Frederik Handberg

23 🇩🇰 Studying for a degree in Software Engineering 💻
I enjoy building mobile/desktop apps and embedded projects and working on massive heavy-lift drones.

Also learning to sew garments as a hobby to tailor clothes for myself 🪡

I mostly share progress updates as I'm working on my software and drone projects, and as I learn to sew.

Basically, I just write about my hobbies...

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2026-08-17 06:17:03 UTC

The incident that occurred in downtown Horsens was a knife stabbing. Initially, police just said it was a “violent assault”, but they have now confirmed it to be a knife stabbing.
The police have not provided any information about his condition, nor have they said anything about whether there have been any arrests in the case. #press
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https://blossom.primal.net/46796ac4834c403a4fc3051d59605b55a2175ad896bc38d30250611cb1240bb2.jpg

2026-07-31 15:55:20 UTC

I’m in the process of replacing the ‘Files’ sidebar view of my notes app from #SwiftUI to a pure #AppKit version. I thought AI would be able to do it no problem, but GPT 5.6 Terra is kinda struggling. The UI looks nothing like before even though I explicitly told it to match the UI 1:1… And it is cutting corners by not implementing the same functionality. Seems like I gotta do it mostly myself 😩

2026-07-30 09:18:29 UTC

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Just added your relay and thanks for all the work you do with Nostr 🤙

2026-07-30 09:12:41 UTC

Finished Cory Doctorow’s book called Enshittification.
Will read Technofeudalism next. #books
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2026-07-28 16:14:36 UTC

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I suspect this is the inevitable outcome of all relays. I don’t think there is any incentives to run a relay for free, and people don’t want to pay…
I want Nostr to succeed, but have yet to see any ideas for a sustainable business model.

2026-07-28 16:10:02 UTC

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I do wonder why he didn’t just delete all events older than 6-12 months.
People can’t expect to have their stuff stored for free forever, so I think that would be totally acceptable.

2026-07-28 13:39:14 UTC

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Same. I just use Nostr for the social stuff. Basically, I use it as a personal blog sharing updates on my app projects.

2026-07-26 09:33:28 UTC

Copy, cut, paste, undo, and redo is now also working in the app. #dev #Swift #AppKit
https://blossom.primal.net/938d0f8b4b6a64cca8b49221d707c4eaa99fb9858e3966bb12cb5e8108016e48.mov

2026-07-19 08:56:55 UTC

Two cars involved in crash on Strandkærvej-Vejlevej intersection. #press
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https://blossom.primal.net/77257bbdddde0129b99c7048a46be08ca72ce3f5f9e0e26e38774fed8a11b508.jpg
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2026-07-15 14:38:21 UTC

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Yeah, Nostr is fun. It’s how I remember the internet being before everything got corporate and boring…

2026-07-11 12:17:07 UTC

😂
https://blossom.primal.net/6f39f62e68ba356a1f0dd16b2806da63a4f39031c2634909cdcc60cfa3daeccd.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/f56f7ac0ff575beb52bdd616b1a0f9dc716ecefdbada466e7a4a2de28f6620d9.jpg

2026-07-10 08:25:47 UTC

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Cool. So is that JetPack Compose you are using? I soon want to get into Android development

2026-07-09 18:26:35 UTC

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The impact on junior developers (like myself) is not exactly great considering how the barrier to entry is much higher now. The type of work you would let a junior developer do, can now be done much faster by an LLM instead.
But the things I can build as one person by using AI without having years of experience is simply amazing. It's never been easier to learn a new skill!

2026-07-09 18:04:01 UTC

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I think it’s difficult to say if AI is a net positive for society (I guess time will tell). Some industries are obviously heavily impacted by AI and certain jobs are becoming a thing of the past.
I suppose a large portion of the middleclass could be in serious economic trouble if the job market collapses depending on how many jobs get overtaken by AI.

2026-07-09 13:22:28 UTC

It’s kinda crazy to consider how much LLMs have improved since late 2022. I think it was around November or December that the first GPT model became publicly accessible.
Now 3,5 years later and we got models that completely wipe the floor with what we had just 3 years ago.
The pace of innovation is wild!

2026-07-09 12:30:26 UTC

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Compose Multiplatform is the one I’m most interested in. Especially because I soon want to learn Android development after having spent a year or so learning AppKit which is used to build apps for macOS.

