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Aleksandar Vacić

@aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Very opinionated. iOS apps. Espresso. Moto GP. Formerly: winery owner, web developer. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@aleck, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Stops being funny when you learn that Marx was a useless jerk who lived off other people’s money. Primarily Engels’ money. x.com/kristof_poland/status/2097969…

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Claude tells me I should not use squash merge from main into feature branches. Bleh.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I have a feeling something weird has happened recently in macOS related to git . I am used to automatic merge of git branches with very little conflicts, usually none. But since last 2-3 weeks, almost every merge shows conflicts. When I open the offending files in a diff tool like Kaleidoscope […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I can't believe that largest video service on the planet can't resolve this shit, for years. I am logged-in with a at-gmail.com account and also an account using Google Apps for biz. At some point during that they lose track which of those logged-in accounts […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

🤨🧐 256GB is new minimum, it seems, with all these models and auxiliary stuff.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@chockenberry/11729… Nobody should use Mac App Store. Nobody.

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

#nsspain2026 starts.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The thing I love about visiting wine areas like Logroño, Rioja — you sit at a random bar, order “vino rojo” and you get 2020 Crianza. 💯 As in — awesome wine is default. I have no idea who is the maker but it’s lovely silky red with black fruits exploding on your palate.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

On train from Barcelona to Logroño. It’s amazing how much of the terrain is covered with newly-seeded orchards. It’s also notable how much empty space is still available, currently being rather bleak, only dotted with shrubs.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

JIRA web UI is completely useless without stable internet connection, isn’t it..? 😮‍💨

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Looking closer to iPhone Duo spec and it seems it has the same typical “1st of its kind” device from Apple. When they started developing this, they fixed the stuff not exclusive to decide (like camera) and then developed the rest around it. Back camera system seems from iPhone 16 era which […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@pasi heh…any agency, making apps for clients with in-house design teams covering web, Android and iOS with same design, will have stories of struggle to tell. Stories.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I watched few of the design videos for iPhone Duo. Every little bit of animation and transition is pure joy. Amazing work.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Oh man, it’s going to be so fun to adapt custom rigid layouts in some of the apps I work on, for iPhone Duo. 😮‍💨

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

So far, 18 Pro looks like excellent evolution; exactly what it needs to keep its lead. Camera improvements are quite something.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I just bought amazing McKinley app (SF Symbols editor) and noticed that purchase/register license process is really slick. It's a service called amore.computer and from this experience it's just fantastic. Payment was done through Stripe's Link which only needed my email to re-fetch my […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

How does one resets this stupid list in Xcode..? "Launching MBCY" was several days ago but it's still shown there.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

This is slightly less terrifying but still nauseating: medium.com/@alonhertz1/data-became-… All the decades spent tightening up security practices became deprecated by widespread use of clever AI […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

One day you are in Istria, eating raw marinated sea food. Next day you are in a town in continental Serbian mountains eating sheep-meat burgers on “kajmak” (skimmed milk fat). My digestive system: 🫣😮‍💨😓 #vacation sadly over.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Utterly terrifying. www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingfa…

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: social.lol/@neatnik/117119907086796… Takes like this are given from such a privileged position in life and place on the planet. They are resembling valid stance only if you live somewhere where you have plethora of mass media sources. When you have a choice. If you don’t (like […]

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Pasi Salenius @pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

What an amazing runtime crash. “Found it. This is a framework name collision with Xcode itself. /Applications/Xcode-26.6.0.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/HexFiend.framework exists — Xcode ships its own build of HexFiend (388 KB, exports no HF* ObjC classes at all, so nothing like HFByteTheme) […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

arc.dev seems like the newest Toptal... I always wondered are these hire-best-talent companies worth the trouble.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

A bit of “why the hell not” decision to attend this year’s @nsspain conference. I wanted to come back multiple times since my first visit in 2017 but there was always something that came up. This year looked to be similar story until few weeks ago but thankfully things cleared up 🤞🏻 All tickets […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@xjki what’s that novel..? I see it mentioned several times but I’m missing the context.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Evisceration of SwiftUI. ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of…

SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity: Will it ever stop feeling like a beta? — Yakov Manshin

Back in 2019, SwiftUI was announced as the future of Apple development. Seven years later, it still feels like a beta version struggling with stability, performance, and many other aspects. What’s actually wrong with SwiftUI?

