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Thorsten Stark

@thostark.bsky.social

iOS Developer since 2009 – doing Swift, SwiftUI, Objc, macOS, UI/UX, CI/CD, git, automation and a bit more. Developer of @batteriesapp.bsky.social

114 Followers  |  141 Following  |  37 Posts  |  Joined: 05.02.2024  |  2.0061

Latest posts by thostark.bsky.social on Bluesky

Good to know. But I must admit that I expected Apple at least to allow that you can have privacy for you and your code.

26.06.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good point. I’m afraid you have to sign in if you what to use more tokens than you get with the free version provided through Apple 😞

26.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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iOS 26 features that you might not know yet 📲

12.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Until now I didn’t see any horror stories from the first beta. Wirst things are there the new UI doesn’t work in all places very well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11.06.2025 09:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not until now, but I only took my main media consumption iPad 😉

10.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But what about the nice snapping cursor they had before? That was one of the best features on iPad.

09.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounded like “Swift Assist” is more like “We put ChatGPT in Xcode”. I hope I’m wrong.

09.06.2025 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know your pain. I’m currently fighting some Swift Data migrations, but also got some working in the past 😅

05.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔋 Batteries At Home by @thostark.bsky.social keeps track of all your household batteries so you’re never caught without power. Smart, simple, and essential! Part of our #AprilMemberShoutout about European Apps! ⚡
👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/great...

01.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Member Shoutout April 2025 | TelemetryDeck Explore useful, privacy-friendly apps from the EU in our April 2025 Member Shoutout!

Who says the EU can’t build brilliant apps? ✨

This month’s #MemberShoutout highlights creative, clever, and useful apps made in the European Union. From mood tracking to book journaling — discover the developers behind them:

telemetrydeck.com/blog/eu-apps...

23.04.2025 13:35 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 3
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‎DevMatic Tools im Mac App Store ‎DevMatic ist Ihr unverzichtbarer Begleiter für die Entwicklung von iOS und macOS und bietet eine leistungsstarke Suite von Formatierungs- und Umwandlungstools. Transformieren und validieren Sie Datumsformate, Zahlen und Zeitintervalle mit Leichtigkeit. Egal, ob Sie debuggen, testen oder schnelle Fo…

Built this for myself.
Realized it’s actually kinda useful.
So hey — meet DevMatic Tools 🛠️
A lightweight toolkit for devs who just want to check how different formatter options and their code look like.
apps.apple.com/de/app/devma...
#devtools #macOS #indiedev #iosdev

10.04.2025 06:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wir suchen: Senior iOS Entwickler (m/w/d), der unser Team verstärkt Für die Entwicklung anspruchsvoller Mobile-Projekte suchen wir einen Senior iOS Entwickler [m/w/d], der unsere Mobile-Abteilung verstärkt.

Wir wollen unser Team erweitern und würden uns über einen oder eine erfahrene iOS EntwicklerIn freuen. Zu erwarten ist ein tolles, inspirierendes Umfeld, ein mega Team, sehr spannende Projekte und Kunden. 🖖
#ios #swift #developer #jobsearch #berlin
https://tbo.de/jobs/senior-ios-entwickler-in/

25.03.2025 07:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of Raycast settings showing how to activate the hyper key feature

Screenshot of Raycast settings showing how to activate the hyper key feature

I just discovered that @raycast.com now has its own #hyperkey feature. So you don't need any other tool for that anymore. To enable the hyper key got to raycast settings > advanced > hyper key #dev #macos #tools #iosdev

05.03.2025 14:40 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Werkstudent im iOS Entwicklerteam (m/w/d) - TBO | Design & Tech Agency

Wir suchen ebenso iOS-Unterstützung von studentischer Seite. Bei Fragen gerne melden 😉 #ios #iosdev #jobs #swiftlang #berlin https://tbo.de/jobs/werkstudent-in-im-ios-entwicklerteam/

26.02.2025 14:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wir suchen: Senior iOS Entwickler (m/w/d), der unser Team verstärkt Für die Entwicklung anspruchsvoller Mobile-Projekte suchen wir einen Senior iOS Entwickler [m/w/d], der unsere Mobile-Abteilung verstärkt.

Wir suchen eine/n erfahrene/n iOS EntwicklerIn für unser Team. Idealerweise in Berlin, damit wir uns auch mal im Office treffen können 😉
Bei Fragen auch gerne an mich wenden. #ios #jobs #iosjobs #berlin #swiftlang https://tbo.de/jobs/senior-ios-entwickler-in/

26.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can nearly see your intention in this image 😉

25.02.2025 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I didn’t find a reason to use them yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

25.02.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m curious if there are any Swift Data experts out there. I’m trying to optimize a batch insert operation for 200k entities. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

29.01.2025 17:33 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Have fun 😉

27.12.2024 20:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right, that’s what I meant. I think to remember that the „original“ cover flows used perspective distortion to create the stacked effect and prevent this flipping

15.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nice one. I’m currently implementing a theme feature, too. I would spread the tiles more on the y axis to avoid this jumping when switching the top most tile to the next one. It would also allow the users to catch more themes with the eye at a time.

15.12.2024 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

14.12.2024 21:10 — 👍 10150    🔁 3764    💬 232    📌 154
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Case insensitive string comparison in Swift Discover how string comparison methods from Foundation outperform basic case conversion, ensuring precise, efficient, and culturally aware comparisons in our applications.

For case-insensitive string comparison in #SwiftLang, converting strings to a common case and using == can give incorrect results in some languages. Instead, we can use compare(_:options:) or localizedStandardCompare(_:) for accurate locale-aware comparisons:
nilcoalescing.com/blog/CaseIns...

13.12.2024 09:31 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

If it is about a url, you may try to work with Etags (if the server supports it). You need to store the Etag from the first response and pass it to the next request. The server should return status code 302 (or 304, not sure at the moment) when noting changed or 200 with content when changed.

06.12.2024 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UnknownDecodable.swift GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I recently discovered the idea of an UnknownDecodable. It makes our lives with enums and api changes a lot easier: gist.github.com/nh7a/e4d93a6... #iosdev #swiftlang

06.12.2024 07:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Follow all the iOS devs! 😍
Here’s a ton of starter packs
#swiftLang

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03.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 59    🔁 28    💬 5    📌 5
We have new swag
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🎁 From now until the end of December, each referral to Warp is 1 entry into our Holiday Referrals Giveaway!

Here’s what’s up for grabs:

- North Face backpacks
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We’ll randomly send out swag to some of the first 200 to repost this!

youtu.be/ZRk7I0Np1hk

03.12.2024 15:00 — 👍 44    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 18

I would be interested, too. Only did the Vision Pro Demo few weeks ago.

03.12.2024 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They have Apple Intelligence session?! 😳

03.12.2024 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! I can imagine it is a bit cumbersome to manually add that much people. That would be a good feature request for a third party client.

29.11.2024 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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