2026-07-09 12:23:01 UTC

The future of desktop application frameworks is looking really interesting!
Would like to try GPUI and maybe Vercel Native SDK.
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui
https://github.com/vercel-labs/native
It is very important to me that Linux support is top-notch. Vercel Native uses native WebView which is a problem for Linux as its native WebView sucks (`WebKitGTK`). Vercel Native just seems like a Tauri alternative, so I don’t find it to be that interesting…
GPUI seems much cooler. I have heard about it before but many years ago and was not very mature at that point. It does not use web technologies, which is part of what I find cool about it. Instead it uses Vulkan or alternative rendering engines.

2026-07-08 15:53:32 UTC

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It feels like a waste of time to fight this because they will **KEEP** trying to get it passed.
Not saying that we should give up, but normies don’t understand the impact of this and politicians clearly don’t give a shit about privacy rights…

2026-07-08 15:50:16 UTC

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The biggest problem is in terms of product marketing. Depends on the industry you work in, but for me, I feel like I NEED to be on those platforms otherwise reaching customers is near impossible.

2026-07-08 15:46:39 UTC

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When they try to force me to verify my identity, then I’m just done with Twitter. I barely use it anyways… deleted the app long ago but still have an account. I do wonder why some EU countries are getting that and others are not

2026-07-08 15:43:44 UTC

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I did not know you also have an Android version of the app 👀

2026-07-08 12:28:48 UTC

Teddy and Panda are so adorable 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/34866f99ae192d037b92d2be36ae08f6437b41b01901afdf65d481755d70b5aa.mov

2026-07-08 09:21:32 UTC

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The block-based note structure will be removed because I have implement support for Markdown files.
Markdown support was always the goal but building a Markdown parser is not an easy task and there just haven't been any good options imo.
However, recently I discovered a cool parser and renderer:
https://github.com/nodes-app/swift-markdown-engine.git
I have made quite a lot of changes because I needed more features but it was an excellent foundation to build on top of.
The Markdown editor uses one massive `NSTextView` and then I inject SwiftUI views for images, videos, and code blocks by using `NSTextAttachmentViewProvider`. I haven't figured out how I want to implement support for tables.

2026-07-08 09:12:14 UTC

It might not seem to make much sense why you would even want 20 or so separate textviews rather than just having one massive textview:
nevent1qgsfe8upa4u47r67lf2cjv5zg6rasn78u6jvlfkmt4knk58ukll6assqyz8rz64sjcjhkhqg4jvh59agc5ac6rd0px0s7p4gzdq9m3mtzd4759yxm5p
You could just use a single `NSTextView` and then inject #SwiftUI views into that textview. This can be achieved with `NSTextAttachmentViewProvider`:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/nstextattachmentviewprovider
I wouldn't say that it's easy to get working - at least I found it quite complicated.
In fact, I found it so complicated that I initially scratched using `NSTextAttachmentViewProvider`, and just used separate textviews for my block-based editor. This meant, each block was its own textview.
For example, if you have 50 blocks in your note document, that might be 40 textviews and 10 SwiftUI `Image` views.
This was a serious performance killer for my macOS app, but it also made it a horrible UX, as you cannot by default navigate the caret across different textviews.
I did actually find a solution to this problem:
https://github.com/frederikhandberg0709/Sequential-Text-Interaction.git
But it was complicated and took a ton of trial and error before it finally worked 😂

2026-07-08 06:19:51 UTC

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Yeah okay, makes sense. I had never heard about that username before :)

2026-07-06 18:17:07 UTC

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If you’re on iOS, then I can recommend Nostur. It’s my favorite client app

2026-06-13 20:26:12 UTC

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I generally dislike heavy IDEs. I do think Xcode feels much more snappy compared to Jetbrains IDEs which I used at some point, but VSCode still feels much lighter.

2026-06-13 20:23:18 UTC

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I've found that my best workflow is having VSCode on the left where I do the actual coding and then I have Xcode on the right where I run the app. Might seem strange as the app can also be build and run from VSCode by using an extension (https://github.com/sweetpad-dev/sweetpad), but I have found it to be a bit unreliable with logs in the console - sometimes they print, sometimes they don't...
The coding experience is so much nicer in VSCode imo, which is why I don't just use Xcode for it all.

2026-06-13 20:18:57 UTC

Added a new dialog popup that shows when user imports an image or video that already exists in the Space vault.
https://blossom.primal.net/71580c0be88145cc71eab7567c2c125e9f3a23ba26ba8efbc232828f4362eff0.png
This dialog asks the user if they want to use the existing image/video file or duplicate.
#dev #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #AppKit

2026-06-13 18:48:54 UTC

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Yeah same. Also, I wanted to use an alternative that I was fully in control of and could build on top of (like my own apps using nostr).

2026-06-05 15:08:43 UTC

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Nice! Excited to finally try it

2026-06-05 09:26:33 UTC

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That’s the goal, yes. I want to make a fully native app for macOS to read and edit Markdown files.

2026-06-05 08:36:16 UTC

Bug is now fixed 🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/132b5748af3471c17cf7966f4083456a20cfbf1a46c6baca0efc586cf571352c.mov
The cursor is now changing to the correct `NSCursor` style when hovering image and video attachments in the #Markdown editor.
In the video, you will notice how when I click an image attachment which opens it in a popup, the cursor style actually changes back to the `iBeam` yet again... This is the next #bug to fix 😄 I want it to just show the normal arrow cursor when image popup is open.
#nevent1q…29k9

2026-06-05 08:23:38 UTC

Working on fixing a classic #AppKit and #SwiftUI bug where the `NSTextView` will aggressively override the `NSCursor` to `iBeam` (which is default for textviews) even when you specify that a different cursor style should be used.
https://blossom.primal.net/6f253b8e7a6cf2e3c49f2a13dbf27b5d71e6d205d105241995f702c3d8186585.mov
In this case, I am trying to get the `NSCursor.pointingHand` cursor to show when hovering an image attachment. For video attachments, the normal arrow cursor should show. #dev

2026-06-04 18:29:10 UTC

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Okay I see 😂

2026-06-04 18:27:32 UTC

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Wait what? Is there a TestFlight 👀

2026-06-04 18:26:52 UTC

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The `Cmd+X` shortcut has also been implemented now.
Also added a shortcut to easily duplicate paragraphs.

2026-06-04 18:07:23 UTC

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Great work as always! Love this app

2026-06-04 18:02:49 UTC

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Actually, I decided that `Cmd+Shift+Up` and `Cmd+Shift+Down` would be better shortcuts - they are now implemented. This also matches the VSCode shortcuts.
Now I am working on adding a `Cmd+X` shortcut that should allow cutting entire paragraphs where the caret is placed.

2026-06-04 17:39:06 UTC

Just got videos working in the #Markdown editor 🤘
https://blossom.primal.net/a5a8ac6f7062fae320bdd8dfcaab6a57b6c62c41c4979ec1511026ab3486a0a0.png
Next I should get the shortcuts working to insert new lines:
- `Cmd+Option+Up`: Insert line above
- `Cmd+Option+Down`: Insert line below

2026-06-04 15:45:10 UTC

I got images working in the #Markdown editor I'm building 🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/51f66b6d3148414b0d946af57aad5a08305cb486bcab40a15733d2c47e8cc5af.png
In the old Markdown rendering engine I also had images working, but this new version is a completely new implementation - none of the code is like before.
I decided to scratch my own implementation because even though my Markdown rendering engine was working as expected, I had some serious problems getting `NSTextView` and `TextKit2` to behave the way I wanted. For example, I was fighting a bug where it would apply the same styling to the last empty line as the text before it. Then I tried switching to `STTextView`, which did solve the bug, but had its own problem… It would crash the entire app as it caused an infinite loop bug because it was fighting #SwiftUI over the correct height of the textview. Therefore, the app kept recalculating the height which would eventually lead to a crash.
Link to the Markdown rendering engine I am using:
https://github.com/nodes-app/swift-markdown-engine.git
This new engine solves the empty-line-bug I mentioned above.

2026-06-03 19:30:04 UTC

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I implemented the shortcuts for **bold** and _italic_ to the Markdown editor.
Next I should make sure that the syntax is displayed when text is selected. For example, if selecting a word with bold text, like `hello **there**`, I want the asterisks to show when selecting that range of text.

