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Co-founder and executive lead @ulyssesapp – winner of the 2016 Apple Design Award. Occasional speaker, full-time nerd.
Apr 23, 2020 13 tweets 6 min read
Anybody recently tried to upload a Mac app to the Mac App Store and got this issue?

Well, we certainly did and it only took me 6 hours to diagnose and “patch”. Here’s what I found out (radar #s at the end). It turns out, the icons *actually* were not there… but obviously we had them in the source asset catalog. We didn’t change the asset catalog or how icons are created in months. Tried clean builds, different Macs, different image compressions, etc. Nope

So where was the problem?
Jul 18, 2018 23 tweets 6 min read
Rumor has it, that Apple is recently pushing to double down on eliminating *any* and *every* use of private API.

I’m convinced that this is ill-fated and hurts the platform as a whole. Users get worse experiences, developers worse products, Apple a worse platform.

(Long thread) Disclaimer: Of course, the use of private API is something to avoid at all costs. And it’s good that Apple is pushing for the discontinuation of its use.

But occasionally, it’s the last resort to solve certain problems. Problems that affect UX and totally should be addressed.