Benjamin van den Hout
smorkolama.bsky.social
Benjamin van den Hout
@smorkolama.bsky.social
Dad, Nerd, LEGO enthousiast, iOS software engineer. Check out BeerDiary, my app for collecting and rating all the beers you’ve tasted 🍻

Also on Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@smorkolama
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October 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Version 2.3.3 of BeerDiary is now available in the App Store!🍻

This release makes it much easier to enter the alcohol percentage using a regular text input instead of the slider.

Check it out!

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#indiedev #swiftui #ios #iosdev #beer
‎Beer Diary - Review your beers
‎Beer Diary is a fun and simple app to remember all beers you have tasted. Add a rating, comment or take pictures if you want to! The list can be sorted by many different options and is searchable so ...
apps.apple.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Version 2.3 of BeerDiary is now available in the App Store!🍻

This release adds fields to keep track of the country and alcohol percentage.

Check it out!

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#indiedev #swiftui #ios #beer
‎Beer Diary - Review your beers
‎Beer Diary is a fun and simple app to remember all beers you have tasted. Add a rating, comment or take pictures if you want to! The list can be sorted by many different options and is searchable so ...
apps.apple.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Version 2.2 of BeerDiary is now available in the App Store!🍻

This release fixes an issue where on devices with Norwegian locale the ‘sort by name’ would not show any beers in the list.

Check it out!

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#indiedev #swiftui #ios #beer
‎Beer Diary - Review your beers
‎Beer Diary is a fun and simple app to remember all beers you have tasted. Add a rating, comment or take pictures if you want to! The list can be sorted by many different options and is searchable so ...
apps.apple.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Mac pro tip: Use option + shift + brightness up/down to change the brightness in smaller increments. The increments seem different on the 2024 MacBook Pro compared to the 2021 model, so indoors I often find 6 bars too dim but 7 bars too bright. 6.25 bars is about right.
June 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1995)
June 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🤣🦅🤣
April 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A reminder that the supermarkets are closed on Easter Sunday, so you'll need to buy at least a weeks worth of food today to be able to cope.
April 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Version 2.1 of BeerDiary is now available in the App Store!🍻

This update adds reverse sorting, enables autocomplete in the ‘comment’ field and adds an easy way to send feedback.

Thanks to @khanwinter.com for the suggestions!

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#indiedev #swiftui #ios #beer
‎Beer Diary - Review your beers
‎Beer Diary is a fun and simple app to remember all beers you have tasted. Add a rating, comment or take pictures if you want to! The list can be sorted by many different options and is searchable so ...
apps.apple.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Photographing My Fur Babies | Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #076

- Intercept iPhone Network Requests
- Why I Avoid Group
- Sign in with Apple in the watchOS Simulator
- Color Space
- MCP server in Swift
- Macro Issues in Xcode Cloud
- Git Hooks in Swift

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Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #076
Photographing My Fur Babies
weekly.fatbobman.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I’m having fun with the AppStore Connect app (that does not happen often to be honest). It’s a nice touch that it can generate this kind of animation 🤓

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#indiedev #swiftui #ios #beer
March 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Version 2.0 of BeerDiary is now available in the App Store!🍻

This update adds iPad support, extends search capabilities and makes auto complete more reliable.

Check it out!

apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

#indiedev #swiftui #ios #beer
‎Beer Diary - Review your beers
‎Beer Diary is a fun and simple app to remember all beers you have tasted. Add a rating, comment or take pictures if you want to! The list can be sorted by many different options and is searchable so ...
apps.apple.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Xcode be like
March 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Bong Joon-Ho said "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films."

As many readers have discovered, the same is true for books! @xuetingni.bsky.social recommends 5 new translated Chinese SFF books!

