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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Adopting Liquid Glass with a Xojo made application. ohanaware.com/blog/2025/07...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

SwiftUI macOS pragmatically showing an open or save panel as a sheet. #SwiftUI #macOS ohanaware.com/swift/macOSO...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

SwiftUI macOS sheet dialog buttons, how to meet the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. ohanaware.com/swift/macOSS... #swiftUI #macOSDev

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

macOS Vibrancy in SwiftUI made Mac apps. Shows you how to get it and how to match AppKit made Mac apps. ohanaware.com/swift/macOSV... #SwiftUI #macOSDev

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

SwiftUI macOS Toolbar examples and tricks. #swiftUI #macOS ohanaware.com/swift/macOST...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Wrote a SwiftUI tutorial, it's my first tutorial in over decade and my first for SwiftUI. Build a simple Markdown Editor. ohanaware.com/swift/markdo...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Why is my Mac warm when it's asleep? The "Process CPU Usage" in the latest Sleep Aid beta gave me this information. You can try it yourself by downloading the beta, select "Process CPU Usage" from the "View" menu and let the Mac sleep. ohanaware.com/sleepaid/pre...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Indie App Sales is running again for this years Black Friday, and both Sleep Aid and App Wrapper are going to be there. indieappsales.com

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Get ready for the Sleep Aid Tracker Launch, by getting Product Hunt to notify you when it's live. www.producthunt.com/products/sle...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

People asked for a version of Sleep Aid from the Mac App Store. Due to App Store guidelines it currently isn't possible, however I have started work on a Sleep Tracker that can at least tell how much insomnia your Mac suffers with. Here's an example with standard sleep options.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

"Hold on to your butts" This is the Wednesday projection, but it can still swing west before then.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

App Wrapper is part of "Omegabundle for Xojo 2024". If you use Xojo at all, get the bundle which also includes Enihugur, GraffitiSuite, MBS, Valentia DB & xDev subscription, and start shipping better apps today. www.omegabundle.net

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Only a month ago I posted about a WRX Wagon, in that time my FXT developed a taste for CVTs and it's about to get a 3rd. The Mrs and I decided to get a new car and it's not a WRX Wagon. It's a little Suzuki Vitara. I'mma miss having power, but at least it's better for the environment.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

8 second hand held long exposure with the @Asus #Zenfone11Ultra The ocean was really calm this morning, which I think helped, but also I'm pretty certain the 3rd generation stabilization functionality also played a significant role.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

I haven't done much photography for a very long time, had a bash with this beach photo I captured while walking doggos. I do miss creating beautiful images. Edited with Pixelmator Pro.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Trying to script Xcode to index my help (thanks @MarioGuzman). This part of the script keeps failing. for LANGUAGE in *.lproj; do pushd "${LANGUAGE}" ... done Log shows it never finds the language folder, and there's a ton of Sandbox errors. Any ptrs anyone?

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Looking for some inspiration. What would be a cool way to illustrate to the user that an update is available? Right now, the bottom of the window changes from showing the Ohanaware logo to displaying a default button. #indieMacDev

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Wait... what? I thought RAM prices haven't changed in over a decade, Apple still charges $200 for each 8GB of RAM. /s

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

The new Ohanaware web site is coming along, fancy a sneak peek before we go public with it? ohanaware.com/index_2024.h...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Sigh, so that's why my new site looked wrong when showing a friend on my phone. It's the same with Chrome and even Safari on iOS. Guess I'mma have to rasterize the top logo.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Here's a version of the new site after listening to critique. I'm still trying to be bold and attention grabbing, just a little less "out there".

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Here's a screengrab incase it doesn't look right for you (let me know if it doesn't).

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

@marioguzman.bsky.social Tried my hand at making SwiftUI dialog buttons meet the AHIG (OK width >= Cancel width). Code's not great, but I think it is a good start. #SwiftUI

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Erm... I know I'm getting on a bit, but I somehow don't think that Size: (11.3 MB on disk) is correct. Worries me because I'm pretty sure they're using ByteCountFormatter, and that means perhaps I shouldn't trust it to display the correct information to my customers.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Built my own Recent Items ( with Blackjack and... ) menu because I couldn't figure out how to get SwiftUI to do it for a non-document based app. It still uses the same underlying API (I assume) but I have to create the menu myself. #SwiftUI #MacDev

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I think this SwiftUI thing could work for me... Taken me a lot longer than I'd like as I really had to alter the way I think about UI and trying to learn Swift at the same time. Anyway, I'd love to share a video, but I can't seem to get it to work here. #SwiftUI #DeclarativeUI

Permissions Reset 3 prototype interface showing live data from the file. The UI was constructed in SwiftUI in a way that **should** work on macOS 11 Big Sur.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I'm still having trouble getting my head around unwrapping optionals. Can someone please suggest a better way to do this? whereFromURLS: [String]? #Swift

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Here's a screen grab. I'd like to know if anyone can see any potential problems with this code or improvements. The key is the WindowConfigurator struct and passing code via a Block (is this called a closure in Swift?).

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Something wrong with my noodles

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

In part 2 of my now "Moving on" series, I talk about my decision to abandon Xojo, my development tool of choice for 25 years. ohanaware.com/blog/2023/10...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Forgot to charge my phone last night.

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

After 15 years, and with great sadness, it is time to move on from making Mac photo editors. ohanaware.com/blog/202338/...

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Came back to the dirty Subaru after a walk and someone left some stickers under the wipers. :)

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

My breakfast this morning. I jammed as much as possible into the hot dog bun and it was awesome! #summerpoint #Taiwan

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Sam Rowlands @samrowlands.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Progress... I can now identify app wake request wakes. Next step is to identify which app requested the wake. As for the AOP Scheduled wake (Always On Processor), I'm none the wiser, for the moment.