A row of copies of the paperback book THE DEORHORD by Hana Videen, with one in the centre facing out so the front cover is visible, with images of a horse-like sea creature, a dragon, a griffin, an eagle and some ants.

lēof-spell, n.n: a pleasant message. (LAY-off-SPELL / ˈleːɔf-ˌspɛl)
The US/Canada paperback DEORHORD is out today! (The UK edition is already out in the rest of the world.) See where to get it here: buff.ly/l4Lbsip
#OldEnglish #WOTD #TheDeorhord @princetonupress.bsky.social

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary - Profile Books

And if you aren't in the US/Canada, you'll be happy to know you can ALREADY buy the paperback Deorhord from @profilebooks.bsky.social or wherever nerdy wordy books are sold. profilebooks.com/work/the-deo...

Sign (if you're in the UK) and spread (people outside the UK too) please please! This isn't just some change dot org stuff, if they get enough signatures MPs are legally forced to discuss it in Parliament.

Nice! I’m looking forward to the Toronto one this Friday.

Playing around with liquid glass on custom shapes. This is regular glass with a 10% pink tint.

You need a background for the glass effect to work.

The highlight effect seems to be using a Capsule shape and not the provided shape so it looks a bit weird.

#SwiftUI #iOSDev #WWDC #WWDC25

An app icon with an orange dragon head in profile with tall pointy ears and a long tongue sticking out on a blue background all rendered as if it were made in stained glass with translucency and specular highlights.

As the designer/developer of the Old English Wordhord, I often ask myself "What would medieval England do?"

Stained liquid glass.

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Apps We Love list on the App Store with a medieval manuscript illustration of a hand pointing to the Old English Wordhord app in a list with other apps like Cake - Birthday Tracking, Claude by Anthropic, Bear Todo Box, CampfireFM and Ora: World Clock.

We're in the Apps We Love list on the App Store in Europe this week!

This is the first time Wordhord has been in any list on the App Store. I feel honoured to be alongside other amazing indie apps like @mercuryweather.app and @lookup-app.bsky.social

Old drawing of an orca, that looks like a fish with pointy teeth and a kinda human like face

I might do a puzzle pack one day for The Art of Fauna with obscure animal drawings - Like this one of an... Orca?

seolh-bæþ. neuter noun. seal-bath, a kenning for the sea. Medieval manuscript image of a swimming hairy fish-creature with the head of a calf. Seal in Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 120r. portail.biblissima.fr. Old English Wordhord

Oops, I forgot to include the image caption. If you look in the Old English Wordhord app all images should have links back to their original source as well.

seolh-bæþ. neuter noun. seal-bath, a kenning for the sea.. Medieval manuscript image of a swimming hairy fish-creature with the head of a calf.. Old English Wordhord

If you’re looking for more strange animal illustrations it might be worth checking out medieval manuscripts.

5 stars. Great Whenever I get sad about the world I remember the lengths nerd will go to to educate people about interesting stuff. 10/10. April 18, 2025. Review_Lord_69

I launched Wordhord v2.0 today and noticed this review while I was in App Store Connect.

If you want an app to cheer you up, check it out (it's free).

Learn an Old English word every day in an app with a unique medieval style.

apps.apple.com/ca/app/old-e...

#iOSDev #OldEnglish #MedievalSky

A black manuscript with gold text in a medieval font that reads Old English Wordhord. A gold outline illustration of a dragon head with long pointy ears and tongue. Version 2.0 is written below in blue text and then a badge that says Download on the App Store again in a medieval font with a red illustration of an apple instead of the Apple logo.

A black page manuscript with gold rule lines and gold and white text that reads: Share words as images. Old English date widgets. Dark Mode and tinted icons and more...

The Old English Wordhord version 2.0 is available today on the App Store!

New features include:
- Share Old English words
- Old English date widgets
- Dark mode icon

As always the app is free so check it out!

apps.apple.com/ca/app/old-e...

#OldEnglish #Medieval #MedievalSky

Sometimes a silly idea pops into my head and I just have to build it.

Add a 👻 scare sheet into your app:
gist.github.com/ryanlintott/...

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A Wordhord bug was actually a Wordpress bug!

If you use the Wordpress REST API you might want to know that sticky posts are being returned in API requests even when they don't match the query.

Bug here:
core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63307...

Wordhord app post about bug:
bsky.app/profile/oewo...

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond.

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var transition: AnyTransition { if reducedMotion { .opacity } else { .asymmetric(insertion: .move(edge: .trailing), removal: .move(edge: .leading)) .combined(with: .opacity) .combined(with: .scale(scale: 0.5, anchor: .bottom)) } }

It’s a Transition animation. Not sure how you would do it in UIKit but here’s the SwiftUI code.

I'm having fun with toggles!

#iOSDev #SwiftUI #BuildInPublic

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Look like it works!

The arrow is using the secondary colour. Also, in my case I'm not using the weights for their typical purpose.

SF Symbol export dialog showing a bow and arrow pointing upward symbol. The ultralight version has the bow drawn with an arrow in it and as the weight move to regular and black the bow releases the arrow moves up and away.

Time to see if this SF Symbol trick will work...
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I'm extremely proud of how Pediapal came out, and it's such a personal milestone of mine to ship an indie app. I'm excited for folks to use it, and I'm excited to continue to grow it. It all started as a way to help me with my family, so it is my earnest wish that it will help you with yours.

I never realized if available erases to AnyView. I see why it has to but I imagine it might create performance issues.

I'm guessing that if # available translates into buildLimitedAvailability inside buildif so the outer statement is giving you an optional.

A conditional SwiftUI view extension that can be used to optionally apply view modifiers based on OS availability. Learn more about how it works here: https://youtu.be/mgplcrJh0K0?si=YNz0IVSiN-3myb08 A conditional SwiftUI view extension that can be used to optionally apply view modifiers based on OS availability. Learn more about how it works here: https://youtu.be/mgplcrJh0K0?si=YNz0IVSiN-3my...

For those looking, the ifAvailable code snippet can be found at the link below. Thanks to @jessymeow.bsky.social for a tip that helped me improve it even further!
gist.github.com/ryanlintott/...

On short notice @ryanlintott.bsky.social answered the call for us and ended up producing a killer presentation about a SwiftUI topic.

Highly recommended viewing.

Thank you Ryan!

iOS Dev Happy Hour - Feb 2025 (Ryan Lintott - Conditional SwiftUI) Ryan is an indie/freelance developer making the Old English Wordhord iOS app and various Swift Packages such as FrameUp, ShapeUp, and LookingGlassUI.Thank yo...

Our expert speaker for February was Ryan Lintott ( @ryanlintott.bsky.social ) giving the talk, "Conditional SwiftUI (Modifying vs Replacing Views)".

This was a great deep dive into SwiftUI.

Thank you Ryan!

I think the second option reorders the logic in a strange way and it wouldn't work if you had multiple else if branches. I'm impressed by your effort to make it work by abusing the strange workings of ViewBuilder though. The second closure doesn't even look like valid code!

I really like the first option. I was trying to get ViewBuilder to work in that way but I kept thinking the other branch would be EmptyView() and not nil so it wouldn't work for me. I think I'll adopt that version but keep the ifAvailable name as I like the reminder to avoid other if statements.

Thank you all for coming to this month's iOS Dev Happy Hour meetup! 🎉 Big thank you to @ryanlintott.bsky.social for being our showcase speaker! See you all next month 🗓️ #iosDevHappyHour