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slaven @slaven.me · 09/09/2026

Two of my apps made it onto the grid 🤩

slaven @slaven.me · 17/08/2026

The US app store right now 🤩

Finalist 4.0 featured on the US app store

slaven @slaven.me · 15/08/2026

In today's Installer, David Pierce on Finalist 4: "This app has slowly but surely turned into one of the most robust and clever planner / to-do apps out there." 🤩

slaven @slaven.me · 21/07/2026

Finalist can now ingest markdown vaults and show your Obsidian tasks right on your daily timelines, and even create per-tag or per-project swimlanes. Apart from Notes, Finalist gets a new Apple Watch app and hundreds of other changes driven by our massive Discord community.

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slaven @slaven.me · 21/07/2026

As I tend to do, I've let Finalist 4.0 get well overcooked before release (but you don't want your apps medium-rare anyway). After many months of beta testing, 4.0 finally lands on August 11. It's a fine update, the biggest I've had in 3 years.

slaven @slaven.me · 13/07/2026

I woke up to Finalist featured on the App Store in 81 countries (makes great coffee taste even better), right as I'm heads-down finishing 4.0. The beta is on TestFlight now: a new Apple Watch app, plus AI planning built on Apple's on-device models. More soon...

Building against three moving betas at once (iOS, watchOS, Xcode) is its own adventure, but this is the most fun I've had with Apple's frameworks in years.

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Capture feature now uses Foundation Models' new multimodal image input, blended with the classic system OCR. Point it at a screenshot or photo and a concert on a poster gets added to your calendar, and emails, phone numbers, and websites land in the right fields.

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The proposal lands directly on the timeline as penciled-in blocks: apply it, adjust it, or clear it and your day is back exactly as it was. No third-party AI, nothing leaves Apple's stack.

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Plan My Day gathers your tasks, events, reminders, and habits, checks the day's actual free time and the weather, and drafts a schedule using Apple's Foundation Models. On devices that support it, planning runs on Private Cloud Compute, Apple's new cloud tier with on-device-level privacy.

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Just in time for iOS 27 beta 3: I've posted the first Finalist 4.0 beta, and it makes Finalist one of the first apps built on Apple's newest AI stack, including Private Cloud Compute. What that means in practice:

slaven @slaven.me · 19/06/2026

Our app is leaking into IRL

slaven @slaven.me · 17/06/2026

Condukt can do Drums now #dawless

slaven @slaven.me · 12/06/2026

I put together a quick html page that will import any JPG photo, show you graphically how it fills vertical field of view, let you adjust the focal length in EXIF data and save it back out (all on device, doesn't get uploaded anywhere): pencilresearch.github.io/pananarama/

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Pananarama

Make panoramas fill more of your visionOS immersive environment. Corrects the focal-length tag, right in your browser.

slaven @slaven.me · 12/06/2026

I was annoyed how some panoramas looked impressive as custom Environments while others looked shrunk so after some experiments I figured it out: it depends on the lens you used to take the photo. #visionOS #VisionPro

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slaven @slaven.me · 15/05/2026

@gbevin.uwyn.com Hey Geert, we met a couple of years ago at WWDC - are you coming this year?

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slaven @slaven.me · 19/04/2026

Great idea Tyler, signed up! 😊

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slaven @slaven.me · 10/03/2026

Well we released Condukt last week and hit top 10 in Music 🤯 #dawless

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slaven @slaven.me · 31/12/2025

Me: Just stick to the HIG, design is about saying No Also me:

slaven @slaven.me · 22/12/2025

Received a very kind Finalist teardown from @gruber.foo

slaven @slaven.me · 01/12/2025

Doing something crazy for December:

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slaven @slaven.me · 27/11/2025

Turing Machine on Vongon Replay #dawless

slaven @slaven.me · 04/10/2025

Thanks Bo 😀 I’ve been your Patreon for years now so you kinda inspired it

slaven @slaven.me · 30/09/2025

Very cool to see our little midi.guide database we started years ago appear in its first hardware product 👀 (link to section: youtu.be/WOSiTzH8jE4?...)

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slaven @slaven.me · 16/09/2025

Our summer grind gave us a nice surprise today: App of the Day 🤩 The app looks amazing in iOS 26, try it on your iPad blog.penbook.app/p/penbook-is...

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Penbook is the App Store's App of the Day

We just got some exciting news: Penbook has been selected by Apple as the App Store’s App of the Day!

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slaven @slaven.me · 30/07/2025

Virtualizing my TRMNL

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slaven @slaven.me · 25/07/2025

I've been busy with foundation models and glass stuff, but did manage to spend some time building cool visionOS things: bsky.app/profile/dayp...

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slaven @slaven.me · 23/07/2025

Making an interactive widget was pretty involved 😅

slaven @slaven.me · 07/07/2025

⏳ Downloading iOS 26 Beta 3...

slaven @slaven.me · 02/07/2025

Next, iOS 26...!

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slaven @slaven.me · 02/07/2025

Did you have to do anything else to have them show up? My widgets just don't appear in the Widget app as an option (work fine in iOS and macOS)

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slaven @slaven.me · 01/07/2025

Looks great but agreed the spoiler level is off the charts, was almost waiting to see the book ending! 😀

Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Reposted by slaven

3.0 Release approved by Apple! 29 builds and many months of testing - thank you 466 testers 🫡

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slaven @slaven.me · 27/06/2025

Congrats!! 👏👏👏

slaven @slaven.me · 27/06/2025

Finally got my Torso S-4 onto firmware 2.0, it wasn't in the mood to cooperate last week #synthsky

slaven @slaven.me · 26/06/2025

Very nice! I just bought the top and bottom as VSTs (Korg's 50% sale is on now!), though wish I had the real ones... 🤔

slaven @slaven.me · 20/06/2025

I've been having a lot of fun with these new on-device models in iOS 26

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slaven @slaven.me · 18/06/2025

It's great to have it in there, but I wish it was aware of all the new iOS 26 frameworks 🙃 At the end of the day I'm still back on Claude Code but they're on the right path now