So it looks like I will be able to ship a Duo optimized version of Bulletin for day 1 👍 If you are press / have review units and want to test a Duo optimized RSS reader, feel free to DM for a testflight #iPhoneDuo #apple

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

One thing I keep running into in this agentic engineering era: ideas I've had, or am working on, ship first from someone else. It's inevitable. As an indie, it can feel like permanent catch-up. But it's pushing me to focus and be more ambitious. How are other indies handling it? #indiedev #iOSDev

Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision models simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/...

just learned this today

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/117293211482399613 Nobody should use Mac App Store. Nobody.

Bulletin is sponsoring today's Designed in California. If you're here from the show, hello! Bulletin is an RSS reader that helps you get through everything you follow. You choose every source, and Smart Summaries catch you up on an article or a whole category at a glance. On iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Found something good in Safari? Send it to Bulletin in a couple of taps, thanks to the new App Intents (Shortcuts) in 3.0. Open it in the reader, go straight to a Smart Summary, or save it to Read Later. #iOS27 #iOSDev #AppIntents

New episode of Designed in California Apple desperately needs a replacement for Mac OS, but negotiations with Jean-Louis Gassée's Be are at the breaking point. But does CEO Gil Amelio have any other options? relay.fm/designed/8

Bulletin is sponsoring today's Designed in California. If you're here from the show, hello! Bulletin is an RSS reader that helps you get through everything you follow. You choose every source, and Smart Summaries catch you up on an article or a whole category at a glance. On iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Quotes is a new summary format: an article's key quotes, word for word, in the order they appear. Every quote is checked against the article text, and anything that can't be verified is left out. #iOS27 #iOSDev #RSS

Bulletin 3.0 is here, my biggest update yet! Smart Summaries with citations, on-device translation, Weaved mode, rebuilt iPad and Mac apps, and improved App Intents support. apps.apple.com/app/id6476572500 #iOS27 #RSS

Bulletin 3.0 is here, my biggest update yet! Smart Summaries with citations, on-device translation, Weaved mode, rebuilt iPad and Mac apps, and improved App Intents support. apps.apple.com/app/id6476572500 #iOS27 #RSS

Am I missing something or is it not possible to control physical devices using the Xcode MCP server? #iOSdev #indiedev #SwiftLang

It's still a weird experience for me, these Apple events being a "work" thing now. A good weird! But still weird

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 😀

Presskit is now available for Bulletin 3.0 release, scheduled for 15th September. If you are a press/blogger and want to write about it, DM me for early access! #presskit #testflight #rss #iosdev

Bulletin 3.0 is live on public TestFlight! • Weaved mixes sources, reducing source clumps • Quotes (beta) finds shareable quotes • Better Smart Summaries use full article context + GPT-5.6 Luna • Improve Title is more accurate, with a loading animation testflight.apple.com/join/XyqLvagI

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I'm now in the 'aggressively cutting scope' phase of a new software release 😬

I really like Claude Code's workflow feature. I've been using it as a final verification across all completed tasks for a release. (Bulletin 2.2 hopefully submitting to App Review today) 🤞 This is in addition to me doing human review, on device testing, iterating while in development, etc #iosdev

It’s Saturday: a great day to do some indie hacking! (Or to chill out a bit.)

I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.

It's been a heavy shaping/planning week this week, as I close out the last app releases before switching to the iOS27 launch releases. I'm going to try and post a bit more over this period. I also have a half finished app that I might try and ship with #ShipATon #IndieDev #iosdev

Indie App Sales is on! Running from July 28th–30th, you can find over 225 apps on sale, all from indie developers! Looking for an app to help get your music library in order, improve your finances, or just about anything else? Take a look, you might find a gem! indieappsales.com #IndieAppSales

For the past week I've been rebuilding my coding agent harness: instructions, docs, skills and workflows. After 14 months of organic growth, it was hard to maintain, hungry for tokens and pushing agents toward over-engineered solutions. Typical tasks now use ~35% fewer tokens. 🧵

A nice way to start the week ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ apps.apple.com/us/app/vinyls/...

I had a super useful one on one appointment with App Store Editorial. It's my first ever one, so I was nervous (imposter syndrome!), but I 100% recommend other developers take these opportunities. Lots of useful tidbits for me to takeaway #WWDC26

Vinyls is App of the Day in Australia and New Zealand today! 🇳🇿 🇦🇺 Perfect timing: I just shipped a fresh new design for widgets. Download Vinyls and try it out: apps.apple.com/app/vinyls/id1... #AppStore #Apple #IndieDev #iOSDev

It's really hard to learn how to use Icon Composer, especially for more complex shapes. With the new speculars and refractions, even more so. I wish Apple published sample icons just like sample code, but since they don't, I made this!

Kyle Bashour@kylebashour.com · 4mo ago

Introducing decant: I had claude reverse engineer the compiled Icon Composer format so you can extract .icons files for any of Apple's apps

I've been sitting on a relatively simple but novel app idea. I had a prototype months ago but shelved it while I focussed on my core apps. I'm now refining the 1.0 spec and going to see if Fable can get it shippable with minimal interaction from me #ai #fable #claudecode #iosdev #swiftlang