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Denis Andrašec @denrase.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My ASO tool AppShovel just got a major upgrade 👀 📋 Lists to track thousands of keywords & ranks 🤖 New API + CLI for agentic workflows ⚡ Dramatically faster across the board Now also with a 14-day free trial! 👉 Visit appshovel.com if you want to give it a spin.

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AppShovel | Simple AppStore Optimization Tools for Everyone

Find and track keywords on the Apple AppStore to grow your organic downloads. Discover keyword popularity, rankings, and opportunities.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 25/02/2026

Weekend project that got a bit meta: I build an agent skill that coaches you how to build a coding agent from scratch. Eight steps and you understand what's happening when these tools work. mgratzer.com/posts/from-o...

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From Ore to Iron: Build Your Own Coding Agent | Martin Gratzer

I used a coding agent to build a skill that runs inside a coding agent to show how to build a coding agent. It's agents all the way down.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 19/02/2026

I haven't posted here in a while, so naturally I'm coming back with a blog post about AI. I know. Over the winter holidays I built an app for my kids using agents. The interesting part was figuring out how to make the agent follow my process. I wrote up what I learned. mgratzer.com/posts/forgin...

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Forging a Workflow: Agentic Engineering in Practice | Martin Gratzer

A side project, a workflow, and the case for keeping humans in the loop when agents write the code.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 18/01/2026

Just finished Super Mario Wonder with my kids. The joy on their faces the whole way through… Nintendo just gets it.

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 11/09/2025

Ich hab einen 1.5 Stunden Workshop zu generativer KI gebastelt. Für ein nicht-technisches Publikum, das verstehen will, wie das alles so ca. funktioniert, was es kann und was es nicht kann. Bräuchte Freiwillige, die bei einem Online+Testlauf mitmachen. Nächsten Mittwoch, 21:00. DMl me bei Interesse

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 06/09/2025

A small rant on the contemporary Zeitgeist for the weekend. Fuck 996. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

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There is cost to your lifestyle.

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Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Among the books in this year’s Software Architecture humble bundle: @andrewhl.bsky.social : Facilitating Software Architecture and @dianamontalion.com : Learning Systems Thinking Software Architect Books from Humble Bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/softwa...

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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly

Pay what you want for the latest Humble Tech Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 and help support Code for America with your purchase!

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 23/06/2025

Our three-year-old often holds the controller upside down, finger's crossed this print helps 🤞. makerworld.com/models/1492385

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 13/06/2025

Oh. I haven't recognized the port on top yet. Great addition.

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Nicolas Dular @nicolasdular.com · 03/06/2025

This! spiess.dev/note/enginee...

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Rise of the Product-Focused Engineer

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 03/06/2025

He did it again! Congratulations Klemens.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Need to print this out and frame it near my desk

A meme of two cowboys in a standoff. One says "what's your budget?" and the other one says "what's your rate?"

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Denis Andrašec @denrase.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Alright, let's make ASO affordable for everyone! 💪 Introducing AppShovel, a tool to get more organic app downloads. 🚀 ✅ Discover keywords with search & recommendations ✅ Keywords popularity & difficulty ✅ Competitor rankings The best part, it's only 5$/m! 👉 Visit AppShovel.com to get started!

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AppShovel | Simple AppStore Optimization

Find keywords that rank on the Apple AppStore and get more organic downloads.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 21/02/2025

I can only share the sentiment. My fanboyism died a while ago, and I am moving on by viewing them as just another platform.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 21/02/2025

Our kids dodged any virus for the whole winter season, and I was proud, but pride comes before the fall.

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 17/02/2025

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond. www.massicotte.org/leverage

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Leverage

I’m really not sure how to start this one. Normally, I write about technical topics. But, that’s not what this is. This is different. So I’m just going to say it.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 16/02/2025

Today, I built my first web page with the static site generator Hugo and was amazed by its flexibility. For example, adding a custom shortcode to draw inline Mermaid graphs from markdown took me 10 minutes.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 03/01/2025

Buying ice skates the moment our lakes freeze is excellent timing 🤦‍♂️. The store is empty, folks are lining up, and there is only one expensive model left. Luckily, they are my size. There is no way around it; the kids need entertainment. ⛸️

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 03/01/2025

The winter downtime reading hattrick is done by rereading a book every software engineer should know: Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It's a concise journey with practical advice on reducing software complexity. I ended up with more notes than the publisher allowed 🙃.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 01/01/2025

Oh, Apple TV+ is free for everyone next weekend. It's a good chance to get hooked on some of the best TV shows with high production value and excellent casts. techcrunch.com/2024/12/30/a...

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Apple TV+ will be free to stream this weekend | TechCrunch

Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free this weekend, from January 3 to 5. The company made the announcement on Monday

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 31/12/2024

I am happy to finish my second winter downtime project — ending the year with the Festive 500 challenge. It was a grind this year, as my time window for riding is late at night and indoors. Putting a checkmark behind this challenge feels excellent, though. content.rapha.cc/at/en/story/...

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 26/12/2024

If you have kids and a 3D printer, try these models. After printing the excavator for our youngest, I had to do multiple for others. Everyone instantly gets excited about it. Assembly is also a fun Lego-like experience. makerworld.com/models/769288 and makerworld.com/models/775068

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 24/12/2024

Completed my first read for the winter downtime: Tiago Fortes's Building a Second Brain — good input for my note-taking. What interests me most is the PARA method for better clustering and discoverability; this is where my pile of bookmarks and digital and handwritten notes fall short.

