Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk
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I'm Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk, product coach and people manager in Trondheim. I build my own apps, and I write and speak about leadership, product and technology.
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When your app name looks like a bot
Last week I shipped BookScanner 2026.4, the first version with umami-swift analytics on board. Today the dashboard showed one visitor: a test event I had sent by hand with curl. I had used the app plenty myself since the release. Umami counted none of it.
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Answering Apple's App Privacy questionnaire for umami-swift
Since umami-swift shipped, a few people have asked me the same thing: what do I tell Apple in the App Privacy questionnaire? The form is a wall of legal-sounding categories, and the tracking part makes it feel like one wrong checkbox gets the app rejected
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Reporting app errors with self-hosted Umami
Every app I've shipped has many catch blocks to deal with failures which doesn't crash the app. While I develop, the print in those blocks shows up in Xcode, however, once the app is on someone else's phone, there is no console for me to read, and the fai
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Adding a little juice to Scratch a Saying
Game developers use the term "juice" for the small animations, particles, sounds and vibrations that make an action feel satisfying. I wanted to experiment with more of it, so I made Scratch a Saying, or Skrapelykke in Norwegian, an app where you scratch
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Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics
Since I already self-host Umami, I wanted the same experience for my apps without a heavyweight analytics SDK, an IDFA prompt, or a third party collecting data on my behalf. I created a small open source Swift package to achieve this: umami-swift. This gi
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