Engineering
How I Fixed SwiftUI Appearance Switching on macOS
The real fix for a stale SwiftUI macOS window combined an explicit color scheme, adaptive styles, and a safer NSVisualEffectView bridge in hora.
Maciej Szamowski7 min read
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Engineering
Diagnosing a SwiftUI Color Scheme Bug on macOS
A SwiftUI macOS window stayed in the old color scheme until focus changed. Here is the evidence, the failed fixes, and what my first tests missed.
Maciej Szamowski7 min read
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Week One Building hora: 107 Commits Later
A candid snapshot of hora's first ten days: 107 commits, three Swift packages, 21 resolved issues, useful workflows, and plenty still rough.
Maciej Szamowski7 min read
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Five Days Later: The Road to Launching hora Calendar
Five days after I first wrote about hora, the visible app worked. The road to launch was now OAuth verification, TestFlight, reliability, and feedback.
Maciej Szamowski6 min read
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Building a Native Mac Calendar App in 48 Hours
What I cut, rebuilt, and shipped during a 48-hour sprint on hora, including PKCE auth, Day View, FreeBusy sharing, and WidgetKit.
Maciej Szamowski6 min read
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Why I Built a Native Google Calendar App for Mac
Why I built hora as a native Mac client for Google Calendar, chose the official API over CalDAV, and kept Google as the source of truth.
Maciej Szamowski7 min read