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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 20/08/2026

Attention Apple devs: App Store Connect footgun warning‼️ Once an app supports a new platform as a Unlversal app, support for that platform can NEVER be removed (Without deleting the app record entirely)! I was considering tvOS and macOS versions of @neontrip.app as an experiment. 🤷‍♂️ #ReadTheDocs

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 24/06/2026

Sometimes I can’t help but think I might be crazy for spending so much time on @neontrip.app, but once in a while I hear back from fellow enthusiasts out there! It means so much to get supportive feedback like this! 🥹 Thank you for riding along! 🙏🏻 #indiedev #visionOS

5 star, App Store review saying:
New update is sweet!

From user: Tim McPeabody

The improved render quality is totally noticeable, I'm super excited about this!
This app speaks to my soul, thank you so much for continuing to work on this!

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 11/06/2026

In great company here at the Apple Developer Community Meetup at #WWDC26 🙌 @vrhermit.com and Paolo Villanueva presenting the story of Step Into Vision, a group of developers, story tellers and other enthusiasts working on #visionOS projects and supporting each other in our shared passion. 🫶

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 09/06/2026

New MusicUnderstanding framework for the new OS’es, looks cool, but without support for Apple Music streams? Really? I’ll need to look more into this. developer.apple.com/documentatio... #WWDC26

developer.apple.com

MusicUnderstanding | Apple Developer Documentation

Analyze audio content and extract music information.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 08/06/2026

List in clear text, as id’d by iOS OCR and Claude. Use panoramas for Environments Extra-small widget option New windows with curvature Improved Control Center Look and tap to view and respond to notifications Faster boot connect to Wi-Fi Spatial scene support for panoramas #WWDC26 #visionOS

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 08/06/2026

Examining screenshot from Keynote for phrases that seem to relate to #visionOS #WWDC26

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 25/05/2026

Super proud to announce the first update in quite a while. Next update will hopefully be out a LOT sooner and will bring more music sources and themes via in-app purchase. Oh! Don’t forget to check out the new website: neontrip.app #indieDev #visionOS #VR #WWDC26

neontrip.app

Neon Trip - Music Visualizer

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 15/04/2026

Anyone out there with a Vision Pro still on visionOS 1.0? I’ve done quite a bit of work to keep the next update compatible and would love to find someone to test it. #retroComputing #visionOS

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/04/2026

Cool little surprise “Easter egg” today in the “FTP Client - Files Location” app for Mac by @borum.dev No spoilers here 🐣 #FTP55

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 31/03/2026

Is the global currency pretty much going to be AI/compute tokens? UBI in the form of compute resources/futures?

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Lukas Petr @luksape.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

So, this happened 🤯 🇧🇷 🚀 apps.apple.com/us/story/id1...

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/12/2025

The basic app will remain free, but general internet search and playback definitely has to be a paid feature 😅 @neontrip.app

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/12/2025

From digging around in logs, I found that the cutoff was on Nov 18th! Hmm.. the exact same day as the Cloudflare outage…? The .pls endpoints are now active again, but the indexing service has marked them as broken ever since. 🤷‍♂️ I’ll work on HLS support now… App update postponed… again… #devlog

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/12/2025

To my horror, I discovered that some important radio stations recently stopped responding on their old school .pls format endpoints and only streamed via HLS. My apps new radio feature only supports .pls and it hasn’t even shipped yet! To be continued… #indiedev

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 08/12/2025

*sigh* It takes a lot of work and experimentation to just get “that specific UI feature” while keeping it looking and behaving as if it was made using standard system components. #swiftui

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 06/12/2025

@selig.bsky.social Just wanted to say hi, and thanks for your blogpost christianselig.com/2024/03/recr... An upcoming internet radio search feature in @neontrip.app is going to use this. 👍 A shame that this kind of search bar is, as far as I can tell, still not a built-in feature. Cheers!

christianselig.com

Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, re...

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Simon B. Støvring @simonbs.dev · 25/11/2025

This season’s Festivitas updates are here! 🎄🚀 Festivitas 1.9 turns your Mac into a winter wonderland with snow and adds Shortcuts automation ❄️💻 And for the first time, Festivitas comes to iPhone and iPad with animated festive lights on your Home Screen 🎄📱 Get Festivitas 👇 festivitas.app

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Eric Lengyel @ericlengyel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Version 1.1 of the Radical Pie equation editor has been released. This is a free upgrade for all users. radicalpie.com

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 17/11/2025

I finally converted my renderer to support foveated mode. It was much simpler than I thought. 🤦‍♂️ I don’t think the docs spell it out explicitly, but this enables rendering at higher resolution than otherwise with Metal.🤘 The framerate suffers though, so I need to work on that! #visionOS #GPU

Image demonstrating foveated rendering where the center area uses most pixels and gradually the angle per pixel increases closer to the edges. The scaling is “Cartesian” rather than radial, so we still end up with a rectangular image. The hardware warps this image when it is presented, so the image looks correctly. The low res images are way out in the areas that gets blurred by the lenses anyway, so no real harm is done unless we get too much of a moire effect going.
Thanks for reading my tech talk. 😉

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Simon B. Støvring @simonbs.dev · 13/11/2025

This holiday season YOU 🫵 control the weather! * * As long as the weather you’d like is snow, snow, and more snow! ❄️ Out November 25 🎄

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 06/11/2025

Apple: (in the current online game dev session): “There are two types of game engines on our platforms: 1. Third party (eg. Unity) 2. Ported custom PC engine.“ I guess this explains why Metal docs assume that devs already know everything about GPUs and gfx dev. 🙄 #GPU #Apple #MetalAPI #GameDev

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 05/11/2025

I would have loved to go. Travel to either London or Berlin would be doable, but hotel expenses is the limiter for me. Maybe next time.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 01/11/2025

Would it be possible to record a conversation nowadays without needing giant cockpit cans and mics suspended from earthquake proof shock absorbers?

