iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 28/09/2026

We recorded this episode earlier in the month. But just because time is an arrow, press kits are forever! Find out how @thedrewbenson.bsky.social and I made press kits to showcase our iOS27 app updates. youtu.be/j0vQMSurEQI?... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Making a Press Kit

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 28/09/2026

Rate my onboarding. Aka “Where would you delete my app?” Page one or page two?

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 26/09/2026

Call me when App Store Connect gets dark mode.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 23/09/2026

Part of a discussion over products and services gathering your data.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 21/09/2026

Someone is throwing away a perfectly good fermenter.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 16/09/2026

4 stages of San Diego. Yes I always eat this healthy.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 15/09/2026

This might be obvious to everyone but me, but creating a new project with Vapor 5 places a "+" symbol before the console-kit package import which makes Xcode very upset. Delete it and you're off to the races.

lines of code with a red arrow pointing to a small plus (+) symbol at the far left side.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 13/09/2026

I wrote a blog post about App Store Sever Notifications using Vapor, and a touch of SwiftUI. certainlyswift.com/server-side-...

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App Store Server Notifications with Vapor

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 10/09/2026

10 years of development and this is the first time I've had an app update ready to go before the new iOS release date.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 02/09/2026

@gans.lena.fancygoose.dev Since I can't send pictures in DM I wanted to follow up here about the sticker pack icons. These are the included assets in my sticker pack. I'm guessing today you could just include the 1024x1024 icon, but I haven't touched this project in a while.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 26/08/2026

Siri can now handle location check-ins in my app. Still some refinements to make, but I may have gotten a reasonable hold on AppIntents.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 26/08/2026

With the release of Episode 10, @thedrewbenson.bsky.social and I are now podcast veterans! We celebrate this rare milestone of two guys talking about software development in a podcast. Also these are the glasses generating most of the user feedback. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 23/08/2026

Good morning @goodbinary.bsky.social! And everyone else too…but I’m pretty sure Gary is awake right now.

A yellow cup on a table with a book behind it. In the background there is a blue chair and a tall house plant.

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Franklin Byaruhanga @byaruhaf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Too many indie developers worry about how many apps are published to the App Store each day. Wrong problem. The App Store is a distribution mechanism. It's no longer a discovery tool. Growth comes from marketing outside the App Store, not from being listed inside it.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 22/08/2026

The weather tonight is windy, cold and raining. But it’s Reykjavík Culture Night and the weather isn’t stopping anyone from celebrating tonight in the city.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 22/08/2026

My daughter and I absolutely crushed our Reykjavík 3k today. Meanwhile my wife is absolutely dominating the full marathon.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 22/08/2026

The way I fumble through the descriptions of a framework is very similar to my entire development process. youtu.be/WtnzEutTtEk?...

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Adding Siri Integration to a Location Check-In App

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 22/08/2026

Though still infrequent, I’m starting to see more posts from people around the world using my app The Midst. I swore it was flatlined on the App Store, but something in late May woke up the discoverability.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 19/08/2026

With AppIntents on iOS27 Beta, if I have more than two AppShortcuts one of them gets dropped when using Siri to trigger the shortcut. They all work correctly using the Shortcuts iOS app however. Is anyone else working with AppShortcuts right now and seeing similar behavior?

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 19/08/2026

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 18/08/2026

Regarding AppIntents: If you add a `requestValueDialog` to your AppIntent Parameter, Siri will actually say what you type there. Otherwise she seems to just say "Which one?". At least for the case of picking from an AppEnum.

AppIntent code with a red arrow pointing to a parameter line named "requestValueDialog" with a string value entered.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 16/08/2026

Update: It wasn't a bug, it was a typo. "inflect" ≠ "inflict"

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 16/08/2026

Whoops! Found an iOS27 bug in my app. “^[0 photo](inflict true) added” is definitely not what I want for my UI.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 16/08/2026

Just in time for your Saturday night! Episode 9 of Drew and Dan in the Morning just dropped. Learn about AppIntents and hear about ways to hack a 737 (please don’t). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/2Kd88P8dwTQ?...

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App Intents and 737 Hacks

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 15/08/2026

I had a local artist create a new App Icon for my Relay Team Finder app. My own attempt is in the reply, but I'm very happy with this new version.

