Alexander Blach
lextar.social.blach.io.ap.brid.gy
Alexander Blach
@lextar.social.blach.io.ap.brid.gy
iOS and macOS developer – Textastic Code Editor @textastic and Weather Status for Netatmo. Previously The Photo Cookbook.

🌉 bridged from https://social.blach.io/@lextar on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
@stroughtonsmith my Mac app update was approved about 8 hours after submission yesterday
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
January 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM
More strange "Desktop" downloads of Textastic for iOS: 1360 from Italy, then 688 from Russia – all spread out over several hours.

The previous downloads from Brazil and Mexiko have stopped.

What is going on?

All these downloads don't influence the app's […]

[Original post on social.blach.io]
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Since I needed to recreate all App Store screenshots for Textastic in new resolutions, I used @Sketch for the first time. Previously, I used Affinity Designer.

With Sketch, I created a screenshot template using frame symbols with title and image placeholders. Then I could easily generate all […]
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October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@cdf1982 yeah, sounds like they are running the wrong build
September 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@cdf1982 strange
September 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@cdf1982 here's how it looks for me when I edit the target's scheme
September 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
@cdf1982 depends on your project settings in Xcode. But the default should be Release.
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@cdf1982 sounds like you submitted a Debug build instead of a Release build?
September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@sam @stroughtonsmith @chockenberry Thank you so much!

Using that trick, I got it to work reasonably well.

Unfortunately the keyboard layout guide isn't always correct either when using an inputAccessoryView (checked using a red debug view that is constrained to the top of the […]
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September 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@sam Interesting! When is this value updated and where do you get it? Do you still use the keyboard notification but use the keyboard layout guide frame instead of the notification userInfo or are you doing it in a method like layoutSubviews?
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@stroughtonsmith @chockenberry Did you try it with multiple windows? (Multiple UIWindowScenes opened by the same app).

This probably only works for the active window scene.
August 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@pasi I was talking about iOS, BBEdit was just an example of what other code editors do. Yes, I'm using HexFiend on Mac.
I'm just now trying out Proxygen on my iPhone - very well-designed app!
August 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM