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slaven @slaven.me · 6d

Thanks Bo 😀 I’ve been your Patreon for years now so you kinda inspired it

slaven @slaven.me · 11d

Very cool to see our little midi.guide database we started years ago appear in its first hardware product 👀 (link to section: youtu.be/WOSiTzH8jE4?...)

Bobeats @bobeats.bsky.social · 11d

This is DROP a really clever midi controller with snapshot functionality. Watch full review here:
youtu.be/WOSiTzH8jE4

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slaven @slaven.me · 25d

Our summer grind gave us a nice surprise today: App of the Day 🤩 The app looks amazing in iOS 26, try it on your iPad blog.penbook.app/p/penbook-is...

Penbook is the App Store's App of the Day

We just got some exciting news: Penbook has been selected by Apple as the App Store’s App of the Day!

blog.penbook.app

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 30

Virtualizing my TRMNL

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 25

Thanks!!

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 25

I've been busy with foundation models and glass stuff, but did manage to spend some time building cool visionOS things: bsky.app/profile/dayp...

Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jul 25

Finalist 3D is progressing nicely, here is the new interactive widget on my wall 😬 #visionos #visionpro

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 22

Making an interactive widget was pretty involved 😅

Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jul 21

The widget in the latest beta has a special new power: you can now browse through your week without opening the app. Picks up your Reminders, Calendar events and any tasks and habits you setup in Finalist.

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 7

⏳ Downloading iOS 26 Beta 3...

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slaven @slaven.me · Jul 2

Next, iOS 26...!

Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jul 2

Finalist 3 is out after nine months of coding 😅 It's a daily planner that manages your calendars and reminders better than your Reminders app. I'm running a crazy launch special: get a lifetime license for $5 (five!) dollars

Screenshot of Finalist 3 running on iPhone

slaven @slaven.me · Jul 2

Did you have to do anything else to have them show up? My widgets just don't appear in the Widget app as an option (work fine in iOS and macOS)

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 30

Looks great but agreed the spoiler level is off the charts, was almost waiting to see the book ending! 😀

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Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jun 29

3.0 Release approved by Apple! 29 builds and many months of testing - thank you 466 testers 🫡

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 27

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 27

Congrats!! 👏👏👏

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 27

Finally got my Torso S-4 onto firmware 2.0, it wasn't in the mood to cooperate last week #synthsky

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 26

Very nice! I just bought the top and bottom as VSTs (Korg's 50% sale is on now!), though wish I had the real ones... 🤔

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 25

I wrote a bit about implementing Apple Intelligence transcription and summarization features in iOS 26 beta, pretty impressed www.finalist.works/ios-26-and-a...

iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence

As Finalist plunges into the murky waters of iOS 26 beta, I figured it would be helpful to developers and users alike to share some of the journey. I don’t have a lot of time to write (and I’m a terri...

www.finalist.works

slaven @slaven.me · Jun 20

I've been having a lot of fun with these new on-device models in iOS 26

Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jun 20

There's more to iOS 26 than Liquid Glass: here are some on-device processing experiments, feels like a game changer for getting things done

slaven @slaven.me · Jun 18

It's great to have it in there, but I wish it was aware of all the new iOS 26 frameworks 🙃 At the end of the day I'm still back on Claude Code but they're on the right path now

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David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz · Jun 16

The new version is so fun!

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 16

Very cool to hear 😁

slaven @slaven.me · Jun 16

Finalist got a shout-out from @davidpierce.xyz Installer this weekend 😌

This week, I’ve been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and intimacy coordinators, finally making a dent in Barbarians at the Gate, watching all the Ben Schwartz and Friends I can find on YouTube, planning my days with the new Finalist beta, recklessly installing all the Apple developer betas after WWDC, thoroughly enjoying Dakota Johnson’s current press tour, and trying to clear all my inboxes before I go on parental leave. It’s… going.

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 16

I always have to start a search to use them in the simulator, it's not great

slaven @slaven.me · Jun 16

The unexpected twist was that the glass part of it was the least interesting. I implemented the TabView as HIG describes it, which changed a lot of my UX for the better. Glass was just the cherry on top.

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slaven @slaven.me · Jun 16

I just pushed the first iOS 26 beta of Finalist to TestFlight, fully embracing Liquid Glass reality.

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