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Adrian Eves @swifteves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nashville's a place where people pursue their dreams at max volume. Join @thillsman.me for the rock ballad of the century: the high notes, flat moments, and indie stories behind a career built one app at a time. Write YOUR next chapter at SWIFTSONIC: swiftsonicconf.com

Tyler Hillsman delivers a talk at Swiftsonic called "Decide What to Be and Go Be It"

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Adrian Eves @swifteves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We’ll handle accessibility later” is like learning the bridge after the show starts. @chriswu.com riffs on accessibility at Swiftsonic: quick wins we can use and how to prompt agents to build accessible experiences from the first note. See him LIVE: swiftsonicconf.com

Chris Wu is a Swiftsonic speaker delivering a talk called "So you didn't make accessibility a priority"

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Up Ahead @upahead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Back doing things, I think for real this time. iCloud sync is done, out soon. Some design updates. Watch stuff coming along too. If you're still using Up Ahead, 1. You rule and 2. There's good stuff a-comin'

A screenshot of the countdown app Up Ahead on Apple Watch. A timeline that includes Halloween (34 days) and Christmas (89 days).

A screenshot of the countdown app Up Ahead on Apple Watch. A detail view of an event called "Halloween", 34 days away.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

girl are you the missouri redistricting case because you are CHAOTIC and getting on my nerves

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 18/09/2026

Well this is kind of fun. Hold Option to get a slider to open/close the Duo in Device Hub.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 17/09/2026

@curtclifton.net The iPhone Duo group labs have been extremely good. Thanks for your work!

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 15/09/2026

Did I release iOS 27 updates and maybe a whole new app in the last few days? Maaaybe. 🤔 Did I tell you about it yet and take the attention away from all the other great app releases and features? I have not. 😂 Stay tuned for my week of announcements! 🎉

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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Indigo 1.3 is available now! We've got a bunch of great new features I'll get to in a sec, but first up is a new pricing option. Indigo was great value if you used both Bluesky and Mastodon, but a little pricy if you just used one. Now there's a $19.99 plan for single-network use 😀

A marketing image showing a screenshot of Indigo’s new paywall with a single-network option

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 17/08/2026

Kindle's default naming of devices really puts me in my place.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 11/08/2026

Great night for a #royals ballgame… on the west coast.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 05/08/2026

Ted Lasso S4E1 is so Kansas City, I love it.

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Mike McGrew @zavcurrent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The lesson: if you wanted a 50% chance of making the World Cup Final, you should have set up a team home base in KC.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 04/07/2026

Colombia v Ghana, let's gooooo #worldcup

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 02/07/2026

John Denver estate royalties this month 📈 #worldcup

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 01/07/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #worldcup

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 30/06/2026

The matches today have been incredible. I want this knockout stage to last forever. #worldcup

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Chris Wu 🪐 @chriswu.com · 29/06/2026

Well, after months of work What's My Set is finally out today. It's the workout app I always wanted and I honestly love using it. I hope some other people do as well! apps.apple.com/us/app/whats...

What's My Set watch interface with the set and exercise counts as well as 1 minute and 2 minute rest timer buttons.

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Swiftsonic '26 @swiftsonicconf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Here’s the complete setlist for SWIFTSONIC 2026 👇 Put your hands together for your opener and headliner speakers!

Opener and Headliner pairings from left to right:
Morris Richman and Matt Heaney,
Danielle Lewis and Danijela Vrzan.
Paolo Villanueva and Ben Freiband,
Frank Solleveld and Klemens Strasser,
Abhigyan Jaiswal and Daniel Steinberg,
Harshil Shah and Malin Sundberg,
Laksh Chakraborty and Kaya Thomas,
Adam Lyttle and Chris Wu,
John Haney and James Dempsey,
Tyler Hillsman and Ellen Shapiro,
Om Chachad and Maddie McCarthy,
Montana Braswell and Mikaela Caron

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 27/06/2026

The New Zealand/Belgium/Egypt/Iran group games were so wild and dramatic tonight, especially at the end. What a roller coaster for pretty much every team's supporters. #worldcup

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 23/06/2026

Apple Sports needs a "give me Live Activities for every game in a competition" setting. Until then, I'm a fan of literally every team.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 22/06/2026

My phone is either lucky or faulty. I updated to iOS 27 on Wednesday and had new Siri from day one (I'm assuming my Mac or iPad waitlisting carried over on my Apple ID), but I've never seen the indexing UI in Settings. #blessed

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 18/06/2026

KC area friends (or those who can get to KC): We're selling our Algeria/Austria World Cup tickets for June 27. Let me know if you're interested and we'll both save on fees! #worldcup

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Chris Wu 🪐 @chriswu.com · 16/06/2026

I made a new app (first time in 3 years) and it would REALLY help me if you pre-ordered it (for free). What's My Set is a simple, accessibility set counter for workouts with accessibility as a priority. The handy rest/interval timers bump the set counter for you. apps.apple.com/us/app/whats...

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What's My Set: Workout Timers App - App Store

Download What's My Set: Workout Timers by Christopher Wu on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like What's My Set:…

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 14/06/2026

@mergesort.me Congrats, pal! I knew you could do it.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 07/06/2026

Super weird WWDC week for me (I'll be on a whirlwind trip for the day job in Austin instead of in Cupertino), but my biggest wishes are more hooks into the system, developer tooling improvements that play nice with agents, and general user-side improvements for normies.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 03/06/2026

Would you look at that! 🎸

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Deep Dish Swift 2027 • April 4th to 6th @deepdishswift.com · 02/06/2026

Are you ready for the next iteration of Deep Dish Swift? DDS 2027 is going back in time (again). Back to 8-bit games and MIDI sounds. Back to when a handful of tokens meant a full day of fun. Join us April 4-6, 2027! 🎟️ Early Bird tickets available now at deepdishswift.com

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 02/06/2026

And just like that, more than 50,000 users are seeing Guild Ad banners every week.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 02/06/2026

@benricem.bsky.social Indigo feature request! (Or maybe something that's possible that I haven't figured out yet…) Any plans for adding secondary accounts so I can post from Sticky Widgets account pairs (Mastodon + Bluesky) and Guild Ads account pairs, without a manual logout/login?

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 07/05/2026

In case you missed it (or even if you didn't), I made Guild Ads even easier to implement by having robots do it. You can go from not having an account to shipping a publisher app or placing an ad all from your agent of choice.

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Guild Ads @guildads.com · 07/05/2026

📢 Introducing the absolute easiest way to get started with Guild Ads (as an advertiser, as a publisher, or both!) Have your coding agent set it up with our plugin, and the super powerful CLI. Take a look! github.com/Guild-Ads/gu...

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GitHub - Guild-Ads/guild-ads-plugin: Coding agent skills for Guild Ads — install via Claude Code or Codex to set up a publisher or advertiser account from your editor.

Coding agent skills for Guild Ads — install via Claude Code or Codex to set up a publisher or advertiser account from your editor. - Guild-Ads/guild-ads-plugin

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 17/04/2026

Huge thanks to @daveverwer.com for posting about Guild Ads on @iosdevweekly.com today! Thanks for the kind words, Dave! iosdevweekly.com The first week of ads will go out tomorrow afternoon and we've got a solid roster of advertisers already.

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Issue 748 – iOS Dev Weekly

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 13/04/2026

I made a new thing! In-app ads are weird, ugly, and might pay you a few pennies, but you won't feel good about it. So I tried to fix that. www.tylerhillsman.com/guild-ads

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Introducing Guild Ads - Tyler Hillsman

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 01/04/2026

There's a lot of things that could be better here on Earth, but I'm about to watch a rocket take humans around the moon for the first time in my life, so that's pretty cool. #artemisii

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 30/03/2026

If the Soviets landed on the moon first, we'd have had a Vision Pro without an external battery in 2012.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 18/03/2026

We love Sal, don’t we folks. #royals

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 09/03/2026

I can't properly express how much I love daylight saving time.

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 08/03/2026

What an absolute start to this season. #australiangp

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Josh Holtz @joshdholtz.com · 21/02/2026

🍕 Deep Dish Swift 2026 is just around the corner... And we have a STACKED lineup announced so far 🤯 And even more to come! Do you have your tickets yet? Get your @deepdishswift.com tickets while you can! 👀 ti.to/deep-dish-sw...

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 17/02/2026

The App Store review times are out of control. What is it, 2014?

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Tyler Hillsman @thillsman.me · 15/02/2026

First time using grouped boarding with Southwest. Feels weird.

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