April 2026
hora Calendar blog posts from April 2026: Mac calendar product updates, SwiftUI engineering notes, Google Calendar sync work, beta fixes, launch planning, and practical comparisons for people choosing a faster native calendar workflow.
2026-04-29
Public Beta Week One: Sentry and Shipping
Five days after hora Calendar's public beta on TestFlight: three patch releases, ~24 fixes, the SwiftData hang cluster Sentry caught on day one, and what's next for 0.7.
2026-04-22
hora Calendar public beta on TestFlight
hora Calendar 0.6.0 — the first public beta for macOS — opens Friday on TestFlight. Here's what's in it, what's coming in 0.7.0, and how to join the Discord.
2026-04-16
Real-time Google Calendar sync on macOS
How hora moved from 5-minute polling to real-time Google Calendar sync on macOS — events.watch, a Cloudflare Worker, and APNs silent push.
2026-04-14
Native App vs Electron and PWA: A Mac Dev's Take
Native app vs Electron vs PWA, from a solo dev shipping hora Calendar in Swift. Memory, feel, battery, and what each one actually costs you on macOS.
2026-04-13
v0.6 QA Grind: Six Groups, One Week
A week closing QA feedback on hora 0.6: zombie deletes, RSVPs ignoring taps, widget deep-links, and a SwiftData migration I had to revert.
2026-04-10
How we fixed the SwiftUI appearance bug
I wrote a help-wanted post about .preferredColorScheme on macOS. Here's the actual cause — and the three-line fix that made it go away.
2026-04-08
The SwiftUI .preferredColorScheme bug
SwiftUI's .preferredColorScheme doesn't update non-key macOS windows immediately. Everything I've tried, the diagnostic tests, and why I'm asking for help.
2026-04-02
Week One in Numbers
10 days, 107 commits, 15,000 lines of Swift. Here's the honest breakdown of hora Calendar's first week — what shipped, what broke, and what's next.
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