Reading Brent Simmons’s piece about following-through on the launch of the excellent NetNewsWire, I thought I should probably the same after Wallachia’s debut last week.
First, I want to thank everyone who checked out the app, and everyone who helped me bounce ideas around over the years while I was making it.
Reminder: If haven’t finished chapter two, you have until Tuesday, September 3 to vote in the poll at the end. If you read chapter two but missed the poll, flip to the very last page and tap the little bar graph icon.
And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t worry too much about the previous two sentences. Whenever you think you’d like to sign up, you’ll have every chapter so far waiting for you, along with the complete Flowers of Transylvania novella.
My hope is to have chapter three out in a week, but it might be a little longer. I’m still finding my rhythm for it all and have been doing a lot of work getting the app’s promotional material ready. Going forward I think I should be able to spend more time just writing.
Assorted other tips:
I’ve seen one crash bug. There’s a chance it only affects people who were in the beta, but I’m watching for it. 🤞🏻 It has something to do with Core Data. There’s also a bug I just can’t figure out that sometimes prevents you from being able to highlight and look up a word.
iOS 13 will presumably be out in three weeks or so. In my limited testing, everything works fine. I’d like to put out an update supporting dark more pretty quickly but haven’t done much more than glance at it. In the code I’ve tried to use semantic colors so I’m hoping I’m some of the way there.