2026-06-02 21:05:23 UTC

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Btw. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the excellent documentation in the repo I linked to. And the code is clearly commented so you know what the different parts are responsible for. The world would be a better place if all repos were like that… 😊

2026-06-02 20:44:37 UTC

This repository saved me a lot of time 😅 Have had an unbelievable amount of trouble with `TextKit2` and `NSTextView`. So many ridiculous bugs and I just could not get them solved... There is so little information out there about this AppKit stuff, and considering I'm still fairly new to programming, it makes it feel like I'm just guessing without really knowing what to look for.
Now I have a version that actually works really well. I'm just missing some features to add, but so far so good. #dev #AppKit #Swift #macOS #Markdown
https://blossom.primal.net/9d760ad8e0bad60014bb4fe7eb195d7d485e4bfb276eb4aea5bf67398810233d.jpg
#nevent1q…hd0t

2026-06-02 15:55:13 UTC

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Haven't looked too closely at this yet, but looks very interesting:
https://github.com/nodes-app/swift-markdown-engine.git
Could be useful for what I am building.

2026-06-02 11:27:11 UTC

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If I don’t find a fix for this very soon, then I’m switching to Tauri 😅
Would also be a great opportunity to test Tauri. I’m not fond of the Rust backend, but I suppose LLM can take care of most of that. I just have never used Rust and I would rather not spend time learning it as it just seems useless for what I do.

2026-06-01 21:36:11 UTC

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I had a horrible infinite loop bug that eventually led to the whole app crashing. Basically, TextKit2 was measuring 281 points, but SwiftUI was forcing it to clip at 280 points. This caused it to invalidate its layout state and then it started a recalculation.
Now I have the height calculation working, so that the text view will expand or shrink automatically as needed.
However, I have a bug where the text moves up if placing the caret at the last index, then clicking arrow-down or just writing text. This will reset back to normal again when placing caret in a heading.
There is also a bug where Markdown styling only gets applied when first opening an MD file. If adding a heading, then it will not get rendered correctly.
There are still many bugs to fix, but at least now the height calculation is working... Interesting to see if `STTextView` fixes the issue when placing a \n after a heading on the very last line. Hopefully it does, because that was the whole reason I am now trying `STTextView`.

2026-06-01 16:25:24 UTC

This bug seems unfixable 😂
I am now in the process of converting from `NSTextView` to `STTextView` instead. I have never used it before but I will give it a try. Maybe it will work…
https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/STTextView
#nevent1q…el2h

2026-05-29 20:53:33 UTC

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Haven't found a fix yet...
If I have text like `# Heading here\n`, then the newline below the heading will inherit the same styles. I have gotten the font size fixed, but still the spacing is the same as heading. This creates a massive gap between the heading and the newline below it.

2026-05-29 09:50:18 UTC

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The `swift-markdown` package does not allow extending with more AST nodes. Unlike many web based parsers like Lexical and CodeMirror.

2026-05-29 09:45:47 UTC

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Well, I'm back to fighting `NSTextView` and `swift-markdown` 😩

2026-05-28 19:43:11 UTC

Getting an annoying bug in my Markdown editor where line spacing is acting weird but only for newlines right below headings...
Then once I insert a character, the line spacing gets reset to the default/correct value. #dev #AppKit

2026-05-25 19:51:12 UTC

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I just submitted feedback in the TestFlight app

2026-05-25 19:46:05 UTC

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I seem to be unable to send images in dms, so I’ll just send it here…
I assumed the extra space above profile picture would be for the banner :)
https://blossom.primal.net/35142d506ef1bc95724298b8c0b9e6e2f958a056917b98ed7c62d9b46776c7e0.jpg

2026-05-18 13:53:07 UTC

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Same problem for me. The app does not automatically collect notes anymore so I have to click the ‘Import Notes’ button

2026-05-11 17:22:20 UTC

Stories on #Nostr would be a nice feature. Hopefully it will be widely supported.
#nevent1q…2rd4

2026-04-30 06:55:21 UTC

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Not that I’ve tried it, but there is an option called ‘Switch caching service’ in Network settings

2026-04-29 14:06:05 UTC

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The question is how many of those 12k followers are either inactive npubs or just bots?

2026-04-29 14:02:54 UTC

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I did the same, though I switched to Nostur much longer ago but it was also because Damus was using crazy amounts of storage

2026-04-27 10:10:50 UTC

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I also considered TipTap, but I prefer Lexical because they are not trying to sell me anything.

