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Stash 1.1 reads your saved articles aloud in 27 languages. All on your iPhone. No server, no subscription. Now available: juststash.app

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 18/09/2026

Stash, our read/listen-later app, is up for pre-order. Zero outside dependencies. Built to last, yours forever. $14.99 pre-order price. $19.99 when we launch in October. RSS, podcasts, and multi-language support coming as free updates.

Listen while you do something else.
You saved it.
Now listen to it.
Save it all.
Hear it all.

Works in Airplane Mode.
Read along, or just read.

No ads.
No limits
No Account.
No tracking.
No nonsense.
No onboarding.
No subscription.
Built to last.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 05/09/2026

Using the fairly new (iOS 26) `BGContinuedProcessingTask` so generating audio can continue in the background while you do anything else.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 23/08/2026

Karlsson wants to be in the next video.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 14/08/2026

🆕 New in Xcode 27. Apple suggests using iOS 17 (2023) as the minimum deployment target, which supports devices from 2018. They expose this suggestion as RECOMMENDED_IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET variable. If you use this it, Xcode will automatically change the minimum deployment target.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 30/07/2026

AmoreCheckout makes it easy possible to implement in-app purchases into Mac apps that are distributed outside the Mac App Store. Learn More: docs.amore.computer/documentatio...

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 29/07/2026

In addition to distributing #Kompressor my image converter app, via the App Store I now distribute it directly via Amore as well. It's currently 50% off as part of #IndieAppSales. You can use the promo code INDIEAPPSALES2026. kompressor.app

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 29/07/2026

In celebration of #IndieAppSales I added the ability to enter promo codes to Amore's checkout experience. If you use AmoreLicensing in your app, you can use this to offer discounts and promos for your apps.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 24/07/2026

It's done! A tiny 3D object renderer for the @play.date written in @swift.org. Inspired by @tsoding.bsky.social's amazing 3D graphics video. ❤️

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 20/07/2026

Amore will soon support in-app purchases outside the App Store.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 10/07/2026

One of my cats decided to join tonight.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 02/07/2026

It's day 32 of my 1 video per day for a 100 days video experiment today. I added a video gallery of all the videos I recorded so far to my website.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 24/06/2026

Added this about view to Alam to explain where its name is coming from. It‘s a slow project because I currently don‘t have a lot of time but it‘s slowly coming together.

A screenshot of the Alam iOS app‘s about view.

Alam
Version 1.0 (7)

Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

Indonesian
/a'lam/
Noun

the natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology; production, and design

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 24/06/2026

A free home for free software. That's Amore. amore.computer/foss

A free home
for free software.
That’s Amore.

FOSS (free and open source software) is built in the open: free to read, run, and improve. Those projects get all of Amore, for free. Every feature, no limits, forever.

Sparkle updates, code signing, notarization, DMGs, hosting: the full stack, free for FOSS projects without limitations. Building one? Reach out and it’s on the house.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 23/06/2026

Sometime in 2010 I wrote my first few lines of code. Still chasing that high.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 20/06/2026

Day 20: Why am I doing this?

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 19/06/2026

I built Zeit, an app for the @play.date game console.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 17/06/2026

I really like the docs that Swift DocC creates for AmoreKit. Every library is visible here, and it's easy to click around and explore the SDK. Should probably add some custom preview images here. docs.amore.computer/documentation

A screenshot of docs.amore.computer/documenation

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 17/06/2026

This is what happens when you export an invoice in Billy. 🫦

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 16/06/2026

I switched from iCloud Photos to @ente.io a couple of months ago and never looked back. Here is why.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 09/06/2026

Quick update on Alam. Created an app icon using Icon Composer and pushed it to TestFlight.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 08/06/2026

Here is a quick demo of Alam. Alarm sounds are slowly fading in to not startle you in the morning.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 08/06/2026

Created this placeholder app icon in Icon Composer.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 07/06/2026

I started to work on this new alarm app called Alam yesterday. It wakes you up with a bunch of soft nature sounds and bird songs instead of irritating noise.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 06/06/2026

Today is about Loupe by @mysk.bsky.social and a surprising fingerprinting identifier that's used against you.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 04/06/2026

I got asked how my face is hovering inside the screen recording. I built this little app to help me.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 04/06/2026

Rebuilt amore.computer's landing page today. Would love to get your feedback.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 03/06/2026

Today is about Macrowave.co, an app that I have been working on with my friend @necmttn.com last year. Makes it super easy to create your own radio station to share it with your friends.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 02/06/2026