Hand drawn shoes of green, teal, purple and blue all pointing inward around a maritime looking compass.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 14/08/2026

New nerd level unlocked. Podcast editing with audio eq as I’m really trying to get the audio levels balanced between @thedrewbenson.bsky.social and me.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 13/08/2026

Another exciting episode of Drew and Dan in the Morning is coming soon! As soon as editing is complete... I mean, just look at my face and how excited it is.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 10/08/2026

When you reach your late 40’s don’t forget to buy your mom a new iPad and take her out to lunch. She’ll appreciate it. Oh and set up the iPad for her…of course.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 09/08/2026

If I sold ad spots on my app they would be for Costco and Puppy Yoga.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 07/08/2026

I like that this clip starts with @thedrewbenson.bsky.social talking about blueberries.

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Andrew Benson @thedrewbenson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Force Unwraps and CloudKit Pitfalls With Drew and Dan Full episode: youtu.be/Bjlr_BPTUSM Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drew-…

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 03/08/2026

Here's a clip from Drew and Dan in the morning where @thedrewbenson.bsky.social and I talk about privacy tradeoffs in products and software. youtu.be/ESURzIfNHqA?...

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Tesla, Smart Devices, and the Privacy Trade-offs We Accept

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 01/08/2026

A weekend in the Pacific Northwest includes a Friday hike and a Saturday 10k. I’m taking the rest of the weekend off.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 30/07/2026

Drew and I have been busy releasing another episode of Drew and Dan in the Morning. Episode 8! We're also playing around with some new album art for the podcast, here's one concept. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 28/07/2026

A clip waaaay back from Episode 1 of Drew and Dan in the Morning! Ahh how young we were...3 months ago. I just completed editing Ep. 8 a few minutes ago.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 22/07/2026

Incredible! I also built a social network without algorithms or ads. I raised exactly $0.0M. apps.apple.com/us/app/the-m...

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 20/07/2026

Wide Angle Coffee would be a good name for a coffee shop, but this one is called Base Camp.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 19/07/2026

Ordered a bunch of magnets to do some guerrilla marketing at running events for my new app. Now I only need to find some guerrillas.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 14/07/2026

When @thedrewbenson.bsky.social and I get together, it's always morning! Drew and Dan in the Morning is back with another episode where I get a little fired up about online identity verification. But do the tools lock us in? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/hYF-xvJWIco?...

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The Cost of Our Tools: How much is too much?

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 12/07/2026

Downtown Albuquerque is one hell of a vibe. The buildings, people and cars are a trip to a dusty and nearly forgotten south west. But they are serving up some Legit Detroit style pizza at the 505 Central Food Hall. Incidentally, “Version Not Supported” is appropriate.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 12/07/2026

Are you Fluent in Vapor Migrations? Learn the secret behind that pun in my latest blog post. certainlyswift.com/vapor-migrat...

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Vapor Migrations

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 12/07/2026

Just a regular night in a hotel, this is all perfectly normal. Also a new blog post is coming soon discussing Vapor / Fluent Migrations.

A laptop and an iPad and another iPad on a desk

The leather case, a mobile router, a Raspberry Pi computer, and a bunch of wires on a bedside table

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 09/07/2026

Emailing out press kits trying to get a blink of interest for Relay Team Finder. Simultaneously I watch people in this coffee shop show each other apps on their phones to download. Which is the real way to get traction. Until then, there’s this.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 09/07/2026

In case of fire, those with back pain must use stairs.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 07/07/2026

From File > New Project on 14 Feb 2026, including a Vapor backend, Relay Team Finder shipped today! I'm also proud to say all bugs, spaghetti code, even the shitty icon was hand crafted by me. RTF helps runners find relay teams, and vice versa. US store only for now🧵 apps.apple.com/us/app/relay...

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Relay Team Finder App - App Store

Download Relay Team Finder by Dan O'Leary on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Relay Team Finder.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 03/07/2026

App rejected for having the user enter their age. The app pairs relay race teams with runners and some teams form with things like “over 40 only” and such. When I was setting this up it should have raised a red flag for me but didn’t. Fairly easy fix but it will take a new server migration. 👨‍💻

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 01/07/2026

Isola Pizza Little Italy, San Diego. My official review is; Yes.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 28/06/2026

Filtering in Vapor has always puzzled me a bit. So I wrote a blog post about it. It took me about 3 days to write this, but it'll take you about 10 minutes to read it if you're interested. certainlyswift.com/demystifying...

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Demystifying Vapor filters

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