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

youtu.be/QmS7WuI9u40?si=AtStAJo0TWQ… Writers seem determined to humanize Orcs. 😮‍💨 even more than in S02. I am all for creative freedom of interpretation but that is against everything that is core of the Tolkien mythology. Makes no sense and it’s making me reluctant to watch […]

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Pasi Salenius @pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Over the summer I built a vector tile rendering pipeline to my topo map app Maptrails. I can pretty confidently say it’s the best and most accurate map there is for Finland right now. The update is available today.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

www.whatcable.uk This is one the most useful and feature full utility apps I have seen in quite a while. Absolute bargain.

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do

Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English. Featured in The Verge, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The Odyssey is *amazing* movie. Wow.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Based on all this, I am now at: anything below 2TB internal hard drive is untenable for actual development. I moved DerivedData and Archives and Compilation Cache to external drive but no option in Xcode Preferences to do the same with CoreSimulator. Anyone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Back in the comfort of my regular office, I somehow miss the temporary make shift one with that view toward Kotor Bay #montenegro

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I made this app over a decade ago, written in Objective C. Last update was in 2015 and after there was not much to do with the original concept and app was on cruise control. Then in 2018, Apple requested a mandatory update to go through the App Review. Due to amount of client work, it was […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Second app successfully resurrected: Unitica is back on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/unitica/id717659… This is complete rewrite in Swift UI, with Liquid Glass UI. I started working on this few months back; took me a lot of experimenting to find layout that did not poke me in the […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Today is apparently not a good day to manage IAPs on AppStore Connect. (endless reloads, empty content…)

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Huh, some progress. 👌🏻 Last night I applied for a consultation with App Review team on developer portal, citing this app’s limbo status as topic to discuss. I don’t know if that moved the needle or my second message to App Review Board a day before it but it was finally looked up by them. Few […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

This is the main reason I believe the issue is some status filtering code somewhere in App Store backend. I uploaded the build to Test Flight, it appears in the related iOS app but tap on Install button leads to attached dialog message. Further to this — I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Still no response from Apple. I sent messages to App Review Board and received nothing in response (so far). It seems that if Apple ever removed your app from App Store for reason of “not sending regular updates” that app is…gone. It’s not deleted but it seems to dwell in some sort of limbo.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@macrumors/11688975… There is literally a whole Black Mirror episode about why this is a terrible idea.

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

@mackuba.eu I can definitely understand the frustration. I have been on the customer's side of that story where I felt that asking price is more than it's worth it to me. It took me a lot of will power to not vent to developers "why are you so greedy" when it's actually my decision entirely […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

We'll see if Apple's backend keeps reference to this 8 year old threads 🫣

AppStore connect screenshot of communication with App Review staff.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

This is likely one of the best articles I’ve read arguing for subscription-based software business model. www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/just-pay-the…

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Just Pay the Subscription

Subscription mobile apps are actually good and you should stop complaining

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Waiting for Review enters day 3. I don’t recall when was the last time this happened for any of the apps I am working for. Maybe apps that were previously removed from sale for a while now enter some very long queue 😕

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@nikitonsky oh, they finally picked up the same panel that’s already available elsewhere and pack it up inside Apple’s old design look. It’s pricier than ROG Strix with same specs.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Since I am resurrecting some of my old apps from dusty basement, I had to bring back Radiant Tap’s privacy policy back to the current site. radianttap.com/privacy I strive to build apps in such a way that have zero interactions between me and customer data. Any data related to […]

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@pxlnv/116875773816… This is really unfortunate but perfectly understandable from Sam's perspective.

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Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Then we also have CoreSimulator taking 140GB. Jolly.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Well, that's just dandy. 200GB taken by runtime assets.

Aleksandar Vacić @aleck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

My simple currency converter lives on, in Liquid Glass world. apps.apple.com/app/banca-currency-c… Was quite nice working on this one. My favorite part of the app is formatting of the currency values. It’s my second app with this design language but first that’s […]

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Amen! weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/f… Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile. If squircled icons are actually better, then […]

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