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 27/10/2025

The crackling sound? Me too. I was working specifically on audio when it first occurred, so naturally I thought - for days - that my code was the issue. This was one of the rare occasions where it wasn’t 🤦‍♂️

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 24/10/2025

Claude apparently got fed up with work yesterday and seemed to reflect on its own abilities. I had to take a screenshot. 🤣

Screenshot of Claude code saying:

* Insight
• File editing tools work best with targeted, isolated changes - complex refactoring of large blocks can create orphaned code
• Sometimes it's better to manually edit complex files in Xcode rather than via automated tools

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 22/10/2025

Called it! But I also predicted that the updated device would be available here in Denmark. I still can’t order a dev strap or even the new Dual Knit band. I’ll keep on working with my M2 device for now. Happy M5 arrival day fellow enthusiasts! 🥳

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 22/10/2025

I wonder how much is conscious design and how much is “cargo cult” reflexes. 🤔 Will be interesting to follow.

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Gregory @dreamwieber.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My new app Metaballs for Apple Vision Pro is featured by the editors at the top of the App Store! 🤯 Getting two apps featured this fall was my goal, and at times felt crazy — was a lot of work. Thanks for such an amazing response everyone, more to come! 🙌

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 10/10/2025

Ooh! I don’t think I’ve heard that one before. I’ll check out more of them. I sort of had a feeling about a resemblance between his track Higher and Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan. But your example is way more direct. I don’t mind though 🥳

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 10/10/2025

So this new single from Droid Bishop just dropped: music.apple.com/dk/album/man... This is going straight to my main playlist! Bonus: Less than a week ago one of my other favorite artists, LukHash, released another instant classic. Check out: music.apple.com/dk/album/pix...

music.apple.com

Man Machine - Single by Droid Bishop on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 1 Song

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Commodore 64 News #c64 @c64news.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Bubble Bobble C64 Remastered – A Tribute to a Timeless Classic #c64 c64universe.com/2025/10/06/bubble-b…

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 09/09/2025

So, when is Apple going to rename SwiftUI to Liquid Cocoa? #AppleEvent #swiftUI

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 16/08/2025

Shout out to @secureshellfish.app for enabling me to keep getting work done while on the go. 🙌

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Joseph Simpson @vrhermit.com · 27/07/2025

Today I published the 300th post on Step Into Vision 🎉 I made this video to celebrate some of my favorite examples and labs. #AppleVisionPro #visionOS #SwiftUI #RealityKit #ARKit stepinto.vision

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 11/08/2025

It’s been almost a year since the last update of Neon Trip - Music Visualizer. 🫣 Things take time 😅 Eg. The past week I got carried away with the math behind providing meaningful search suggestions (the tiny menu below a search field) for a new internet radio search feature. 🤓 Who will notice? 🔎

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 05/08/2025

Yes of course. I just mean that I wouldn’t expect it to be allowed. On the other hand I am surprised that the string isn’t sanitized. 🤷‍♂️

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 05/08/2025

It’s a very clever idea that I would think is also quite bad. Especially if you want to keep your developer account. 😆

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 24/07/2025

I guess one either dies an indie enthusiast or live long enough to see oneself become a growth hacker.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 21/07/2025

The shuffle button??? 🤯 Is it to let the player choose whether or not to shuffle where it would currently autoshuffle? That would be neat.👍 I don’t have any feedback or magic advice. I just want to say that I am excited about you working on more stuff for this puzzle game. Cheers!

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 28/06/2025

Yeah, that might be a sufficiently important use case. I just sense that the technical sophistication of the lower level support seems too great to have been added “just” for that. Nevertheless, it does seem to potentially open up wild possibilities for visionsOS interop with the other platforms.

sophisticatio.support

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 28/06/2025

Yeah, I don’t expect it to be that interesting by itself for general “visionOS app development”. But I am wondering about what this feature is signaling wrt. future use cases and strategic directions from Apples side. 🤔

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 28/06/2025

Do you have any thoughts on “macOS Spatial rendering” (eg. mentioned in youtu.be/r4GlApHWWZ8 beginning at 18:30) I am baffled it does not seem to be talked about much online.

youtu.be

WWDC25: What’s new in Metal rendering for immersive apps | Apple

YouTube video by Apple Developer

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 27/06/2025

Did it at least output some sort of run-time error message to the console?

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 18/06/2025

Federico meets Federighi to talk iPadOS! 🎯 This is a must-read 🤓 I mainly use my iPad Pro (2018) to take notes, sketch diagrams and do math with Apple Pencil. But I look forward to explore the new multi-window & menu bar paradigm.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 15/06/2025

Xcode 26 beta straight up crashes when loading my project. I’ve tried deleting targets etc. to make it simpler, but it still crashes. This makes it difficult to provide useful feedback, but I’ll try anyway.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 15/06/2025

They forgot to change F1 to F26 #WWDC25

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/06/2025

I think this approach will still “flash the rom” on the machine (or whatever it’s called these days), so I guess it’s not 100% safe…

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 12/06/2025

I did that last year with the Sequoia beta. I don’t remember exactly how, but I started making a partition and installed the then-current OS which I then updated to the beta via the Settings systems update menus.

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