Lukas Burgstaller

@voidstern@graz.social
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đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆđŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș App Developer. Graphic Designer. Metal Listener. PC Gamer. Hobby Photographer.

Works at https://rocketapps.com, previously at https://itranslate.com, also makes apps at https://voidstern.net
LocationGraz, Europe
Webhttps://voidstern.net

Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

zeitkapsl just got a slick new scrollbar for iOS v1.8.3 — fly through your memories and jump to any month & year in an instant.

Perfect for finding that one photo from summer ‘18. đŸ–ïž

Big thank you to @voidstern for making our iOS app every week a bit better :)

#e2ee #madeInEU #degoogle #zeitkapsl #backup #ChooseEU #europeanalternatives

I made something!

A little - and still very unpolished - tool to create text extraction rules for Fiery Feeds and Five Filters. Click interface for selecting elements, a simple rules editor and a preview of the extracted content using FIery Feeds' text engine.

I'll write a blog post and make this more "official" once Fiery Feeds 2.13 with the improved text engine is out too.

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/site-config-rules-editor/id6746191655?l=en-GB&mt=12

‎Site Config: Rules Editor

‎Site Config can help creating text extraction rules compatible with FiveFilters and Fiery Feeds. It uses a three pane view to show you the views, rules and a live preview of the extracted text using Fiery Feeds’ extraction engine.

Mac App Store

The *real* secret of prompt engineering?

"It looks okay to me."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/the-real-secret-of-prompt-engineering/

The Real Secret of Prompt Engineering

Since early 2023, I’ve been on a journey evaluating claims about the capabilities of generative “A.I.” (yep, still gets air quotes). I’ve tried to reproduce some of the more


Codemanship's Blog

Fiery Feeds 2.12.15 is out and now includes the Bionic ReadingÂź Fonts for the article viewer.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1158763303

‎Fiery Feeds: RSS Reader

‎Fiery Feeds is a powerful and highly customizable feed reader and read-it-later client that syncs with most services. - Smart Views - Hot Links - Finds the most linked to websites in your articles Low and High Frequency - folders shows articles from feeds that only post rarely or particularly often


App Store

(I've though a lot about way to go about it, but there's no good way to slice the switch to SwiftUI up into different parts. So I'm keeping the data layer, but I'll completely rewrite the entire UI over the next year or so.

We'll see how long it take to get back to a somewhat useable state, even with a lot of missing features, but I don't really see another way to do it.)

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I’ve turned off the old text servers for Fiery Feeds. If you have issues with text mode or the theme directory please update to the latest version.

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/fiery-feeds-rss-reader/id1158763303?l=en-GB

‎Fiery Feeds: RSS Reader

‎Fiery Feeds is a powerful and highly customisable feed reader and read-it-later client that syncs with most services. - Smart Views - Hot Links - Finds the most linked to websites in your articles Low and High Frequency - folders shows articles from feeds that only post rarely or particularly often


App Store

Released a small feature update for my todo app Focused, with support for configurable text sizes, an all tasks view, and a configurable startup view on iPhone.

https://voidstern.net/archives/3810

Focused 1.11.4 – voidstern

Released a small bug fix update to Fiery Feeds, with a few fixes for windows on macOS, and the ability to filter for tags in smart searches. https://voidstern.net/archives/3796
Fiery Feeds 2.12.8 – voidstern