2026-04-27 10:07:44 UTC

I am mostly done implementing support for all the canvas objects in the Electron app. So I’m moving on to note documents now because the last object I need to support in the canvas is the note docs.
I have just gotten Lexical to work in the editor. The experience is very different than my native Swift app.
https://lexical.dev/
This is because the native Swift app uses a separate text view for each block whereas all blocks are just one continuous text view in Lexical which is much better for performance.
I have not yet implemented support for images and videos. Only text with formatting is working like paragraphs and headings. #dev

2026-04-02 22:23:19 UTC

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This is the text view hack I figured out:
https://github.com/frederikhandberg0709/Sequential-Text-Interaction

2026-04-02 22:20:08 UTC

Been working on copy-paste functionality for my notes app. It may sound a bit strange as you might expect this to just work by default, but because of the way I handle text editing in the app, it does not work out of the box.
My notes app is block-based and because of this, each text block is its own text view. This means, a note document includes multiple `NSTextView`s (one for each text block). This makes copy-pasting from multiple blocks quite complicated as these text blocks are completely separate - they have no connection to each other.
This is where my ‘sequential text view’ hack comes into play. I figured out a way to connect separate `NSTextView`s to allow performing text selections across multiple text views, and then I override the default `copy()` function with custom logic to stitch these text blocks together while keeping the text styling/formatting.
So far, copy-pasting works for text, heading, and list blocks. Tomorrow, I will make it work for table, quote, and code blocks.

2026-03-30 07:57:58 UTC

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I’m interested. Is there a GitHub available?

2026-03-29 06:39:02 UTC

I hear a lot of developers complain about AI having sucked all the fun out of programming.
I can understand that if what they enjoy is writing the code.
But personally I feel the complete opposite. I have never enjoyed programming more than now. I’m so happy that I no longer need to be spending a ton of time on writing the code. Instead, I can use that time on figuring out the best architecture for the system I’m building.
When I work with an LLM, I write Markdown documents that I use to prompt it with detailed descriptions of the features I want the LLM to implement. This could include which APIs I expect it to use. If it’s a rather unknown API, then I copy-paste the definition of it so it knows exactly which parameters it expects and which methods can be called.
I find that if I don’t give the LLM some clear directions, then it will start using deprecated methods and start writing new helper methods even though it could just use existing ones.
In general, I think LLMs can be a bit lazy at times… But they can do excellent work if given a good prompt. #AI #LLM #coding

2026-03-24 19:58:46 UTC

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I fixed a few syntax errors myself a few hours ago.
Sometimes it’s still faster to do stuff yourself than prompting AI and waiting for its response.
I find LLMs great at researching and discussing architecture (but they will tell you bs sometimes so don’t rely on them too much). And then I use them for implementing new big features.

2026-03-24 10:50:28 UTC

The pictures are from 2 days ago 💚 #nature #photography 📷
https://blossom.primal.net/1b0a9ad0d19afc0883934ee831b8c396e43ca01d4e69f6d5e32b60d81c5d73af.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/aaccd7498dbde2745f640e47f42cdb8e1bb4fd148f74aeb6b15a43970fb49c87.jpg

2026-03-23 09:48:12 UTC

Now that I have improved the media popup by implementing support for zoom-in and out with pinch gestures and an easier way to dismiss the media popup by either clicking the background or by swiping up and down, I think it's time to work on an easier to way switch between the different media attachments in a note document.
I found this on Threads that I think looks quite good:
https://blossom.primal.net/160dd0df43d643201cec31e5a03a3a197096ea6d1e0142e2ecc12968d4128167.mp4
Video credit:
https://www.threads.com/@rnmp/post/DVeEjuSCmNx?xmt=AQF057FozccuzjLn5mwvLeC3EQH6UDwIhCVqwtNWOpJ-YQ
Initially, I just wanted to show chevron buttons to switch to next or previous attachment, but I think showing the actual thumbnails looks much nicer. I'll see if I can get that working 💻 #dev #inspiration
#nevent1q…hjwn

2026-03-23 07:29:25 UTC

Been working on a different way to dismiss the image popup in the notes app.
Before the only option was to either click Escape key or click in the background behind the image which will also close the popup. Now the user can simply swipe up or down, or "zoom out" by making the pinch gesture.
https://blossom.primal.net/2f28e7cf31d2445f4a9c4ea2e7243a35ddfd713a22d8bd9d75c816de06d91220.mp4
I really want the image in the popup to animate back to its original position in the note document. I do have a semi-working solution, but it's still experimental. I'm having trouble with the opening animation being laggy, but the closing animation looks fine for some reason.
#dev #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #AppKit

2026-03-22 13:40:13 UTC

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Are videos supposed to be playable in the ‘Viewer’ tab or is that a known bug where they don’t show thumbnail and also won’t play?

