Artykul 1.8.3

A small Artykul update with bug fixes and minor design improvements is now available on the App Store.

Keyboards in Insert now open instantly. It’s funny that this issue has existed since the very first version, but in SwiftUI it’s still not possible to do this properly, so a workaround was required.

Some aspects of the design have been improved for iOS 26.

A crash on pages with extreme nesting has been resolved. The example was posted in the channel. A classic case of one piece of software breaking another.

YouTube videos should now work correctly everywhere. As far as I understand, videos with monetization could previously trigger error 153, or possibly not only monetized videos. To be honest, I don’t know by what principle YouTube was blocking playback.

Other, more minor issues have also been fixed.

A reminder that we have the best and most responsive support in the world, and we genuinely read and discuss all the feedback you send us. If you have something to say, don’t hesitate to email us.

We discover many issues thanks to our users not because we test poorly, but because we work with the web, and it’s impossible to test everything.

Honestly, I sometimes can’t stop being amazed at how badly the web is implemented on your favorite websites 😁

Voice messages

Once upon a time I was very trendy, very efficient, and supposedly saving time, which is why I disliked voice messages and joined this imaginary sect. Its main and core principle was to hate everyone who sent voice messages, as if they were deliberately wasting other people’s time and as if you needed some special environment just to listen to them.

Telegram even added an option to forbid sending them. And did it for people with a paid subscription. Lol.

Lately, I’ve completely reconsidered my attitude toward voice messages and, to be honest, I no longer understand why I disliked them so much. They are a wonderful form of asynchronous communication, second only to video messages. And I love them both as a sender and as a recipient.

If you need to tell a story or explain something substantial, they save a lot of time compared to typing. And in the process of speaking through an idea / problem / story, you suddenly formulate it better. Yes, I don’t always record them on the first try, and sometimes I don’t even send them after saying everything out loud. For some reason, with text this takes more time.

But the best thing about them is that they’re human. They contain emotions, pauses, awkward moments, laughter; sarcasm and various other nuances are easier to hear. It’s easier to understand a person through them simply because they carry additional information and create context.

And another great thing is that now there’s 2x–3x playback speed everywhere and automatic transcription to text.

This expressiveness and humanity are hard to achieve in text, while in a simple voice message you get it for free. There’s only one problem with them, just like with regular messages: they should be forbidden if they contain only one or two words.

One year of Natatki

My first album is one year old. It’s the perfect time to give it a listen!

Many times I thought that I could have done some things better, or spent more time on certain parts, worked more on the mix or the master, and so on.

This was my first experience releasing so much music at once. And honestly, by the time I released it, I was already very tired of it (a bit of burnout). It’s really not as simple as it looks, especially considering that it was all completely solo work at absolutely every stage.

A year later, I realize that I love it exactly the way it was released. Yes, it’s a bit rough in places, there are some mistakes here and there, but I like every track, the emotions, and how genre-diverse it is. And in any case, it’s always possible to do remasters and remixes 😁

I thought for a long time about what to call it and ended up naming it simply Natatki (Notes), because that’s exactly what it was.

For example, Praz navalnicu (Through the storm) I wrote when there was a storm in Warsaw one summer. I captured those emotions while running home from the thunderclouds and then, the next morning, looking at photos of fallen trees 😬

17 hadoŭ (17 years) and Lidskaje mora (“Lida Sea”; it doesn’t exist on the map) are lo-fi boom bap tracks, like the ones I loved making when I was 17, memories of home 🍃

By the way, my favorite track is Paśla viečarynki (After party). That’s more or less how I feel, just like in that track, when I think that I actually did it.

Black Friday sale at Ekran!

In the Ekran there is a big 50% discount. You can use the promo code via the link. Depending on the region, the price will be approximately 10 dollars.

If you have never used the app, you can read this article. It is an application that helps you quickly edit a screen recording or a screenshot for social media.

One-time purchase

Black Friday sale at Artykul!

Use code ARYEAR30 for a one-year subscription, or ARFR30 for a one-time purchase. To redeem the code, go to Artykul → Settings → Redeem Code, or use the links below.

One-year subscription

One-time purchase

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