business depends on. My business is making native apps for Apple platforms, so I'm kinda locked in here. Other than that, the biggest dependencies are RevenueCat for subscription management and business analytics, Paddle […]

I have questions about this.

I'm currently watching Schitt's Creek and this rendition of Simply the Best by Noah Reid made me cry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFJpt559aU&pp=ygUJbm9haCByZWlk

My recent weekend project is live on the App Store. My family has a small tradition: every week we pick a random country and cook one of its signature dishes. This app is a tribute to that ritual, facilitating choosing a country, a dish and finding a recipe. Say hi to World of Noms! […]

I'm trying to open a new Business account on the Microsoft Partner Center. After entering all my data I'm getting an error (something about my request being blocked). It asks to open a support request. But doing that requires selecting a "Workspace" which I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My recent weekend project is live on the App Store. My family has a small tradition: every week we pick a random country and cook one of its signature dishes. This app is a tribute to that ritual, facilitating choosing a country, a dish and finding a recipe. Say hi to World of Noms! […]

Apparently people on Reddit liked one of my photos a lot, so I didn’t want you all to miss out on it 😅 #photography #blacksndwhite #architecture

This is a new record for me. I just submitted an app for review a bit more than 24 hours after having the idea. #indiedev #BuildInPublic

Since yesterday I am the proud owner of a rice cooker. I’m a changed man.

Double-vaxxed 💉🦠

Just listened to the last episode of Under the Radar. Now I'm a bit sad… Thanks @_Davidsmith and @marcoarment for all those years of interesting conversations and insights. You will be missed ❤️

I just scrolled through my impressively long list of alarms and found one that says „Bier!!“ (beer in German). I have no recollection of when and why I created this, but I like it 😅

I guess not much coding this week 😬

In @inyourface I'm still using localized strings files instead of an xcstrings catalog (for reasons). Translations are done with support of ChatGPT and until now I had to manually copy/paste the results into the files. Today I've made a little tool that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I just noticed something curious on the #appstore. In the latest update of @inyourface I wrote "Fix high CPU usage." in the What's new field. On the actual App Store it now says "Reduce CPU load." How is this even possible? #appstoreconnect #appdev #apple #macos

Covid and flu vaccine appointment booked ✅ 💉 🦠

Today I had great fun implementing a new setting that lets users choose how the event titles in @inyourface's menu item are truncated. It seems unimportant and could have been a simple radio button or popup menu. But this is so much nicer 😎 #BuildInPublic #indiedev #macos #macosdev

I've made a handy #swift file with constants for all unicode space characters like non-breaking space, em space etc.: https://gist.github.com/martinhoeller/fe7fd04dab618d48c3b226864b478930 #BuildInPublic #iosdev #macosdev

So the Mac App Store on #macos #tahoe has a fun glitch when used in German (not sure about other languages). The close button with the x icon on top left says "Taste" in the background, the German word for button 🙃

I legit would never be on time for a meeting without this app. Well worth the price. https://indieapps.space/@inyourface/115299154510458793

This is the same code using a SwiftUI .dropShadow. iPhone on the left, iPad on the right. Why is it so different? Am I holding it wrong? Both running on iOS/iPadOS 26. #swiftui #iosdev

It's a #beer and #code kinda day today. Cheers 🍻

I was sick of setting up my NSWindow styles using trial and error, so I created a small app to help me with that. Check out NSWindowPlayground here: https://github.com/martinhoeller/NSWindowPlayground/ #indiedev #swiftui #macdev #BuildInPublic

I was sick of setting up my NSWindow styles using trial and error, so I created a small app to help me with that. Check out NSWindowPlayground here: https://github.com/martinhoeller/NSWindowPlayground/ #indiedev #swiftui #macdev #BuildInPublic

Mac App Store being funny today #macos26 #apple

Anyone else having troubles signing in with their #chatgpt account in #xcode 26?

The last weeks I was mainly concerned with launch preparations, updating the website, making screenshot etc. Now that @inyourface for iOS is finally out I can again focus on what is most fun: working on new features!

What fresh hell is this now? #xcode

Fun times. The iOS app has been rejected. It requires iOS 26 and they tested on iOS 18 🤦. How is it even possible?

New version of @inyourface for Mac with fixes for #macos26 and the redesigned main menu also submitted for review ✅

@inyourface for iOS version 1.0 submitted for review 🤞

While waiting for the announcement of the iOS 26 release dates later today, I'm busy updating @inyourface for macOS a bit. I'm in the middle a complete rewrite of the main menu. This will give me much more flexibility to improve the app and implement new […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Working hard on getting everything ready for the @inyourface for iOS #launch. ✅ App development ✅ TestFlight beta ✅ Announcement trailer ✅ App Store assets ✅ Update press kit ⏳ Prepare marketing material ⏳ Prepare website ⏳ Prepare #producthunt launch #indiedev #ios26 #adhd

RIP #ozzyosbourne. The first thing I ever bought on Amazon was the Paranoid album on CD, ca. 1998 with my dad‘s credit card.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Hey peeps at @revenuecat, was this change to the transactions table done on purpose? I have to scroll all the way to the right now to see the transaction type. This is quite annoying.

Today I increased the default font size in Mail app on the Mac. I'm officially getting old 😬

#lifehack: When going to flee markets I often have doubts about what stuff is worth. I made a shortcut that lets me enter a search term and then opens an eBay search in the browser, filtered for sold items. Like this I can quickly get an idea bout the value of items.

This year I really couldn’t care less about what will be announced at #wwdc25. I just hope Apple won’t mess up my and everyone else’s businesses too much.

I've been toying with analog photography recently and holy moly this is an expensive hobby. Total cost of buying, developing and getting a single roll of standard color film with 36 exposures digitized is 32€. Imagine you had to pay 1€ for each photo you take on your phone 😂

I'm so fed up with #Reddit… I've now got shadow banned with two accounts and I have absolutely no idea why. With my new account I've commented on 7 posts, no self promotion. The only time I talked about my business is when it was explicitly requested. It almost seems like Reddit doesn't want any […]

I wonder what flavor it is

I just got to the bottom of a bad #bug in @inyourface. A recent update was rejected by #appstore review because it had the Address Book entitlement without actually using it. I removed it and the version went live. Soon after I started getting complaints about the app hanging. Turns out I was […]

Promo code generation on App Store Connect is still broken after 3 days. Is it only me? #apple #appstore #macdev #iosdev

I learned some things about ASO and they seem to work 😳 #indiedev #appstore

This is a complete joke. Apple really needs to get their shit together.

Can someone at Apple please reboot the promo code server?

I went on a stupid walk for my stupid mental health and I didn't take any pictures of it.

It's been years since we have the camera notch now on MacBooks and #apple still doesn't address the issue of hidden menu icons. This is such a bad UX and causes a lot of unnecessary support requests for @inyourface 😠 #indiedev #rant #ux