2026-03-22 13:33:22 UTC

It won’t be long before I start building the iOS version of my notes app.
I’ve been looking for inspiration on how I could design the visual canvas.
Something like this:
https://blossom.primal.net/fc6fcd474d343d118e06cdd270a3e2697faeac892f7cc4868eb4a8a90ae43efc.mp4
https://blossom.primal.net/1d1d7011316d931485fdaa97b8dd2dd9ad14580c370b6f1238bac94b5be51c5a.mp4
Video credit:
https://www.threads.com/@yetishade/post/DVq-KTVgqt4?xmt=AQF0pOAGbicWfDE1jy7RdLcoQ5alBq1Z5LuWkAC06b34rQ

2026-03-22 09:20:01 UTC

An open/close animation like this for folders would be pretty cool:
https://blossom.primal.net/8f5c4fc6004553f50ace46060a586c52ec77a4f524639c522d8e0a373b3f96e8.mp4
I doubt it can be build in #SwiftUI animations. Probably need #AppKit for that. Though I’m not so sure. Haven’t worked much with animations except for basic SwiftUI transitions like when opening the sidebar, it smoothly slides out. #dev
Video credit:
https://x.com/zzzzshawn/status/2035261382481076662?s=46
#nevent1q…ef0x

2026-03-21 23:20:36 UTC

I think it would be beneficial to have an easy way for the user to manage and clean/delete the assets (images and videos) in their vault.
*The vault is the folder that contains all the files and folders in their Space.*
It should show a list/grid of all the assets. Maybe have an import button. Be able to rename assets. Allow user to select and delete. Stuff like that.
Then have filtering buttons. For example, filter by unused. This should display a list of all unused assets - meaning an asset that is not attached to any note or canvas.
In case an asset is being used, the user should be able to see which notes and canvases are using it.
I already have much of the backend for this, because once the user tries to delete an asset, the app will check to see if the asset is attached to any note or canvas, and if so, it’ll display a warning message that the user must confirm before the deletion will proceed.
I just think it would be great to have a dedicated page to manage assets rather than doing this in the ‘Files’ sidebar.
#nevent1q…fv9d

2026-03-21 22:49:18 UTC

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At some point, I’ll need to work on folders.
Think it would be nice to have the ability to group objects into a folder.

2026-03-21 22:30:13 UTC

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I want the infinite canvas to be the perfect tool I envision for brainstorming ideas.

2026-03-21 22:28:28 UTC

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Regarding the website objects in the minimap, I haven’t decided how I want to implement it yet.
Of course, I could just embed another `WKWebView` in the minimap, but then I would be duplicating the same twice, which seems unnecessarily resource intensive…
Therefore, I’m considering a different approach where the app should take a snapshot of the website and then show that in the minimap. The minimap is so small that it does not really matter anyways.
When user clicks the web object, then deselect it again, the app should take a new snapshot. I think that’s the way to go.
The question is if we have five web objects in the canvas, that would be five different `WKWebView`’s which might also be resource intensive. So perhaps I should also replace the web objects in the canvas with a snapshot when user is not interacting with the object. This means, when user clicks a web object or maybe hovers it, the snapshot is replaced with the real webview. But this approach is only good if it is super quick, so that it feels natural. Otherwise it just leads to a bad UX if it takes too long for the snapshot to be replaced with the webview… will need to experiment with this.

2026-03-21 22:09:08 UTC

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Social media really isn’t for connecting with friends anymore. That’s how it used to be. Still remember the old Instagram. Really miss those days :(
Now it’s just for “entertainment” even though most is garbage brainrot.

2026-03-21 22:00:05 UTC

I implemented an object to embed websites into visual canvas files in the notes app I'm building.
https://blossom.primal.net/18330eb0160148ef27ecf7d2bb10e7f8d385ec0410a5b92e47e73befda7b6e79.png
The website objects are live, meaning that if the user double-clicks on an object, they can scroll, zoom, select text, and click links - just as they would in a real browser.
I need to show the actual website inside the minimap in the bottom-left corner. Currently, it just shows a dark box with a Safari logo.
#dev #Swift #SwiftUI #AppKit #macOS

2026-03-21 08:03:24 UTC

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Who gives a shit. It’s not made for people who care about tech like myself. Believe it or not, but the average person doesn’t care about the pill shaped cut out on iPhone or notch on MacBook’s or big bezel on Studio Display… They also won’t care about the big bezel on the Neo.

