Greg Pierce

@agiletortoise
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I turn inputs into outputs. Make Drafts (indieapps.space/@drafts), and a few other things (https://agiletortoise.com) (he/him)

Texas, USA

Agile Tortoise, Inc.https://agiletortoise.com
Fun trivia for my Drafts users out there: The app is primarily UIKit/AppKit. What parts of the main app would you guess are implemented in SwiftUI?
Any good examples of iCloud-synced apps that have executed a smooth transition to support for Advanced Data Protection with an established user base? Interested in links to docs explaining the transition, etc.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/116417392268951070

Apple already provides a Setting (Apps > App Store > In-App Ratings & Reviews), that no one knows about, to globally disable review prompts…they just need to put a “Don’t Ask For Reviews” button in the review prompts so users can disable them.

But, additionally, rating inertia is a bit problem with the star system. Too many apps that earned a good rating 10 years ago are still top of a category even though they been sold to PE and gone to crap, making it harder for new entrants to have a chance

Anyone make sense of why App Store Connect has one of these weird blips every once in a while where they say a massive number of your apps were downloaded? Usually a round number of tens of thousands credited to an institutional buyer. In this case, it's pretty clear no one downloaded 100k copies of the Drafts Mac app yesterday.
Hey Claude, combine these three features from my favorite weather apps into one app, build and run, spin out an LLC, submit it to the App Store, maintain it, pay the API fees and taxes, and send me a check with all the money.
Looks like iTC broke analytics. The link is back at the top, but goes nowhere, and the new links in the app pages are gone. 🤷‍♂️
POLL: For Drafts users…do you use Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) on your iCloud account?
No, I do not use ADP
61.2%
Yes, I do use ADP
38.8%
Poll ended at .
…also, no idea why I received this Netgear announcement. I haven’t owned any Netgear equipment in more than a decade, and don’t ever remember registering with them or getting past spam email from them. Guess they really dug in the DB for this important announcement.
I guess Netgear gave Trump a golden WiFi access point, or the first Power-over-Ethernet Peace Prize, or something.

I'm generally very hesitant to make DB schema changes. Too avoid them, I plan ahead pretty far for what I’ll need. Amazingly, despite the huge number of features I’ve added to Drafts since v5 was released in 2018, I've done it all without a single schema modification.

That's about to change, but I wanted to take a moment to appreciate that run.