Proxygen app is 50% off this week for Black Friday.

And with Proxygen for iOS app now also available as its own purchase at just $4.99 (50% off) it’s a pretty good time to grab it.

Netatmo services are currently down. This includes the weather station API used by my app Weather Status.

More information can be found in’s this article on the Netatmo website: https://helpcenter.netatmo.com/hc/articles/30634423583634

#netatmo

Something weird is going on with downloads of Textastic for iOS right now:

Looking at the last 24 hour downloads in App Store Connect, I'm getting a lot of "Desktop" (not iPhone or iPad) downloads from specific countries for hours on end.

First, 1050 […]

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The amount of cursing I have uttered in last 6 months towards this cursed keyboard misbehavior is beyond count.

https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?si=oDwssL2khSNLVr_y

Textastic 10.8, fully updated for Liquid Glass, is finished. Now for the worst part: updating all the screenshots.

My Liquid Glass update is not going so well. I'm trying to avoid the window controls (traffic lights) on iPadOS 26 in a modal view controller, but the new layout guide introduced to do that just doesn't seem to work in that case.

I'm using view.layoutGuide(for: .margins(cornerAdaptation […]

Weather Status for Netatmo has been updated for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass.

The app lets you see all the important data from your Netatmo Weather Station at a glance – on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

It supports Lock Screen and Home Screen Widgets on iPhone as […]

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Spent the last two days working on a new wind chart for Weather Status for Netatmo 2.0 that displays wind speed, gusts and wind direction.

Tried lots of approaches along the way – line charts with smoothing, point marks, trend lines – but they either looked […]

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Lunar eclipse from Germany (Canon EF 100-400)

FB19968629 — In windowed apps mode, UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey gives incorrect frame when inputAccessoryView is set

(Filing this one for @chockenberry and everybody else who is running into this)

New article on where to store your files and get beneficial behaviors like backup or automatic purging for free: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/using-the-file-system-effectively

:tapestry_app: Our thanks to the current list of sponsors advertising their excellent products and services in #tapestryapp right now. They help support the free version of Tapestry for everyone. 😃

We hope you'll check them and what they are offering out. You never know what you may find! […]

Just a heads-up if you are using Weather Status or any other third party Netatmo client:

For about an hour now, there’s been an issue with the Netatmo Weather API.

The API is returning an HTTP 404 status page („Not Found") instead of the expected API response.

I hope Netatmo fixes this soon […]

Does anyone know if unlisted App Store apps support the 50% educational discount?

For apps using the standard public App Store distribution, there is a checkbox "Offer a reduced price on Apple School Manager for volume purchases." (Your app will be available for 50% of its listed price for […]

"Important Things Are Never Just Done"
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/02/betterment-area-of-responsibility-md/

Addressing some common paradoxical thought patterns in activism, no matter how big or small.

"Will my contribution to a large cause like this matter?"

It does and doesn’t […]

I'm getting a report from a user that the Mac App Store doesn't work on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 anymore - they get "An unexpected error occurred while signing in.“

I also see these threads in the the Apple Community:

"App Store No Longer Working in Mac OS 10.12.6 Sierra“ […]

I've uploaded export compliance documentation (French encryption declaration) for an app in App Store Connect on December 9, 2024 and it's still "In Review“.

Is anyone else seeing such a delay?

The last time I had to do this it took only 3 days until it was approved.

I'm currently waiting […]

I was wondering why dictation doesn't work properly in Textastic on iOS 18.

I just found out that on iOS 18, UITextInputContext isDictationInputExpected always returns false, even when dictation is running.

This API was introduced in iOS 16.4. It definitely worked in iOS 17, but seems to be […]