Vadim Drobinin - Founder & iOS Engineer

I analysed 20 years of my chats and turned 1.2M messages into a structured vault of my life - to win friends and influence people. Instead, I learnt things about my emotional bandwidth, endearment cycles, and friendship half-lives.

I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than ex

Release tracker for indie iOS devs with App Store Connect sync, Kanban, launch calendar, and MCP + CLI servers. Native on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

I shipped a wellbeing journal and discovered the App Store still isn't sure whether the human body is health, lifestyle, or sin.

Country borders don't return JSON, they return judgment. So I built a state machine for travel when governments won't expose your state.

Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.

How I reverse-engineered PureGym's API to build a working Apple Wallet pass with PassKit, Vapor, and mitmproxy - end-to-end iOS reverse engineering walkthrough.

For almost four years I have been sending out a weekly newsletter with things I learnt and read during the week. Some of those trivia are not trivial at all, so I decided to share the condensed crème de la crème of the Internet in this New Year special ed

For almost two years I have been sending out a weekly newsletter with things I learnt and read during the week. Some of those trivia are not trivial at all, so I decided to share the condensed crème de la crème of the Internet in this New Year special edi