@ariv.se on Bluesky (not on this app anymore)

Huge milestone for Backdrop: we’ve now surpassed 2,000 approved submissions! Thanks to our community for making Backdrop the largest native live wallpaper platform on macOS.

Backdrop 2.5 is here. One of the biggest updates yet: • Playlists - create your own curated collections • Advanced multi-display controls • Motion Filter - find slower or more dynamic Backdrops by scene motion • Refined UI across the entire app • 500+ new Backdrops The ultimate app for animated live wallpapers on macOS.

But here's the thing: 2 years ago I did not know any of this I was a Mac dev building my app in Swift and realised that Paddle had retired their license product (Paddle Classic). I needed an alternative that was tailored for my needs, but there was none The lesson: The value of being a general product engineer It turns out that if you break out from your self-imposed limitations of being an "iOS engineer", "frontend developer" or "designer", and just view yourself as a generalist that can tackle anything ...you can just build things. If anything it just gets easier the more you broaden your expertise. You become so much more empowered doing this VS becoming some hardcore expert on a single thing

Announcing Backdrop 2.0 – World First Custom Video Wallpapers on your Mac Lock Screen cindori.com/news/backdrop-…

Backdrop wallpapers, coming soon to your Mac Lock Screen 👀

Are you building an app? I’m an indie dev with 11 years experience building apps for Apple platforms (primarily macOS). I’ll share any advice I can give you for free in this thread. No courses, no books, no baits. Just free mentoring. Drop your app and AMA.

I've hopped over to the other app: bsky.app/profile/ariv.se

🔥 Our Black Friday sale is back! Get the best deal of the year – 50% off on all of our apps for a limited time #macapps #apple #apps #macos #blackfriday cindori.com/news/black-fri…

@oskargroth Cozy spot in the garden 🌿🌿😭😭

Well that answers that 🪱💕👨

🎉 Happy Thanksgiving! We're celebrating our 9-year anniversary as an indie Mac app company. We're so grateful to be part of an amazing community of users and fellow creators. Don't miss our 50% Black Friday sale: cindori.com/sensei How it started VS How it's going 👇

@oskargroth 👏

Looking back I think working on huge features for 3-6 months has been detrimental to overall progress (and my mental health), will adopt a bi-weekly release cycle with consistent, incremental improvements moving forward.

More quality of life updates shipping for Sensei.

Purchasing Twitter and then immediately, during an ongoing election, start posting tweets to “recommend voters” on what to vote on is just disgusting behavior. With great power comes great responsibility etc

@oskargroth Where can I preorder

Boom, progress update. This app is going places

Nothing humbles you more as a developer than going from writing SwiftUI to writing a renderer in Metal

Life update alert! 🍬 This week I started as a Sr. Product Manager at @King_Games, working on the game engine that powers @CandyCrushSaga and a dozen other games. Really surreal working on a product installed on literally billions of devices 👀 #lifeatking

@cindoriapps @joogps 🤩 so pretty

🌈 Our next big article series from @joogps will show you how to build amazing animated gradients/aurora blobs using SwiftUI and Core Animation. Part 1 is out now! cindori.com/developer/anim…

@_phzn Oh no :( I'll keep my eyes out and let me know if you need any intros.

Designers are made, not born 🧑‍💻 Everyone struggles. Don’t throw in the towel because you think you lack the knowledge or talent. Take @oskargroth, for example. He started his career as a programmer. But to create his app, Sensei, he needed to learn how to design. And he did!

@endocrimes An award-winning expansion, even