A hand holding up Tiago Forte's Book Building a Second Brain in front of a Christmas tree.

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 21/12/2024

Yeah, I put that in all my production prompts as well. What a time to be alive. You can be damn sure, that this type of prompt snippet is also used in the medical/legal/financial expert LLM system your corp just licensed :)

# Real Data

Use the following text for your answer. Do not make anything up in your answer.

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Drew McCormack @drewmccormack.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've spent the 6 months working on a new approach to shared data in Swift: Forked. Main features: - Git-like branching and merging for Swift structs - Advanced merge algorithms (CRDTs) - Macros to make structs mergeable - Sync structs via CloudKit with <10 LOCs appdecentral.com/2024/12/13/n...

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Now we’re all Forked!

Forked is a new Swift framework for working with shared data, on device, and across networks.

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Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski @kto.so · 14/12/2024

Goals for #swift in 2025 published! Better concurrency, low level performance tools and java interop 🎉 Exciting stuff, lots of goodies coming to server side swift development through these :-) forums.swift.org/t/swift-language-f…

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Chris Eidhof @eidhof.nl · 06/12/2024

One of the must underrated views in SwiftUI might just be the `Text` view. It's a perfect example of progressive disclosure: once you dig in, you'll find a bunch of nice features! Related to the video: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 04/12/2024

Occasionally, we see massive spikes in institutional downloads on App Store Connect — up to a 1000% increase in a single day from specific countries. Could this be spam or some scamming mechanism? Has anyone else experienced this or know what might cause it? Google wasn’t much help.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 04/12/2024

I watched the awesome talk on Passkeys by @0xtim.bsky.social yesterday. I need to learn more about it to understand how it would integrate with our authentication system. To me it still feels like a feature for super tech-savvy people. I need to test it with my dad. youtu.be/ojTDJuwfVgg?...

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Passkeys: the why, the what, the how

YouTube video by AppForce1

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 02/12/2024

This is the most beautiful thread in a while, over on Mastodon. Harkank aka Erich, built a little antenna rig and wrote some code. chaos.social/@harkank/113... He's now able to read out a metric ton of sensors in his hood, including tire pressure sensors in cars. Zero info sec :D

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The fishbone felt so lonesome out there on the cold balcony, Always pointing to the Mountains of Hell, a qso now and then Austria wide or on the nearest repeaters. Such treatment is not appropriate

So I got her a companion, a discone 85 - 1.300 GHz, a submissive antenna on the receiving end.

Or a #SIGINT antenna if you wish.

Here is the fishbone thread again
https://chaos.social/deck/@harkank/113341901119327246

3/more #hamradio  #sensor

This is my provisonal shack sporting the slimmest possible set up.  A 5 Watt VHF /UHF handheld transceiver connected to OE5XFK in  the Mountains of hell, as everybody should know meanwhile.
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The fat USB stick is an #rtlsdr, a tiny software defined radio attached to a laptop running #ubuntu #linux 24.04.

And now we go a-hunting,  Nearfield #SIGINT starting with a humble bash proggie.

harkank@dellaxo3:~$ rtl_433

4/more  #sensor nearfield #sigint

<diabolic laugh>

ALL YOUR SENSORS ARE BELONG TO US!

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well at least these shitbroadcasting on 433 MHz.

These are all weather stations  and affiliated outdoor sensors all blaring out  data on 433.920  MHz. No idea  who owns these - yet.

Next we got to change this Fahrenheit mess to Celsius.  And there are other sensors around, thankfully.

5/more #sensor #rtlsdr #hamradio
and poor man's #SIGINT

Here comes Fordie. Tyre pressure monitoring says at least one of the tyres is okay. And: Fordie is on the move so we possibly won't be seeing him again.
Good luck to your other 3 tyre sensors and watch out on the road!

Btw the cmd to get only °c is

$ rtl_433 -C si

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 30/11/2024

Ok, it's time for another one of these "Swift concurrency step-by-step" posts. It explores working with types that are not Sendable. All based around reading a model from some data store. www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...

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Concurrency Step-by-Step: Reading from Storage

Not too long ago, I was re-reading an “introductory” post I wrote. Honestly, I could barely make it though. I guess a big part of that is that my own defintion of “introduction” when it comes to concu...

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 24/11/2024

I must admit that my 3D printing experience feels this way occasionally. On the other hand, my mum will come by today to pick up the printed Christmas decorations, enjoy them, and be happy — priceless. www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/s...

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Klemens 🦆 The Art of Fauna 🦆 @strasser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Apple Devs: In case you are like me and want to link to you Bluesky account in your app but don't have a SF Symbol for it - @jeremieberduck.bsky.social got you covered: github.com/jeremieb/soc...

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GitHub - jeremieb/social-symbols: Logos as SF Symbols

Logos as SF Symbols. Contribute to jeremieb/social-symbols development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 20/11/2024

Let the Apple zero day bug update marathon begin. securityaffairs.com/171202/uncat...

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Martin Gratzer @mgratzer.com · 20/11/2024

Oh boy, another service I enjoyed (and praised) is starting a downward spiral 😭. It's time to rediscover Garmin Connect.

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