There are good reasons to publish Mac apps outside of the App Store. iA lists some reasons in their recent blog post. - In-app purchases don’t work for institutional purchases - Educational discounts - Some companies disable access to the App Store - Custom payment system integration (e.g Amore)

More Choice

For over 16 years, customers have asked for a way to buy iA apps outside the App Store. Some didn’t like App Store, some didn’t have access to it due to company policies. With direct sales it’s finally possible to use our apps both at home and at work.
Selling outside the App Store gives us and our users more flexibility. With iA Account you can now:
Buy iA Writer for Mac from via App Store or from us directly.
Access and extend add-on services like Web Sharing for iA Presenter.
Get educational discounts.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 02/06/2026

Wrote about updates in May in With Amore №5 amore.computer/blog/5/

With Amore №5
June 1, 2026
Hi friends,

This is the fifth issue of »With Amore«, which I use to keep you in the loop about significant project milestones and updates.

In May the focus was on improving the licensing & payments system for the first couple of developers that implemented it into their apps.

Amore Licensing
One of the most significant changes this month is that Amore's licensing system does not require an Amore+ subscription anymore, making it absolutely free to get started.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 31/05/2026

Got a new Casio. The timer on this one is really useful.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 25/05/2026

Amore's licensing system is now free to get started.

Start for free, and only pay in months you earn over $1,000. After that, it's 1.5% of your total monthly tracked revenue (MTR).

Free
Up to $1K in MTR
1.5%
of MTR after $1K

import AmoreLicensing

let licensing = try AmoreLicensing(publicKey: "your-public-key")

try await licensing.activate(licenseKey: "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX")

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 15/05/2026

> The codebase is otherwise largely the same. + 1m LOC - 4k LOC You added a MILLION lines of code and removed 4k. The project's majority is still written in Rust. Are you alright¿

Rewrite Bun in Rust

Blog post with details coming soon.

It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchmarks are between neutral and faster - and most importantly, we now have compiler-assisted tools for catching & preventing memory bugs, which have costed the team an enormous amount of development & debugging time over the years.

The codebase is otherwise largely the same. The same architecture, the same data structures. Bun still uses few 3rd party libraries. No async rust.

To try this, run:

bun upgrade --canary
Please do file issues if you run into any. If this thread gets crazy I will lock it.

Note:

Still some optimization work to do before this lands in non-canary version.
Still some cleanup work to do (which will come in a series of follow-up PRs)

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 14/05/2026

As requested. You can now install Amore via Homebrew. Feel free to submit a PR to the official tap. 😋

❯ brew install --cask AmoreComputer/amore/amore
==> Fetching downloads for: amorecomputer/amore/amore
✔︎ Cask amore (0.1,35) Verified 20.5MB/ 20.5MB
==> Installing Cask amore
==> Moving App 'Amore.app' to '/Applications/Amore.app'
🍺 amore was successfully installed!

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 28/04/2026

Reworked Amore's automatic DMG creation. It's now using LZMA compression and the APFS file system, which results in way smaller installer disk images. For example, the download size of the Amore app shrank by ~27%. Additionally, I tweaked the design of DMGs to give them a more modern feeling.

A screenshot of 2 macOS windows.

On the left it's showing the Amore disk installer image and on the right a window of the Amore app.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 27/04/2026

Hand-coded an agent-harness from scratch this morning to demystify and learn more about how they work. It's using qwen3.6 via Ollama. It has 3 tools so far: read_file list_files edit_file It is already potent enough to modify its source code.

A macOS Terminal window showing a agent-harness CLI chat interface.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 09/04/2026

Built a pomodoro Mac app as a demo project for Amore, including OTA updates and a licensing system. The whole thing took an hour, which made me realize how far Amore has come and how fast you can ship Mac apps with it.

2 screenshots of the Pomodoro demo app.

On the left the licensing screen and on the right the actual pomodoro timer.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 31/03/2026

Some developers asked me to create ‘Built with Amore’ badges for their websites. Not happy with this yet.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 23/03/2026

One of the more unique Mac apps published with #Amore recently.

SlapMac

Slap your MacBook. It screams back. That's it. That's the app.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 03/03/2026

Some WIP screenshots of the Amore licensing self-serve customer portal. Users will be able to login to the portal using their email address. The portal lets them manage and revoke license activations.

2 Safari screenshots of the Amore licensing portal

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 02/03/2026

Here are some early screenshots of the Amore licensing interface for developers.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 13/02/2026

The #Amore CLI reached feature parity with the Mac app, which means you and your agent can now access the full power of Amore right from the command line. You build and Amore takes care of publishing your Mac app.

Screenshot of a macOS Terminal window executing the `amore` command.

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