Dino Angelov

Latest — Aug 7, 2023

Remove a package dependency added via Swift Package Manager in Xcode 14.0 beta 4

I was recently working on v2 of Rest, a macOS & Windows app I built some years ago. It’s a break reminder app useful if you spend a lot of time on the computer. I had some trouble getting sound to play reliably on macOS Ventura’s beta (13.0

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Showing and hiding alternate menu items in Swift on macOS

For v2 of Rest I wanted to have menu items that show alternate titles and actions when the user holds Option. After going through a couple of answers on StackOverflow and discussions they linked to, I found out it’s now way easier than ever to achieve it. There’s

Movable windows in Swift with no title bar

I recently sorted through 300+ emails of feedback for Rest, a macOS app I built some years ago. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, the app reminds you to take regular breaks. With my newfound motivation for a v2, I got to work. Since macOS 13

Generate animations and video with Go, gg and ffmpeg

I’ve been making some generative art pieces lately and publishing them on my other Instagram account and I wanted to make some animations. Result first: 0:00/1× So far I had only been using the excellent gg (Go Graphics) package for some static art. But how do you

Make a PDF look scanned

Sometimes you need to fill out and send a document back, and a lot of places expect you to print and scan it, but not always do you have a printer handy or cloes by. In that case, you can fill out all the info directly in the document you

Connect a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi to your Arch machine

Make sure the ethernet controllers on your machine and the Pi both have auto MDIX capabilities. If they do, you won’t need a crossover cable. Connect your Pi to your Arch machine. Open the Advanced network configuration and edit your Ethernet/Wired connection (double-click). Under IPv4 Settings > Method, select

Push Notifications for iOS and Android with a PHP back end

(Note: For Android, I only cover the PHP code used to send the notifications, while for iOS the guide is a lot more thorough.) Foreword At Free-eBooks.net, many of our readers wanted an easy way to get notified through our mobile apps about the newest titles we receive, so

1 Year in the App Store – when “Move Fast and Break Things” doesn’t work

Yesterday I read Chad Etzel’s experience with his indie games in his post titled My iOS Indie-Game Numbers. In it, Chad generously shares a lot of information about his apps and the struggles he’d had. He also links to Jared Sinclair, who had previously also shared his experience.

An up-to-date guide to using PLCrashReporter in your app

A while back, I received an email from a user of Rest.app that it was crashing for him a couple of seconds after start. I tried to replicate the issue by asking for the app settings and running it on the same OS version as he did, but I

Dimming an external non-Mac monitor

I’ve started using an external monitor with my Mac a while ago and it’s always been bothering me that at night while my Mac’s screen does dim, the external monitor doesn’t. A few days ago, I decided to see if there was an app that could

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Dino Angelov

A software architect/engineer working on everything from deployment systems, in-house analytics, marketing and recommendation systems to indie apps. Do reach out - always happy to chat.

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