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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 7h

Same here.

Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sooo bummed out that Swift Connection and Swift Leeds happened at the same time this year. I think it would be amazing to have them in two connected weeks, so that you could attend one, hang out a few days, then head to the next.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I work on my apps while traveling, I realize how badly I have to replace this huge Realm dependency with SwiftData. 😴

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 4d

I think it will :)

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🙏 Hope we get to meet again soon!

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 5d

🎉

Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 5d

Likewise!

Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 5d

I’m flying to @swiftleeds.co.uk for my talk on SDK Best Practices. I’ve been looking forward to this for so long and can’t wait to see the other talks. It’s my third year attending SwiftLeeds, such a great conference! Let me know if you’re going and want to meet up. swiftleeds.co.uk

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JΛKΣ✌️ @mothmanshadow.com · 6d

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 8d

I’m very happy with these StickerApp cuties 🤩 Come say hi and grab one if you’re at @swiftleeds.co.uk next week.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

I decided to rewrite the DeckKit demo app in iOS 26 as part of bumping the library to Swift 6.1. Feels pretty nice :)

#SwiftUI

github.com/danielsaidi/...

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

I’ll bring tomatoes 🍅

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 9d

I've started bumping my various open-source #SwiftUI projects to Swift 6.1 and xOS 26. It's fun to play around with liquid glass in the various, very limited demo apps. The BadgeIcon project has a new demo app that lets you scale all the predefined icons.

github.com/danielsaidi/...

GitHub - danielsaidi/BadgeIcon: Create beautiful, scalable icons with SwiftUI.

Create beautiful, scalable icons with SwiftUI. Contribute to danielsaidi/BadgeIcon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 10d

I watched @peterfriese.dev live stream, as he tried to find a blog post on my website and mentioned the lack of search. The next morning, I asked ChatGPT to fix it...while I was exercising. I came home to an (almost) effortless copy paste. And now I have search. Will add to the other sites tonight.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 11d

🎉🎉🎉

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 11d

KeyboardKit 10 is out! 🚀 This blog post goes through the many new features and changes in this huge release, and some important information for current users.
keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/09...

KeyboardKit 10 is out!

KeyboardKit 10 is out! This is a huge release with many new features and changes. Let’s take a look!

keyboardkit.com

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 11d

Spatial Scenes in iOS 26 is an insanely impressive feature! I don't know if the Photo Memories widget started pushing it, but I found it by accident and it took me by surprise. THIS is the killer app of a pair of future more affordable glasses.

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 12d

They have always varied in width due to the layout difference, but not in height.

Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 12d

Just sent a new business license agreement to a potential customer 🤩

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 13d

Typing on the KeyboardKit 10 keyboard is soon much better than in 9.9. 🤯 The performance improvements have been tedious to implement, but they are absolutely worth it! I can’t wait to release this on Monday, and the new app version after @swiftleeds.co.uk

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 14d

KeyboardKit 10 will be released on Monday, hitting that September goal with a wiiiide 1 day margin ☺️ The website has been updated for the new version and the online docs will be updated this weekend.

keyboardkit.com

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KeyboardKit is a powerful SDK for creating custom keyboard extensions

keyboardkit.com

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 14d

It looks stunning! 🤩

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 14d

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 15d

This classic sketch perfectly illustrates the current state of the western world, and sadly enough it has spilled over into large parts of the tech industry too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKor...

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

YouTube video by Lauris Beinerts

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Saidi @danielsaidi.bsky.social · 15d

Juggling the upcoming KeyboardKit 10 release with another big project and preparing for two conference talks is starting to take its toll. I can’t wait to release KeyboardKit 10 on Monday and have that huge thing off my shoulders.

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