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Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic couple of weeks — welcome to another issue of the newsletter!
I can’t believe it’s already the end of the year, time really flies when you’re having fun and you’re busy!
This year has truly had it all, after launching Helm in 2024 and being indie for a few months, I joined RevenueCat and went back to full-time employment in January of this year, with a clear goal to improve the user experience across the product.
Throughout the course of the year, I continued running webinars, shipping app updates, attending conferences, curating issues of the newsletter and working full-time at RevenueCat and the truth is that it has been a lot of fun.
However, over the past few months I have felt like I was stretched a bit thin and really wanted to get some time back to focus more on my indie apps and I am super happy to share that, as of January, I will be doing exactly that!
As you may already know, Hidde and I have been working together on several apps for quite some time. We’ve now decided to take the next step and start a new app development studio, where we’ll continue building great products like Helm and NowPlaying, while also helping others create fantastic software.
For our work at RevenueCat, this means we’ll be transitioning to part-time roles, while continuing to ship features that improve the developer experience across the product.
We are super grateful to RevenueCat for giving us the freedom to focus on our own work while still supporting their efforts.
If you’d like to find out more about our roadmap and plans for the new year, make sure you check out our latest post on the Helm blog.
As far as the iOS CI Newsletter goes, I will continue strong next year and I want to also use this opportunity to thank you for the continued support and all of this year’s sponsors for helping me continue on my mission to provide free quality content for the community ❤️.
Hope you all have a fantastic end of the year today and start 2026 in the best possible way! 🥂🍾
Now, let’s dive into today’s issue!
🐙 GitHub’s Platform fee explained
Earlier this month, GitHub announced plans to introduce a new platform fee starting in March 2026, applied to every GitHub Actions job minute, regardless of where it runs. This change would have affected third-party providers such as Namespace, which estimated an average 25% price increase for customers as a result.
A few weeks later, the situation shifted. After listening to community feedback, GitHub acknowledged that while the fee was intended to offset the real costs of maintaining the Actions platform, more discussion was needed. As a result, GitHub has decided to postpone the introduction of the platform fee for now.
✂️ How monday.com cut their CI build times in half
Do you have a large codebase and struggle with your CI/CD builds taking too long and slowing your team down? Have you considered modularizing your codebase to mitigate this?
If you ask yourself these questions, make sure you check out this article on the Tuist blog that goes through how monday.com managed to cut their CI times in half by migrating to Tuist.
🪝 How the new App Store Connect webhooks can power your automations
During this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced webhooks to App Store Connect. These webhooks let you react to a wide range of events, such as build upload status changes or app version state updates.
As Harry Li explains in a great article on the topic, this new capability unlocks powerful new CI/CD automation workflows. I also recently shared a post showing how you can use these webhooks to react to user feedback in real time, if that’s something you’d like to explore further.
🤖 How to use the Subprocess Swift Package to run commands from Swift
Are you working on a Command Line Tool or script in Swift for one of your automations and need a convenient way to run terminal commands?
Check out this article by Mark Szymczyk, where they introduce a Swift Package from the Swift Language Group that will save you a bunch of time and effort!