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Swift Kansai - iOS and macOS Developer Meetup, Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚀 Swift Kansai is back! 🎉

New to Swift? This talk’s for you! Takeo-san will be presenting "Let's Play with Swift"!

Join us and chat about the latest iOS beta and more!

📅 Aug 24, 12pm @ Osakan Space (Osaka)
👉 www.meetup.com/swift-kansai...

注: 日本語版は下にあります。🌟 Join us for a gathering of iOS and macOS developers and enthusiasts! There will be a 30-minute presentation (Takeo Tsuchida: Let's Play with Swift), foll

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jul 17

Game structure wise Donkey Kong Bananza feels like Super Mario Odyssey 2. Tons of tiny little challenges and hidden things everywhere.

Almost feels like a fork of the 3D Mario series - Donkey Kong is going to continue the style of Odyssey. And I bet the next 3D Mario will be back to 120 stars.

‎A new app for people serious about becoming fluent in Japanese, from the maker of Nihongo: a modern Japanese dictionary. Nihongo Lessons is based off the excellent Japanese Level Up (Jalup) series, ...

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚀 Excited to share: Nihongo Lessons now has an All Access Pass!

Get every lesson for just $4.99/month or $49.99/year. If you tried it before but didn’t stick with it, maybe this helps you dive back in.

Let me know what you think!
apps.apple.com/app/id164020...

‎Nihongo Lessons

apps.apple.com

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 22

Now he’s Japan famous!!

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 22

Oooh that’s very cool. Adding that to my hidden gems slide for Swift Kansai today

Swift Kansai - iOS and macOS Developer Meetup (WWDC Edition), Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 15

Started TWO new Xcode projects on my flight home to Japan from #WWDC. Haven't felt this inspired in a long time!

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 15

WWDC後の注目ポイントを語り合おう！来週日曜のSwift KansaiはApple Japanのデザイン・エバンジェリストをゲストに迎えて開催。発表まとめ＋交流＋無料ピザあり！初心者も大歓迎🍕
www.meetup.com/swift-kansai...

**Note: 日本語版は下にあります 🌟** What's your favorite new feature in iOS/macOS/visionOS/watchOS/tvOS 26? What do you think of Liquid Glass? How do you think apps will use the new

Swift Kansai - iOS and macOS Developer Meetup (WWDC Edition), Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 15

WWDC’s over—let’s talk about it! Join us next Sunday at Swift Kansai for a recap of the big announcements. Special guest: a design evangelist from Apple Japan! Free pizza, drinks, and great people. All are welcome! 🍕✨
www.meetup.com/swift-kansai...

**Note: 日本語版は下にあります 🌟** What's your favorite new feature in iOS/macOS/visionOS/watchOS/tvOS 26? What do you think of Liquid Glass? How do you think apps will use the new

Swift Kansai - iOS and macOS Developer Meetup (WWDC Edition), Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 7

Yessss I didn’t even know about this being a Nintendo switch 2 feature, but this is gonna make looking up words in my game screenshots via Nihongo sooooo much smoother

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 6

By the way I'm running a post-WWDC developer meetup in Osaka on June 22 if you're interested in joining! www.meetup.com/swift-kansai...

**Note: 日本語版は下にあります 🌟** WWDC is almost here—what do you think Apple will announce this year? Curious how the latest updates will impact iOS and macOS developers? Join us

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yeah it's just down to a policy decision... which they made in one direction last year. Hopefully they change their mind?

Transcrybe: Live Translation for Mac

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 6

That would be great. I’m hoping for access to an on-device LLM and better Xcode integration points for things like Alex Sidebar as well. The ability for apps to access camera feeds on vision os would be great too, for more machine vision use cases (with appropriate privacy controls of course)

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · Jun 6

At the airport, starting my journey to #WWDC!!

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 30

If you missed the announcement, I made a new Mac app that lets you translate and subtitle your own voice or any app’s audio! 🖥️

...and I made a spiffy little demo video to show it off!
youtu.be/l4t9fl6S8Sg

YouTube video by Nihongo

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 29

以前「Subtitle Me」として公開していたアプリが、Whisper搭載で進化！🎉

新しい名前は「Transcrybe」。

✅ 英語の文字起こしが超高精度
➡️ より正確な日本語翻訳に！
🎧 動画・会議・自分の声をリアルタイムで字幕＆翻訳

ダウンロードはこちら👇
apps.apple.com/app/id667077...

‎Transcrybe - Live Translation

‎Transcrybe (formerly

apps.apple.com

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 28

I tried FB and Google ads, and never had much luck. I've managed to get Apple ads to work well for me in the last year. Reddit seems like a good next thing to try!

I’m excited to finally share that my new(ish) Mac app, Transcrybe, is now live! If you’ve been following my work, you might remember a little menu bar app I released last year called Subtitle Me. It ...

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 28

I'm horrified to have made this mistake, thank you so much for letting me know!!! I screwed up, and forgot to remove the up-front price of the app for this update, which switches from a paid-up front model to a subscription model.

Should be fixed now. If you paid, feel free to request a refund.

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 28

I'M SO SORRY! Of course, the one thing I forgot to do in preparation for this release was remove the up-front price of the app. It is meant to be free to download.

The price is updated now, but if you paid up-front, feel free to request a refund and redownload for free.

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 28

✨ New app launch! ✨
Transcrybe is here — subtitle anything on your Mac in real time.

🎧 Watch videos in any language
🗣 Follow foreign language meetings
🎤 Caption your own voice

It used to be called Subtitle Me. Now it’s all grown up! 🍾

Blog Post: blog.nihongo-app.com/transcrybe-i...

Transcrybe is Here

blog.nihongo-app.com

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 27

Super interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm gonna give reddit ads a try, I've never really tried that route.

Rethinking my Indie App Advertising

Reposted by Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay

Matt Corey @matt1corey.bsky.social · May 27

I've mentioned before that I've seen some very interesting results advertising on Reddit, instead of with Apple Search Ads. I've promised some folks that I'd follow up with results, so here y'all go!

#IndieDev

https://open.substack.com/pub/mattcorey/p/rethinking-my-indie-app-advertising?r=x61lg&u

From Apple Ads to Reddit Ads

open.substack.com

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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 26

Very very true

Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay @chrislindsay.bsky.social · May 26

Just found it surprising!