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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

- … so are you getting the iPhone Duo? - me: It doesn’t really fit my lifestyle. - What’s your lifestyle? - me: not spending 2300+ euro on a iOS phablet that folds. All I really want is a small iPhone Pro with good camera 🥲

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Harshil @harshil.net · 10/09/2026

Hmm this definitely changes how I'm thinking about the iPhone Duo's proportions

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 10/09/2026

You want to know why your thing sucks now? There's a 50/50 chance it is secretly a web browser and site for no good reason instead of a real computer program. I don't know why we've turned many things that should not be web dev into web dev, but here we are.

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Harshil @harshil.net · 10/09/2026

The iPhone Duo is a Trojan horse to get developers to make better iPad apps And once you've got that you're like 60% of the way to a good Mac app too

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, where's the Xcode 27.1, Apple?

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The new iPhone is both magical and a total eyesore when folded. Good luck using it with a left hand. www.youtube.com/shorts/uJdjK...

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This iPhone Duo Animation 👀

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'll spare you the hassle: this Xcode does not contain the iPhone Duo Simulator. You'll need to wait for Xcode 27.1 beta. developer.apple.com/documentatio...

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Xcode 27 RC Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation

Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't rely on horizontalSizeClass. It's not the same thing as available width and it can be misleading.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did you know you can actually set the background color of WidgetConfigurationIntent UI?

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thanks @tonsky.me for ruining animations in apple’s apps for me. Can’t unsee it now. tonsky.me/blog/every-f...

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Every Frame Perfect

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Xcode Organizer always shows error "Error Downloading Crash Log Information" when trying to download crash logs. developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

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Xcode always shows error "Error Do… | Apple Developer Forums

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Another day another macOS bug. This time CallHistorySyncHelper and peopled processes eating up my battery and overheating my mac. Turns out the process was trying to access CallHistoryDB file that was quarantined. discussions.apple.com/thread/25627...

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High CPU Usage from peopled After Updatin… - Apple Community

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 26/05/2026

I love not being able to build & run an iOS app on my phone, because Apple added a paragraph to some fucking terms of service or whatever legal bullshit and I need to log in to the developer account in Safari first and click agree on that thing before I can continue 😑 (mjtsai plz don't quote me)

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

End of an era. I remember signing up for @daveverwer.com ‘s newsletter some time around 2013-2014 and then waiting each Friday for a new issue arriving in my inbox and enthusiastically reading together with each article it linked to over the weekend.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

AppIntents 'DisplayRepresentation.Image.init(url:)' is broken on iOS 18 - fails to copy image with provided url FB22769538

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The calendar widget bug finally got fixed in watchOS 26.5

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How does this work when using nested ForEach statements because of Section (for headers and footers). I assume the element count for inner ForEach can be determined but what about the outer?

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’ve bitten the bullet and finally “upgraded” to OS 26 last week, thought 1/2 year is enough for Apple to make it stable enough (it’s not). Here’s what I have hit: 1) upgrade from macOS 15 to 26.3 bricked my MBP (firmware failure). DFU revive kept failing.

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Chris Wu 🪐 @chriswu.com · 28/03/2026

When I was driving today CarPlay would not let me use the Apple Music app until I stopped moving and looked at something on my iPhone. It was the “what’s new” sheet for iOS 26.4. 😐

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MindNode @mindnode.com · 15/03/2026

18 years ago today I released MindNode. I was so anxious I kept checking my email on WAP whenever I left the house, just in case something broke. 😊 It didn’t. Somehow MindNode is still here — independent, no outside funding, shaped by the people who use it. Thank you for 18 years. 🎉 — Markus

Colorful illustration of people assembling the number 18 to celebrate an anniversary, with one person on a ladder placing the top circle and others holding the numbers, surrounded by balloons.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is the most poetic writing I have read about cheap computer hardware Brings some nice memories too. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This Link and .widgetAccentedRenderingMode(.desaturated) bug in WidgetKit drives me bananas. What's worse is that the suggested workaround no longer work in iOS 26 🙈 Anyone knows how to fix it? developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I guess I’ll stay on Sierra a bit longer ”What has surprised me with macOS 26.1 is the sudden rush of new bugs in an update that's normally expected to fix more than it creates. To consider what might have gone wrong, here's an overview of those I've been investigating so far.”

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

SwiftUI: Search cannot be activated programatically when using .searchable on iOS FB20906723

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just grabbed my ticket for #PragmaConf. See you in a few weeks in Italy! 🇮🇹 If you’re going too, let’s meet up.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I know some people say blogging is dead but what's the best platform to start a coding-related blog in 2025? Substack? Medium? I don't want to self-host just yet.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Don't create Bindings manually in SwiftUI, using get/set closures. SwiftUI can't diff closures and it will invalidate all view down the line where the Binding is passed. chris.eidhof.nl/post/binding...

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Bindings — Chris Eidhof

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Apple has a unique opportunity to end the naming mess and introduce iPhone 26 next week. Together with Apple Watch Ultra 26 and AirPods 26 🙃

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 12/08/2025

Legendary use case for Claude Code I’ve just heard: “It managed to uninstall all Adobe products from my Mac by telling Claude Code to do this. Toon a bunch of tokens but was worth it.” (Iykyk)

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In one evening during vacation, I vibe coded an app. It lets you quickly expand links & grab website medatada, like text or images. Useful for getting map previews or posts. There might be an app/shortcut for that, but I don't care. Creating this was so much fun!

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Copenhagen, I’m in you for a week! Any tips what to do/eat/drink and where to hang out (with kids)?

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I desperately need a better way how to switch between different apps and especially different windows of the same app. I want to just hit a keyboard shortcut, fuzzy search for windows/tabs by title and then see the hits. There must be an app for that, right?

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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 27/06/2025

I've been using Git since it was invented and "yours" and "theirs" might as well be "hnunch" and "grwinf" for all they make sense to me as names for "the branch I'm rebasing main" and "the I'm rebasing *onto*". I have to look at the contents every. single. time. to figure out which one means which.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The bad thing about iPad Pro no one talks about is that you can never go back to a regular iPad. I had to return an iPad Air that I bought last week because of the display. I couldn’t stand looking at it. And bought the Pro instead. 120Hz all the things!

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MindNode @mindnode.com · 24/06/2025

MindNode started as a simple way to connect ideas — now it helps thousands map out anything from simple to-do lists to big dreams. Still clean. Still focused. Still growing. 💙 What was your first version?

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Has anyone played with PaperKit? Looks interesting but I can't get it working - it's crashing in the simulator and I can't get the PKToolPicker show up on the device. developer.apple.com/videos/play/... #wwdc25

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Meet PaperKit - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer

Discover how to bring PaperKit to your iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS apps. We'll cover how to seamlessly integrate PencilKit drawing...

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

There's no way to tell which of app's windows is active on iPadOS or am I missing something? 🤔 I know about focusedSceneObject and focusedSceneValue but that doesn't seem to update correctly when switching focus from one window to the other. 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

wow, seems like ipad has finally got a grown-up os. i definitely didn't have this on my bingo card for this year.

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NSSpain XIV @nsspain.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

say hi to this year's @nsspain theme ⚔️🛡️  save the date:  - Sept 18-19! 🥳  tickets now available: - ti.to/nsspain/2025

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NSSpain XIII

NSSpain is a non-profit technical event for developers, artists and creators interested in making software for Apple platforms. More info: https://nsspain.com

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

End of an era. What I am going to do with all my 32 893 saved articles? Actually not going to read them? getpocket.com/farewell

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Feeling nostalgic and answering old StackOverflow questions like it's still 2015.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I love this closing thought from Alex Stamos on this mysterious iOS bug: “Security is the only field in CS that gets worse every year”.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Final Logo_final_v3_final(2).psd

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

First time working with rich text and NSTextList in a multi-platform app... Such a delight! Now I'm starting to understand why is everyone into writing their own text editor.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As someone who was really into photography ~20 years ago and never leaving the home without his DSLR with expose bracketing turned on, I'm really enjoying this writeup.

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Has anyone ever made SecureField with .textContentType(.newPassword) suggest a new strong password on macOS or it is only supported on iOS?

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Cocoaheads Austria @cocoaheads.at · 18/04/2025

Cocoaheads Austria Meetup! June 12, 2025 - 18:30 @ @contextsdk.bsky.social ❤️ - Talk by @krausefx.bsky.social about Machine Learning on iOS at Scale 🤖. Come join us for a fun evening of meeting new people, good conversations and free food and drinks! www.meetup.com/cocoaheads-a...

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Cocoaheads Austria Meetup - Hosted by ContextSDK, Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're back! Mark your calendars – June 12, 2025 – and come hang out with like-minded developers, designers and all others interested in app development topics! Whether you

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