SwiftUI
Articles tagged SwiftUI from the hora Calendar dev blog.
2026-05-08
Fixing Calendar Tile Contrast with OKLCH
How hora replaced ad-hoc tints with OKLCH-derived palettes and APCA-clamped contrast — 132 hue/mode/state combinations, all readable on Mac and iOS.
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.
2026-04-14
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.
2026-03-31
Road to Launch: Where hora Calendar Stands Today
hora Calendar is almost ready. Here's where we are with App Store prep, Google Cloud verification, TestFlight, and what's coming next.
2026-03-27
Native macOS Google Calendar app in 48 hours
How I shipped PKCE auth, WidgetKit, dual timezone, and availability sharing for hora — a native SwiftUI Google Calendar client for macOS.
2026-03-26
Why I'm Building hora Calendar
The story behind hora — a native macOS Google Calendar client built with SwiftUI, without Electron or CalDAV.
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