Vincent Friedrich
@vincefried.bsky.social
👨🏼💻 Experienced developer on platforms.
🎵 Hobby musician.
🎙️ CocoaHeads Hamburg Co-Organizer.
☁️ I‘m trying to make software feel as soft as possible.
My posts reflect my own, personal view.
swift.vincentfriedrich.com
🎵 Hobby musician.
🎙️ CocoaHeads Hamburg Co-Organizer.
☁️ I‘m trying to make software feel as soft as possible.
My posts reflect my own, personal view.
swift.vincentfriedrich.com
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Vincent Friedrich
@vincefried.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hey 👋 Since I‘ve never done an intro on mastodon, here you go:
I‘m Vincent, passionate about developing for Apple platforms - specifically iOS - since 2009. I care a lot about superior UI/UX, software architecture and cats 🐱
When I’m not coding, you find me playing my guitar and writing songs 🎸
I‘m Vincent, passionate about developing for Apple platforms - specifically iOS - since 2009. I care a lot about superior UI/UX, software architecture and cats 🐱
When I’m not coding, you find me playing my guitar and writing songs 🎸
The November episode of CocoaHeads Hamburg is gonna take place at New Work next thursday! Looking forward to see you there 👨🏼💻
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CocoaHeads November @ New Work SE, Thu, Nov 6, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
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November 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The November episode of CocoaHeads Hamburg is gonna take place at New Work next thursday! Looking forward to see you there 👨🏼💻
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Look what I got for my birthday today 😍
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Look what I got for my birthday today 😍
I earlier posted that I'm super happy about how iOS 26 turned out. This is still the case. But I just updated to macOS Tahoe and it feels a lot shakier and rushed than iOS. Proportions feel off, some icons look weird and animations are glitchy. The overall appearance somehow looks… unbalanced?
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I earlier posted that I'm super happy about how iOS 26 turned out. This is still the case. But I just updated to macOS Tahoe and it feels a lot shakier and rushed than iOS. Proportions feel off, some icons look weird and animations are glitchy. The overall appearance somehow looks… unbalanced?
Honestly it's not only that I don't have any issues with battery life on the iPhone Air, I have the feeling I never had such good battery life before 😅 After work I usually have 70-80% of battery left. Right now (5PM) it's 96%, and I started at 6AM and even did release testing of our apps on it.
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Honestly it's not only that I don't have any issues with battery life on the iPhone Air, I have the feeling I never had such good battery life before 😅 After work I usually have 70-80% of battery left. Right now (5PM) it's 96%, and I started at 6AM and even did release testing of our apps on it.
Any recommendations for TestPlan tools? Should be lightweight and straight forward tracking of test cases and test results from team members.
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Any recommendations for TestPlan tools? Should be lightweight and straight forward tracking of test cases and test results from team members.
Today I was asked by a cashier what phone I have because she thought it looked so nice 😳 That's crazy, I don't think this ever happened to me before 😂
October 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today I was asked by a cashier what phone I have because she thought it looked so nice 😳 That's crazy, I don't think this ever happened to me before 😂
So… a week ago I got the iPhone Air after all 🙈 It was an unreasonable buy. But it's one of the most beautiful Apple devices I have ever owned. It's definitely on my list of favorite iPhones besides the iPhone X and 5.
And I have zero complaints about battery life. Only thing I miss is a 5x zoom.
And I have zero complaints about battery life. Only thing I miss is a 5x zoom.
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
So… a week ago I got the iPhone Air after all 🙈 It was an unreasonable buy. But it's one of the most beautiful Apple devices I have ever owned. It's definitely on my list of favorite iPhones besides the iPhone X and 5.
And I have zero complaints about battery life. Only thing I miss is a 5x zoom.
And I have zero complaints about battery life. Only thing I miss is a 5x zoom.
