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Notes from the workshop

Engineering notes, product decisions and lessons from running our own apps. One or two posts a month, no marketing.

Studio News10 Oct 20262 min read

Welcome to the new onlyapps.org

A new home for ONLYAPPS: all ten of our apps in one catalog, privacy policies at stable addresses, support by topic and a blog about how we build — in English, Serbian and Russian.

AI3 min read

How AI agents built this site in two days — with tests first

Autonomous coding agents implemented onlyapps.org from a written plan of about fifty tasks. What made the code trustworthy: tests before implementation, one strict gate, independent reviews and a growing file of traps.

SEO & Growth3 min read

hreflang for a three-language site: how onlyapps.org is set up

Privacy & Security3 min read

App Store privacy labels explained: what "Data Not Linked to You" really means

Product10 Oct 20262 min read

Designing for the big screen: what FastTube VPN taught us about Apple TV

No pointer, no typing, three meters of distance: how VPN apps arrived on Apple TV with tvOS 17 and the design rules we follow for FastTube VPN and VPN Russia on the big screen.

Developer Tools10 Oct 20262 min read

Colors in Xcode: dark mode, high contrast and generated symbols

Name colors by role, keep dark and high-contrast variants in one color set, use the symbols Xcode generates and check contrast with numbers — plus the grey that failed our own accessibility tests.

Product10 Oct 20262 min read

Blocked in Russia or blocking Russia? How Block Checker tells the difference

A site that will not open from Russia can be in the Roskomnadzor registry — or it can be blocking Russian visitors itself. Same symptom, different cause. Here is how to tell which.

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