John Brayton

I filed FB9188387 describing a serious problem with App Store Connect accepting apps compiled by Xcode 13.

If the app contains Objective-C code with an NSDictionary defined using @{ @"key": @"value" } notation, App Store Connect will reject it.

This post has more details.

I just release Unread 2.6 with:

Full-text search capabilities
A compact article list option for iPhone
More flexible caching settings
A variety of additional improvements

WWDC Sessions

These are the WWDC sessions I am most eager to watch:

Add intelligence to your widgets
Focus on iPad keyboard navigation
Get ready for iCloud Private Relay
Meet async/await in Swift
Ultimate application performance survival guide
Meet StoreKit 2
Customize and resize sheets in UIKit
Demystify SwiftUI
Explore WKWebView additions
Meet AsyncSequence
Meet TextKit 2
Move beyond passwords
SF Symbols in UIKit and AppKit
Secure login with iCloud Keychain verification codes
Send communication and Time Sensitive notifications
Use async/await with URLSession
Build Mail app extensions
Support Full Keyboard Access in your iOS app
Support customers and handle refunds
Accelerate networking with HTTP/3 and QUIC
Design for Safari 15
Write a DSL in Swift using result builders

At the New Hampshire Fisher Cats game.

As of today: fully vaccinated. 💉🎉

I spent the day fixing porch steps. In related news my muscles have announced that I am old.

I got my second shot today. With mask restrictions being lifted so quickly, I am going to be particularly cautious over the next two weeks.

I got my second shot. 💉

20 April 2021 #

I got shot #1. 💉

16 April 2021 #

A sad end to a 115-day streak.

I bought a ticket to attend this year’s 360|iDev remotely.

31 March 2021 #

A 100-day streak.

27 March 2021 #

Congratulations to @brentsimmons and the @NetNewsWire team on the launch of NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac!

10 March 2021 #

Sean Harding (@sharding) on Twitter:

How I got rejected from Apple’s App Store Small Business Program, with less than $1000 in 2020 revenue: a cautionary 🧵

Read the thread for the full story. I hope Apple fixes this.

Observations About HEY World

Observations about HEY World:

It provides full-text RSS feeds.
It puts feed discovery tags in the HTML <head> so that RSS readers can locate those feeds easily.
The resulting HTML does not have paragraph tags, just <br> tags where the author pressed return.
HEY World does not work with HEY for Work. The FAQ says they have not decided whether to introduce that later. So for now a HEY blog will reside only at world.hey.com.

27 February 2021 #

I just merged a pull request that represents 6 weeks of work.

26 February 2021 #

Open to accepting iOS and/or Win32/C/C++ side work…

Contact Rob (@fahrni) if you are expanding your development team.

16 February 2021 #

New App Launch: Thought Detox for iPhone

Congratulations, @AngeloStavrow!

13 February 2021 #

It’s not a January exception. It’s a President’s party controls 1/3 of the Senate exception.

11 February 2021 #

Excited to see that Arq 7 was released.

11 February 2021 #

I released Unread 2.5 with a significantly expanded free tier.

8 February 2021 #

Great to see @danielpunkass working full-time on Red Sweater Software products again.

20 January 2021 #

The new White House website has an RSS feed.

20 January 2021 #

I love that Joe Biden thanked his predecessors who were there, and then saluted Jimmy Carter. No reason to mention the other absent predecessor.

20 January 2021 #

“Ah, now Biff, I want to make sure that we get two coats of wax this time. Not just one.”