https://swiderski.tech/categories/devlog/Recent content in Devlog on Adam SwiderskiHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usaswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-24-kombine-devlog-13/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-24-kombine-devlog-13/Devlog — 2026-08-24 TL;DR Mobile shipped a new Today dashboard as the app’s start destination, replacing the old Pomodoro landing screen, then spent the rest of the week stabilizing it (a squash-merge that quietly dropped its restyle, an iOS-only launch crash, a laggy long-press). Refresh-token rotation kept getting chased down — a second silent rotation per launch, a WebSocket reconnect path forcing rotations it shouldn’t, and a fix for tokens lost when the server rotates but the client’s write never lands.https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-17-kombine-devlog-12/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-17-kombine-devlog-12/Devlog — 2026-08-17 TL;DR The week’s headline is refresh-token reliability — a run of deadlocks, races, and rotation bugs across mobile and backend that were behind random logouts and stuck sessions, now fixed end to end. Due dates became timezone-correct across the whole stack: the backend now stores each user’s actual timezone instead of guessing from a midnight timestamp. Goals got period notes decoupled from outcomes (write a note without committing to a review) and the review prompt got unstuck from being silently unreachable.https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-10-kombine-devlog-11/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-10-kombine-devlog-11/Devlog — 2026-08-10 TL;DR Goals moved from four standing slots to dated periods with a review ritual (Achieved / Dropped / Carried) — the week’s biggest change, spanning mobile, webapp, and sync. The Abandoned task status was removed in favor of a derived state (archived + not done), simplifying the board back to three columns. Backend sync got a full performance pass — batch and delta pushes now pipeline into a handful of round trips instead of one per item — alongside a security hardening pass on the webapp (CSRF, CSP).https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-03-kombine-devlog-10/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-08-03-kombine-devlog-10/Devlog — 2026-08-03 TL;DR Sync reliability and widgets dominated the week. Task conflict resolution was rebuilt around version numbers instead of timestamps, closing several silent data-loss bugs (stale overwrites, invisible completions, conflicts that vanished without a dialog). Today’s-tasks home screen widgets shipped on both Android and iOS, plus a new watch complication and iOS quick actions. Also landed: a new ABANDONED task status end-to-end, inline goal editing, and a pile of webapp UI fixes.https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-27-kombine-devlog-9/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-27-kombine-devlog-9/Devlog — 2026-07-27 TL;DR Big infra week. Stood up a full observability stack (Grafana/Tempo/Loki) and wired distributed tracing end-to-end from a watch tap through the phone to the backend. Webapp got a real accessibility pass (WCAG contrast fixes, CI-gated) and its e2e suite went from fully broken to meaningfully expanded, surfacing and fixing several production bugs along the way. Also killed the client-attestation feature outright — it was never doing anything.https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-20-kombine-devlog-8/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-20-kombine-devlog-8/Devlog — 2026-07-20 TL;DR A mobile-only week — no backend commits landed at all. Most of the effort went into quick actions for adding tasks and starting timers from outside the app (Spotlight/Siri on iOS, launcher shortcuts + a Quick Settings tile on Android), plus a cluster of bug fixes: flow-session break offers, deadline timezone math, monthly recurrence, and a silently-failing iOS daily notification. No release shipped. User-facing features Add a task or start a timer without opening the app: new home-screen long-press quick actions and Spotlight/Siri support on iOS, plus launcher shortcuts and a Quick Settings tile on Android.https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-13-kombine-devlog-7/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-13-kombine-devlog-7/Devlog — 2026-07-13 TL;DR A plumbing week: reminder settings now actually sync across devices, recurring tasks stay consistent between app and web, and a nasty watch lockout bug got closed. Plus watch complication/break fixes, dark mode polish, and an iOS duplicate-task bug. User-facing features Custom reminder time now actually schedules a notification, and reminder settings sync across devices — change your reminder time on one device and it takes effect everywhere, not just where you changed it.https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-06-kombine-devlog-6/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-07-06-kombine-devlog-6/Devlog — 2026-07-06 TL;DR This was a watch week. Most of the effort went into making the Wear OS/watchOS side actually reliable offline — proper token handling, a durable action queue, working complications — plus a webapp overhaul of the Sessions view and a fix for an iOS login bug that would silently log people out. User-facing features Renamed “Calendar” to “Sessions” everywhere — mobile and web. It’s a work log, not a planner, and the old name kept setting the wrong expectations.https://swiderski.tech/2026-06-28-kombine-devlog-5/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-06-28-kombine-devlog-5/Kombine in June: an iOS app fell out of the migration The headline for June is short: Kombine has an iOS app now. Not a wrapper, not a demo — a real iOS (and watchOS) app with sync, timers, notifications, and Live Activities. The longer story is how it got there, because nobody sat down and “built an iOS app.” It dropped out the back of a Kotlin Multiplatform migration that had been grinding for weeks.https://swiderski.tech/2026-06-01-kombine-devlog-4/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-06-01-kombine-devlog-4/Devlog — 2026-06-01 TL;DR — Big week. Dark mode landed on Android, Todoist import is in, and the web app got a near-complete UI overhaul covering dashboard, task views, calendar, and a command palette. Under the hood, sync got smarter with version-based delta sync and proper tombstone handling on both client and server. User-facing features Dark mode — phone app now supports system dark mode Todoist import — bring in tasks from a Todoist CSV export Newsletter opt-in — shown during registration, also toggleable in account settings Confirm password on registration — basic but missing until now Haptics improvement — vibration strength slider now has 10 discrete steps, saves on release, and shows the current value Calendar: add task from session sheet — you can now create a task directly from the work session detail dialog Web app (not publicly available yet):https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-25-kombine-devlog-3/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-25-kombine-devlog-3/Devlog — 25 May 2026 TL;DR — Recurring tasks and daily goals landed — two features that have been in the backlog long enough to collect dust. The watch got a proper duration picker instead of making you dig through settings. Lot of polish across the board too. User-facing features Recurring tasks. Create a task that respawns on completion — daily, weekly, monthly, or every N days. When you check it off, the next instance appears automatically.https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-18-kombine-devlog-2/Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-18-kombine-devlog-2/Devlog — 18 May 2026 TL;DR — The web app shipped in a very beta version. Android got real-time timer broadcasting via push notifications and a stats screen overhaul. Big week on both sides. User-facing features Kombine on the web. Full web client, built and shipped this week. Task list with inline status toggles, create/edit/delete, grouping by priority, energy level, Eisenhower matrix, and date. Pomodoro and Flow timer modes, activity and task pickers, break configuration.https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-11-kombine-devlog-1/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000aswiderski@pm.me (Adam Świderski)https://swiderski.tech/2026-05-11-kombine-devlog-1/Devlog — 11 May 2026 TL;DR — Biggest UX week in a while. Onboarding got rebuilt from scratch with animations that actually show off the app. Task archiving is live end-to-end. Forgot password finally works — and users complete it on pages served directly from the API, no separate frontend required. User-facing features Onboarding rebuilt. New 5-page carousel with a Bauhaus-inspired visual language and animated illustrations — live countdown timer, pulsing watch-sync ripples, a heatmap that randomises itself.