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Beyond Liu Cixin: 5 New Translated Chinese SFF Books - Reactor
Here are a few great works in translation publishing this year
reactormag.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Amazon's changing the way the Kindle works on Tuesday, so if you want to download and de-DRM your books, you have until the 26th to get it done. I wrote a quick how-to, for anyone who is interested: next.content.town/p/kindle-drm...
The Kindle DRM Deadline is Approaching!
On the 26th, Amazon is disabling a feature that makes backing up your Kindle eBooks easy. You have a couple of days to download them before it’s too late
next.content.town
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Ik zie al zo gebeuren dat de hebzucht van Arriva, Keolis, Qbuzz, e.a. voor een versplintert hoofdrailnet zorgt en reizen met de trein nóg kutter wordt. Nationaliseer die shit gewoon dan zijn we dan dit gezeik af.
nieuws.nos.nl NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · Feb 12
Europese Commissie dreigt met rechter over eenzijdige aanbesteding NS
#Binnenland #Politiek #Economie
Europese Commissie dreigt met rechter over eenzijdige aanbesteding NS
De Europese Commissie dreigt naar de rechter te stappen als Nederland niet stopt met het bevoordelen van de NS op de belangrijkste spoorverbindingen van ons land. Volgens de Europese regels had het vorige kabinet NS niet zomaar het hoofdspoornetwerk mogen gunnen zonder voorstellen van concurrenten in overweging te nemen.ppHet draait om de concessie die het kabinet heeft afgegeven om de komende tien jaar de belangrijkste spoorverbindingen in ons land te exploiteren. Bijna de hele Kamer schaarde zich achter dat besluit, uit angst dat meer concurrentie versnippering van de dienstregeling zou betekenen. Ook zou een grote speler nodig zijn om investeringen in veiligheid en innovatie te kunnen dragen.ppAndere vervoerders als Arriva, Keolis en Qbuzz protesteerden er echter tegen dat de afspraken zo onderhands werden geregeld. Zij wezen erop dat de Europese aanbestedingsregels een openbare procedure onder verschillende bedrijven verplichten.ph2Geen bevredigend antwoordh2pDe groep vervoerders kreeg steun van de Europese Commissie, het dagelijks bestuur van de Europese Unie. Die stuurde al meermalen aanmaningen waarin Nederland tot opheldering en beterschap werd aangespoord, maar tot nu toe zonder bevredigend resultaat.ppDaarom heeft de Commissie nu besloten het kabinet nog n kans te geven. Wordt de zaak niet binnen twee maanden afdoende afgehandeld, dan stapt de Commissie naar het Europese Hof van Justitie.ppGereguleerde competitie bij de spoorwegen is essentieel om passagiers aantrekkelijke en innoverende diensten te kunnen bieden tegen lagere prijzen, geeft de Commissie als reden voor de aanmaning.ph2Grootste spelerh2pDe Nederlandse Staat is de enige aandeelhouder van de NS. Dat bedrijf heeft dankzij de concessie het alleenrecht om spoorwegen tussen de grote steden te exploiteren.ppWel zijn enkele kleinere aanbieders actief op sporen in de regio. Arriva is daarvan de grootste, met verbindingen in Noord en ZuidoostNederland. ppHet kabinet heeft nog niet gereageerd op de nieuwe aansporing.p
nos.nl
February 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Biggest news of the day? Nope. But Untied brought back the Stroopwafel as a snack option this month, available on flights over 300 miles.

“…there are a few things we’ve learned our travelers don’t grow tired of and Stroopwafel is one of them” United’s Managing Director of Hospitality Programs
February 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Been listening for sometime and this is one of the best episodes I’ve heard. Very human emotions coming out. Very factual, no fluff. Great job
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The facts from Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Aktau
Podcast Episode · AvTalk - Aviation Podcast · 02/07/2025 · 47m
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February 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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They suck equally hard.
February 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🗺️ Just added some cool MapKit examples to my 'Why Not SwiftUI' app! ✨

Inspired by WWDC23's 'Meet MapKit for SwiftUI' session.

Repo: https://github.com/ImaginativeShohag/Why-Not-SwiftUI/tree/main/Targets/Home/Sources/UI/Screens/Map
January 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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whoever decided that all of the useful information about SwiftUI needed to be in wwdc videos, all I want to know is, who hurt you
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Lumon Industries Macrodata Refinement Terminal.
#Severance
January 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Severance MDR Terminal & Dasher Keyboard
January 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM