Simon B. Støvring
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Simon B. Støvring
@simonbs.dev
Passionate developer and speaker 🧑‍💻

Bringing festive lights to your dock with festivitas.app 🎄

Smashing your Mac into bits with https://smashsmash.app 🔨💥

Also building runestone.app, scriptable.app, and more.

Espresso enthusiast ☕️ and beer snob 🍻
Took the early feedback on Festivitas’ upcoming shortcuts from that screenshot and went back to work. The actions are now simpler, yet way more flexible 🤖🎄
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Coming to Festivitas this holiday season: Shortcuts! 🎄

Turn on your festive lights at sunset, make them twinkle when it starts snowing, change the colors to match your favorite holiday playlist, and much more.

Out November 25 🗓️
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
New boxes of real-life Festivitas just arrived 🎄😄
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Oh, the weather outside is frightful... ❄️

Soon 🎄
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
COOKING 🎄
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A new sign that Christmas is just around the corner.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Festivitas is FINALLY getting a proper welcome tour!

Here’s a sneak peek 👀 I can’t show the whole thing without revealing other fun and sparkly surprises coming to Festivitas and that’s a bit too soon 🤗

The next update arrives November 25 🎄
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Talk done! ✅

Thanks for the photo, @krzyzanowskim.com!
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Let's do 133 slides in 35 minutes! 🚀
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reached Warsaw and thus ready for Mobile Warsaw tomorrow! 🇵🇱✌️
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I built my first ChatGPT app! 🚀

It connects with my Philips Hue lights so I can control them directly from ChatGPT. After logging in with my Hue account, I can view the status of my lights and control them with natural language.

Here’s a short demo 👇
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My calendar after OpenAI announced apps in ChatGPT 🚀
October 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Can we have all-time favorite slides, and can this be mine?
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I like to have multiple versions of my talk so I can slide into any time slot at a meetup or conference. Time to rehearse that 30-min presentation again, so I'm ready later this month 😃
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
If you’re in doubt about getting your AirPods engraved, here’s your reason: the engraving shows up in iOS. Such a nice detail! 🤩
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Life’s been busy, so today was the first time I tried my golf stroke counter on Apple Watch… and it worked surprisingly well 😀🏌️‍♂️
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The layout glitch when the keyboard switches between light and dark mode, which it does often with Liquid Glass, is 100% reproducible on my device.

Apple knows this bug exists. It’s been in beta all summer and it’s in the release candidate now. And they’re shipping it anyway. That’s modern Apple.
September 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
iOS 26 RC. This happens to the keyboard maybe 1 out of 10 times it’s shown.
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Airplane WiFi didn’t let me down!
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Runestone 1.6 is now available with a few enhancements on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, like this beautiful progressive blur 😍

Get Runestone 👇

apps.apple.com/dk/app/runes...
September 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hello Vienna! 🇦🇹👋
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Project update: Documenting widget sizes for all devices running iOS 26. It's so boring. I just want to get back to coding.
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very pleased with this API for my mosaic layout.
September 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Making good progress on what's going to be the frontpage of the app. I've built this mosaic layout that I plan to bring into the app.
September 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
All SwiftUI codebases should have a view modifier like this.

gist.github.com/simonbs/5c37...
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM