Daniel Kennett

One of the benefits of being a developer is being able to go “F**k it, I’ll just fix it myself!”

I’m an old Mac-head at heart, and I’ve been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it).

On June 17th, 2025 I happened to — for whatever reason — scroll to the bottom of Cascable Studio’s version history page.

One of my favourite places in the world is the area surrounding a little village nestled up in the French Alps: Guillestre.

I’ve been shipping apps to the App Store for well over fifteen years now, and although there are App Review horror stories aplenty, I’ve always hoped I’d never be in a position to write one myself.

Note: If you got here via a web search for handling UIKit menus or responder chain actions in SwiftUI and don’t need/care about the context here, you can jump straight to my GitHub repo containing the sample project, which has a much more succinct readme.

Recently, on a trip to the USA, I bought an Apple Vision Pro.

There are many ways to write “cross-platform” apps - ranging from going all-in on the cross-platform idea and writing a web app in something like Electron, to writing two completely separate apps that happen to look the same and do the same thing.

This year at iOSDevUK, I gave a talk on using Swift on the Server with Vapor to build an app’s backend in Swift.

I’m really excited to announce Photo Scout to the world!

Prologue This post is less of a “blog post” and more of… I dunno, a chapter of a memoir (were I important enough to have such a thing).

Back in February, just before the world went entirely to shit, I went on holiday to Saudi Arabia.

As the COVID-19 social distancing settles in, the novelty of working from home is starting to wear off and, even worse, we’re starting to realise that instead of the awesome feeling of “I’m always at home!”

This question comes up every year, and I’ve seen it floating around Twitter today.

For the first time in this blog’s history, I am going to try my very best to write, edit, polish and deploy a post using only an iPad (sort of).

I’m sitting here at 2am, the glow of my laptop screen illuminating my hands as I type.

For well over a year, I’ve been talking about doing a podcast.

Don’t care about programming and just want to see some pretty photos of colourful trees?

For the average iOS developer, implementing App Store subscriptions is easily the most legalese-filled part of the entire process of making an app and shipping it to the world.

Back in 2001 I had a G4 Cube that I loved dearly, and a then state-of-the-art iPod that plugged into one of its two Firewire ports.