Last month, I posted about writing my new todo app called To-Day: why I wrote it and how I wrote it. At the time, I mentioned that I had set it up to install updates using Sparkle but there was too much detail to include in the initial post. So here, as promised, is the article about implementing Sparkle.

When I sit down at my computer at the start of a work day, I typically like to plan out the broad outline of my work. This is the three or four major tasks for my day. I don't want a minute-by-minute plan, just a list of the major items, so that I can check them off as I work, and get to the end of the day without feeling like I've forgotten anything.

There are a ton of todo apps and web services available, but they all provide much more than I need. When I factored in how I wanted to learn about writing a Mac menubar app in SwiftUI, the solution was obvious - write my own.

As we round out the year, there are several new addresses I'd like people to use to contact me or get my book.

In December 2019, I wrote a series of articles about using SwiftUI to build a Mac app. And in July 2020, I re-visited the sample app to apply the new SwiftUI features made available in macOS BigSur. Now that macOS Ventura and Xcode 14 are in beta, it's time to build the app again while learning how to incorporate the new APIs.

If you read my blog or tweets, you will have detected that I recently wrote a book called macOS by Tutorials, published by raywenderlich.com. in this post, I'm going to show you what hardware and software I used to write it.