2026-03-20 22:35:30 UTC

Is it not kinda hilarious how Microsoft suddenly seems to care about their users now that Apple launched the MacBook Neo?
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

2026-03-20 22:18:30 UTC

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I did for a long time as well. I’m honestly surprised I’m not affected by the leak

2026-03-20 16:24:06 UTC

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I just tested it and I can successfully run my macOS app from IntelliJ with the KMP plugin.
Will need to test how fast the LSP is - this was a big problem I have had with both Zed and VSCode.

2026-03-20 14:32:33 UTC

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Yeah, don’t expect to be implementing any big features with local models. They are fine at fixing syntax errors but not more than that in my experience

2026-03-20 14:30:29 UTC

Think it’s time for me to try the KMP plugin in ItelliJ.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14936-kotlin-multiplatform
I only write native Swift code, so Kotlin Multiplatform is not interesting to me, but I’ve been using VSCode for a while now, and the Swift LSP is slow. Like really slow sometimes. Maybe IntelliJ is faster 🤷‍♂️
However, I am currently working on a macOS app, so will have to see if the plugin allows me to run the app directly from IntelliJ.
And hopefully it actually prints the logs. I use a plugin in VSCode to be able to run my app, but often the logs just don’t appear at all in the terminal…

2026-03-20 13:43:28 UTC

These problems are now fixed - moving on to the next bugs...
Recently, I discovered a strange bug with lines that have wrapping. For example, if we have two lines that wrap around, and I then click the top half of index 0 of last line, then the caret is placed at last index of the line above.
But then if I click bottom half of index 0, the caret is placed correctly at index 0 of that line.
So yeah, for some reason it depends on the y-value of click position.
Apparently, `NSSelectionAffinity` is using the `.midY` coordinate to determine where the caret will be placed.
#AppKit
#nevent1q…tzcq

2026-03-20 10:06:03 UTC

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Think about an LLM but for music. You tell it what you want, perhaps you give it some songs you like, and then it generates music for you. I assume it already exists.

2026-03-20 09:59:41 UTC

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**Another problem I just discovered:**
If we have two columns with two rows, then placing cursor in the first cell (col 1 row 1), clicking arrow down key you'd expect the cursor to move down to cell 3 (col 1 row 2), but that's not what happens. Instead the cursor moves to cell 2 (col 2 row 1).

2026-03-20 09:55:59 UTC

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Progress made: The floating formatting toolbar now works as expected in table blocks. I also got text alignment working.
I do notice a problem when selecting across multiple rows and columns, then applying a style like bold to the entire selected range does not work at all...

2026-03-20 09:38:19 UTC

From the information I can find, this band called Obsidian Swing is AI music, but holy shit it actually sounds really good 🤯 #rock
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCFn4m_PRNIJNGBJCW9n9xlw

2026-03-20 08:17:41 UTC

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Still bugs to be fixed, but this is the latest version of the table:
#nevent1q…23z9

2026-03-20 08:16:40 UTC

I implemented a table block for my notes app.
The total table width can be resized but also each individual column.
Columns and rows can be added and removed in the context menu.
I’m having a problem with the floating formatting toolbar not appearing when selecting text in the table. So yeah, not completely working yet - a few bugs to be fixed. Also need to get all text formatting working. E.g. text alignment currently isn’t working. #dev
https://blossom.primal.net/5211330648ce8f6bafe3ade9d528064dd7decc27760444421e7ff931adccab85.jpg

2026-03-20 07:21:44 UTC

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I finally figured out a fix 🎉
The fix was to just not use the `Grid` provided by SwiftUI... Instead I built my own solution. Why is #SwiftUI so buggy 😂
To represent a grid, I just use a `VStack` with a `ForEach` loop. Then there are `HStack`'s for each row. Inside, I have another `ForEach` to represent all the cells in a row.
Looking back, I should have just dropped the standard `Grid`, but I never used it before, and honestly, I feel like it was just such a stupid bug that I thought it was me who had done something wrong...

2026-03-19 19:46:03 UTC

Working on implementing support for tables in my notes app. Having trouble with `NSTextView` inside table cells not extending full height.
Like if we have two cells in a row (which means there are two columns), then resizing column 1 will cause the text to wrap around. Cell 2 in column 2 will then increase its height leaving empty area below. This empty area is not clickable because the textview is not extending all the available height...
Funny enough, when closing and reopening the note, then the height is calculated correctly. This means the available area is clickable. But as soon as I make a resize adjustment to a column divider, this available height is not calculated correctly... #bug

2026-03-19 13:41:31 UTC

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I realize now, that the original note already included a Blossom image:
blossom.primal.net/718d2204523067af2cb223de0fa4ffcea704c84f1e146ea980c906f13c56a491

2026-03-19 13:32:50 UTC

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The reason why I didn't think the image was Blossom, was because I could not find it when checking bouquet.slidestr.net. I added blossom.primal.net as a server, but the image did not show up...
However, my private relay using Haven app on iOS did fetch and download the Blossom image correctly.

2026-03-19 13:30:57 UTC

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So apparently the Nostur client is replacing blossom.primal.net with the same image from Nostr.build instead:
```
"created_at":1770906970,"content":"I don’t really like winter, but can’t deny snow is beautiful ❄️\nhttps://image.nostr.build/91a2b631eb2b25b5b2785b2ed244f0eb6c1440f5ef98f58842e5a21ced9361cd.jpg","id":"2caeaddabc91ca58578a8732577fcb7c6020abd95193232c09c9236434a5aba0","sig":"1c4939053462fae35edfb56535cc1401ff6a277e4eef6b9e4ee36f3bcee3c88b898e6e8f993c279134a64677540486b811cc57a2a8113049a28f12905fa04eff","pubkey":"9c9f81ed795f0f5efa558932824687d84fc7e6a4cfa6db5d6d3b50fcb7ffaec2","tags":[["imeta","url https://image.nostr.build/91a2b631eb2b25b5b2785b2ed244f0eb6c1440f5ef98f58842e5a21ced9361cd.jpg","dim 2800x3734","blurhash LoIrW[t7xuxu4mjuayayM{j?RjM{","sha256 ca98e7aa27869ec211300e9bbda2e6b971fe6327ae0df52224e59f2f96d7b84c"],["client","Nostur","31990:9be0be0fc079548233231614e4e1efc9f28b0db398011efeecf05fe570e5dd33:1685868693432"]],"kind":1}
```
Notice how `sha256 ca98e7aa27869ec211300e9bbda2e6b971fe6327ae0df52224e59f2f96d7b84c` is matching.
So I guess this confirms the image is actually Blossom.
It's just interesting how it's not available at `https://npub1nj0crmtetu84a7j43yegy358mp8u0e4ye7ndkhtd8dg0edll4mpqn52gqz.blossom.band/ca98e7aa27869ec211300e9bbda2e6b971fe6327ae0df52224e59f2f96d7b84c`.

2026-03-19 13:25:56 UTC

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Idk if the original note already included a Blossom image. I find it kinda confusing.
The image URL in the original note is:
https://r2.primal.net/cache/e/67/22/e6722445dd628f08a03465a6d5169b3197f0e63e53ace29b0784974949b88ec8.jpg
When I try `https://blossom.primal.net/e6722445dd628f08a03465a6d5169b3197f0e63e53ace29b0784974949b88ec8` I get no results.
But then inside the JSON I see `"sha256 ca98e7aa27869ec211300e9bbda2e6b971fe6327ae0df52224e59f2f96d7b84c"` which is the hash of the image. This is available at `blossom.primal.net/ca98e7aa27869ec211300e9bbda2e6b971fe6327ae0df52224e59f2f96d7b84c` which redirects to `https://r2.primal.net/cache/e/67/22/e6722445dd628f08a03465a6d5169b3197f0e63e53ace29b0784974949b88ec8.jpg`.
So I guess the image was actually a Blossom to begin with 🤔

2026-03-19 09:44:30 UTC

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How do I know if an image hosted on Nostr.build is Blossom?
Like this one: https://image.nostr.build/5bd4d5ee0004ffe8fdf6eb208f3f0dd3b9b5d79e66680859dda3b0e7b5b6cab7.jpg

2026-03-19 09:25:29 UTC

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Okay thanks. So I suppose that must mean all my images on Nostr.build aren’t using Blossom

2026-03-18 23:23:55 UTC

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What is the URL for Blossom on Nostr.build?
Have tried a few different, but bouquet.slidestr.net is not finding any of my Blossom media…
https://blossom.primal.net/21f6f08eec2aa36412df41c563e150999b781a5bf88f5632e337a0bba52d1ef0.jpg