Chad Podoski

@chadpod
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Builder of apps and endless home improvement projects

🏄🏻‍♂️, 🏂, 🧗‍♀️ for fun

Honolulu, HI but Whistler, BC is my happy place

DejaView - local, secure photo streaminghttps://dejaview.photos
Prints.app - over optimized photo printinghttps://prints.app
DaBuoys - built for Hawaii surfers and fishermanhttps://dabuoys.app
The Now - mindful since 2010https://thenow.app
Chad Podoski17h ago
John Siracusa20h ago

Amen! https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/

Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile.

If squircled icons are actually better, then let that design win in the market. That's how we transitioned from the classic Mac OS icon style to the more photorealistic Mac OS X icon style. Developers adopted it because they wanted to, and because users desired it.

Free The Icons

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons

Chad Podoski4d ago
The Roomba app is 584MB, wtf, iRobot indeed
Chad PodoskiJun 18
I had hoped that Apple was going to give us HealthKit data access on macOS this year, but no such luck. Had to get creative and made a companion app for DejaView called DejaViewer to facilitate local network health data transfer. Activity rings on the kitchen DAKBoard achieved.
Chad PodoskiJun 17
Stoked to try this out. Folks at https://helm-app.com/ are on a roll.
Chad PodoskiJun 12
Siri finally doesn’t suck #NewSiri
Chad PodoskiJun 11
Apple Developer ProTip: if you change your app from paid to free with in-app purchase, don't forget to update the Pricing and Availability to $0.00. 🤦‍♂️ 🤣 On the plus side, I can remain optimistic for another day that the pricing model change might actually result in some downloads.
Chad PodoskiJun 10
AirTag that fell out of my pocket while snowboarding in Switzerland in March 2025 still pings occasionally when random iPhone users happen by. Outside in the snow and dirt, still going strong. Any Crans Montana resident geocachers interested? Seems like there should be an app for this. Geocaching lost AirTags.
Chad PodoskiJun 10

I’m terrible at promoting my own apps, but I’m trying anyway with a 50%+ off WWDC sale on DejaView (my macOS app that privately streams photos to DAKboard).

My DAKboard is hands down my favorite piece of tech in the house. It constantly resurfaces photos we’ve forgotten about, turning them into family stories over breakfast or dinner.

Regardless of DejaView, DAKboard is worth checking out.

https://dejaview.photos

#DAKboard

Chad PodoskiJun 9
I haven't won the WWDC 'lottery' in years, but here are some fun timehops to Moscone West era WWDCs. #wwdc
Chad PodoskiJun 8
Just tried Siri on iOS 27 with a simple photo search query and it failed so hard I assumed it must be my fault, and it was! 'New Siri' waitlist joined. Hurry up and wait!