Stephan Arenswald

I sometimes feel like MacPacker’s ⭐ growth on the GitHub repo is slow… and then I check the actual star history. Turns out it’s doing better than I thought 🤩

Just released the next update for MacPacker, only two days after the previous one. I missed that at two places the texts where completely wrong (wrong key taken). Luckily this was discovered and fixed with a PR by another user 🥳

First time post on the new account for my open source archive previewer MacPacker 🥳

Great quote. Great presentation.

3 more hours in the Train. Then I am finally in Oulu. The nature with the snow is just beautiful 😍 @ARCTIConference

Starting my journey to @ARCTIConference in Oulu now. It’s gonna be train - train - flight - flight - train - train. I’m so excited 😆🥳

#swift #fosdem starting any time now 👍

@timd_ca Do they also have templates macOS App Store? Or only iOS/iPadOS?

Oh wow, Pixelmator Pro in the Apple Creator Studio bundle has App Store preview templates... Were they there in previous versions?

On my way to FOSDEM in Brussels. But already stuck on my first of two flights because of the bad weather in Munich. We’re not allowed to start right now 🤷‍♂️

Abstracts now available on the website too if for some reason you have an Android phone or <iOS26. It also seems that there’s still 27 tickets available at shop.arcticonference.com ✌️

@skorotone You mean MacPacker being a plugin for Yazi? Not yet. I'd have to look into yazi and lua first to figure out what's possible. But not anytime soon as I still need to add editing functionality.

@sarensw Is it possible to add a Yazi file manager support via a plug-in?

😮‍💨 MacPacker v0.13 feature additions finally done. This is a going to be a huge release. Now only translations and release prep missing. - core: Included 7zip cli to cover even more archive/disk image formats - feat: Special handling for .pkg files And more 🥳

My app MacPacker is starting with 333 stars on GitHub in 2026. I’ll add two zeroes to that this year. GitHub.com/sarensw/macpac…

I got this comment today when chatting with a user. That's a nice pre-Christmas gift 🥳 (for my app FileFillet)

@ARCTIConference This trip to the conference is my 2nd attempt to see auroras. Fingers crossed 🤞😁

Some days ago we had really spectacular auroras here. While I was filming them I also noticed that iPhone Air’s camera is not the best for filming dark sky🤭

@klemensstrasser @ARCTIConference So many positive comments on this conference. Can’t wait to join for the first time 😁

The @ARCTIConference was one of the best weeks I had this year, so I'm very happy to return to Oulu in February. Not as a speaker, but just to come back and enjoy one of the best conferences out there 🫶 If you haven't bought your ticket, go treat yourself with an early Christmas present! 🎁

@iOSDevTools Thanks for the shoutout! 🥳 I’m working hard on the next version rn with support for (nearly) all formats that 7-zip supports as well. v0.13 will arrive soon 😁

#iOSdev tool alert! 🚨 Use MacPacker by @sarensw as an archive manager for macOS. Preview (nested) archives without extracting them. Extract single files. Creating or editing archives will follow. github.com/sarensw/MacPac…

@alpennec @squeakytoy Got it. Thanks for the confirmation.

@sarensw @squeakytoy Internal/private. You can’t access them.

One tip to speed up your SwiftUI previews 🤩 I wanted to centralize constants like opacity, spacing, or sizes used by my View to speed up prototyping. Stored properties: slow 🐌 as Xcode recompiles the file every time I tweak a value. Computed properties: instant updates 🏎️

@alpennec @squeakytoy Whenever I see someone posting an FB number I’m trying to find that ticket. But they are private, right? I mean it is not possible for me to follow up on updates on these tickets somehow, or?

@squeakytoy Here we go: FB21355562

✅ @ARCTIConference ticket booked ✅ Hotel booked ✅ Flight booked Can't wait for the trip to start 🥳

@seanallen_dev 2:45: “you still have to maintain that code base”. Agreed. With all the hype about AI, that’s exactly the point. You’ll get too much technical debt if you don’t check and control what AI creates.

New Swift News out now! - 2025: The Year SwiftUI Died - Liquid Glass design tips - Optimize your app's performance - Swift Student Challenge - Challenges of indie dev life - 100 indie app tips Video - youtu.be/EIsrS4bvWPQ