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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 3h

Not at all…I sent out PressKits to 5 different reporters/publications and got 0 responses. Though I wouldn’t say that’s Paul’s fault.

Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 3h

The Kickstart app from @twostraws.bsky.social was actually quite helpful for me. Not that I’ve seen a huge spike in downloads, but the guidance on ASO and PressKits was very very helpful. www.kickstart.tools

kickstart.tools

Kickstart: The app that helps indie developers ship

Kickstart is the Mac app for tracking App Store keywords, optimizing Apple Ads, understanding reviews and analytics, and growing your app.

Yeah that’s pretty rough. I hadn’t thought of the Mastodon instance factor, which I know little about. But equating it to an ATProto PDS I could see someone setting up overly restrictive rules on their server.

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Sounds like some rogue automation filtering. I was once asked to write a review on Product Hunt and the review kept getting rejected because it said it was written by AI (it was not). When I wrote to their support, the email bounced because of potential spam. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Black Rock Pizza in Kihei, Maui, offers a casual and fun dining experience with a focus on fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. They are known for their hand-tossed pizzas, bold flavors, and a laid-bac...

No it wasn’t dry at all! It was excellent. The listed ingredients are; “Hoisin BBQ, Kalua Pork, Jalapeno, Local Pineapple, Smoked Mozzarella, Rock Sauce Drizzle”. Maybe rock sauce is a twist on nacho cheese, but whatever it was it was good. blackrock.pizza/order/black-...

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Black Rock Pizza Maui

Too far, no car, not enough time this trip, but thanks for the tip!

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 29/09/2026

The Hoi Boi from Black Rock Pizza in Maui.

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He may have had several million agents running at once, or something to that effect.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 29/09/2026

My friend @thedrewbenson.bsky.social had this same thing happen to him. Not sure what the fix was.

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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

YouTube video by Drew and Dan in The Morning

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

That is spectacular feedback thank you! I can easily add the SIWA button on the first page. That little hand animates right to left, so I could put a "Swipe to learn more" on there as well, but maybe that's too much. 🤔

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

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

Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 27/09/2026

The need for handling a sort index as part of a SwiftData model. I understand the need for it with reorderable, but it gave me the heebie-jeebies when thinking about future changes to that saved data. You'll always have to handle sort index. I couldn't deduce another solution of course.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 27/09/2026

I was researching .reorderable with SwiftData models and found your video and another blog post. The sort order persistence screamed future off-by-one errors, but maybe I’m being naive?

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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

Awe! Well I hope Drew and I can send some healing waves your way.

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 · 20/09/2026

I just checked with Xcode 27.0 and no crash.

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Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 20/09/2026

This is a beautiful story. 😊

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

Well now I feel bad I didn’t have some sort of outlandish “pizza”.

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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 · 16/09/2026

I had a few other build issues that were resolved with a great deal of calamity... I suspect they will be fixed in short order, but if you're having issues replace the dependencies with what you see in the screenshot. replaced: "from: "5.0.0-beta.1". Added: .trait(name: "UnstableContainersPreview")

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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 · 15/09/2026

Very excited to read more about this! Thank you to the whole Vapor team for your work.

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 · 11/09/2026

Approved at the first go.

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

We’ll see how many rounds of rejections I have to go through.

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.

Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 29/08/2026

Beekeeper shaves a woman’s head.

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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.

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 · 25/08/2026

😁 Can’t argue with that!

Dan O’Leary @danoleary.me · 25/08/2026

I think there’s a TV show about this called Horders.

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.

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

Reposted by Dan O’Leary

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.

Are these transfers all GitHub to GitHub, or is it a mixture of GitHub to Bitbucket etc?

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.

I don’t know that I’ll ever need this information. But what do you think the rate limit is?

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

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Adding Siri Integration to a Location Check-In App

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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YouTube video by Drew and Dan in The Morning