I underestimated all edge cases involved in a photo viewer 😄
But I'm really having a blast playing around with some newer SwiftUI APIs for the new photo feature of my days counting app (navigation transition, scroll transition, matching scroll position of the detail view to the parent list)
But I'm really having a blast playing around with some newer SwiftUI APIs for the new photo feature of my days counting app (navigation transition, scroll transition, matching scroll position of the detail view to the parent list)
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I underestimated all edge cases involved in a photo viewer 😄
But I'm really having a blast playing around with some newer SwiftUI APIs for the new photo feature of my days counting app (navigation transition, scroll transition, matching scroll position of the detail view to the parent list)
But I'm really having a blast playing around with some newer SwiftUI APIs for the new photo feature of my days counting app (navigation transition, scroll transition, matching scroll position of the detail view to the parent list)
The zoom transition has been broken for me since iOS 26.
If you scroll during dismiss, it's sluggish and if you dismiss too soon, the view is completely removed plus somehow even that navigation items break?!
If you scroll during dismiss, it's sluggish and if you dismiss too soon, the view is completely removed plus somehow even that navigation items break?!
September 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The zoom transition has been broken for me since iOS 26.
If you scroll during dismiss, it's sluggish and if you dismiss too soon, the view is completely removed plus somehow even that navigation items break?!
If you scroll during dismiss, it's sluggish and if you dismiss too soon, the view is completely removed plus somehow even that navigation items break?!
Today I went into an Apple Store to check out the new iPhones. Two things:
1. Damn the Pro models were scratchy already after 5 days!
2. I DID NOT expect how beautiful the Air looks 😱 It's such a shame the battery and camera are so much worse.
1. Damn the Pro models were scratchy already after 5 days!
2. I DID NOT expect how beautiful the Air looks 😱 It's such a shame the battery and camera are so much worse.
September 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today I went into an Apple Store to check out the new iPhones. Two things:
1. Damn the Pro models were scratchy already after 5 days!
2. I DID NOT expect how beautiful the Air looks 😱 It's such a shame the battery and camera are so much worse.
1. Damn the Pro models were scratchy already after 5 days!
2. I DID NOT expect how beautiful the Air looks 😱 It's such a shame the battery and camera are so much worse.
I got used to the new iOS design and actually quite like it by now. But I was expecting a lot of less tech savvy people in my social environment to complain about it. Surprisingly, I've mostly heard positive feedback! Even from some Android users considering moving to iOS because of it.
September 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I got used to the new iOS design and actually quite like it by now. But I was expecting a lot of less tech savvy people in my social environment to complain about it. Surprisingly, I've mostly heard positive feedback! Even from some Android users considering moving to iOS because of it.
A brief love letter to @telemetrydeck.com.
I added it to all my websites a while ago. Now I wanted to learn more metrics like MAU, DAU, etc. for one of my apps without compromising privacy.
It's so cool how easy it is to set up. Thank you for this great tool. ❤️
I added it to all my websites a while ago. Now I wanted to learn more metrics like MAU, DAU, etc. for one of my apps without compromising privacy.
It's so cool how easy it is to set up. Thank you for this great tool. ❤️
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A brief love letter to @telemetrydeck.com.
I added it to all my websites a while ago. Now I wanted to learn more metrics like MAU, DAU, etc. for one of my apps without compromising privacy.
It's so cool how easy it is to set up. Thank you for this great tool. ❤️
I added it to all my websites a while ago. Now I wanted to learn more metrics like MAU, DAU, etc. for one of my apps without compromising privacy.
It's so cool how easy it is to set up. Thank you for this great tool. ❤️
@benricem.bsky.social I love the croissant update! Didn't expect a whole restructure at all, super helpful changes. The tagging feature is my favorite 😬
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
@benricem.bsky.social I love the croissant update! Didn't expect a whole restructure at all, super helpful changes. The tagging feature is my favorite 😬
I'm very happy and relieved how iOS 26 turned out!
Yes you can still debate how sensible and practical the decision was to use glass as the main design component.
But comparing the first betas with the RC, there have been huge improvements. And embracing the glass in my own apps was a lot of fun!
Yes you can still debate how sensible and practical the decision was to use glass as the main design component.
But comparing the first betas with the RC, there have been huge improvements. And embracing the glass in my own apps was a lot of fun!
September 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I'm very happy and relieved how iOS 26 turned out!
Yes you can still debate how sensible and practical the decision was to use glass as the main design component.
But comparing the first betas with the RC, there have been huge improvements. And embracing the glass in my own apps was a lot of fun!
Yes you can still debate how sensible and practical the decision was to use glass as the main design component.
But comparing the first betas with the RC, there have been huge improvements. And embracing the glass in my own apps was a lot of fun!
Let's see if it goes through before monday 🤞
September 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Let's see if it goes through before monday 🤞
I had issues with liquid glass in a VStack. Shadow was always clipping. Then I found out it was because I also used matchedTransitionSource and it seems to interfere with its clip shape. I COULD NOT find a proper fix. In the end, this is the hack I came up with. This cannot be right 🫣
September 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I had issues with liquid glass in a VStack. Shadow was always clipping. Then I found out it was because I also used matchedTransitionSource and it seems to interfere with its clip shape. I COULD NOT find a proper fix. In the end, this is the hack I came up with. This cannot be right 🫣
I just learned that a strawberry is not a berry but a nut. And a peanut is not a nut but a legume (directly translates to German as well 😄)
September 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I just learned that a strawberry is not a berry but a nut. And a peanut is not a nut but a legume (directly translates to German as well 😄)
Maintaining the aspect ratio of a card layout and showing an image scaled to fill without distorting it will forever be the hardest thing ever for me to achieve in SwiftUI.
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Maintaining the aspect ratio of a card layout and showing an image scaled to fill without distorting it will forever be the hardest thing ever for me to achieve in SwiftUI.
So you're telling me I can configure three!! different layouts in iOS 26 for the tab bar in Safari, but all three collapse when you start scrolling without a way of turning that off? 🥲🥲
August 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So you're telling me I can configure three!! different layouts in iOS 26 for the tab bar in Safari, but all three collapse when you start scrolling without a way of turning that off? 🥲🥲
The reachability feature has basically become unusable since Apple introduced double tap to Siri. Half of the time it doesn't work at all, half of the time I accidentally interact with the UI. Definitely not something that lets me access the top part of the screen with ease.
August 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The reachability feature has basically become unusable since Apple introduced double tap to Siri. Half of the time it doesn't work at all, half of the time I accidentally interact with the UI. Definitely not something that lets me access the top part of the screen with ease.
One day in and I'm really happy with iOS 26 beta 6! The faster animations are a subtle change but it has such a big impact on the overall feel of the system.
August 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
One day in and I'm really happy with iOS 26 beta 6! The faster animations are a subtle change but it has such a big impact on the overall feel of the system.
Well, I nearly lost hope they would actually make it, but Apple made a huge leap forward in iOS 26 b6! Much improved Liquid Glass readability, very nice animation enhancements and a lot better responsiveness overall!
August 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Well, I nearly lost hope they would actually make it, but Apple made a huge leap forward in iOS 26 b6! Much improved Liquid Glass readability, very nice animation enhancements and a lot better responsiveness overall!
iOS 26 b5. Can someone at Apple tell the designers they should for god's sake get a grip of theirselves and fix this mess?! 😤 This is like watching an accident happen.
(Btw I also love that the background says "AI apps we love". I can't do this anymore 🫠)
(Btw I also love that the background says "AI apps we love". I can't do this anymore 🫠)
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
iOS 26 b5. Can someone at Apple tell the designers they should for god's sake get a grip of theirselves and fix this mess?! 😤 This is like watching an accident happen.
(Btw I also love that the background says "AI apps we love". I can't do this anymore 🫠)
(Btw I also love that the background says "AI apps we love". I can't do this anymore 🫠)