Igor Kulman

Coding Journal

iOS & Swift developer. Open source fan. Building privacy-first apps and sharing what I learn.

Why I built my own expense tracker

March 25, 2026 Why I built my own expense tracker

Beating App Store review: lessons from shipping a minimal indie game

March 11, 2026 Beating App Store review: lessons from shipping a minimal indie game

Building Aira: a calm anime tracker for myself

February 25, 2026 Building Aira: a calm anime tracker for myself

Building Yomu: Safari, furigana, and why “plain text” often isn’t plain

February 11, 2026 Building Yomu: Safari, furigana, and why “plain text” often isn’t plain

Building Yomu: furigana, tokenization, and offline dictionaries on iOS

January 28, 2026 Building Yomu: furigana, tokenization, and offline dictionaries on iOS

The Japanese reading problem that finally made me build my own app

January 14, 2026 The Japanese reading problem that finally made me build my own app

Still using Firefox — but not because of its vision

December 30, 2025 Still using Firefox — but not because of its vision

Advent of Code 2025: Modern C++ and Zed

December 23, 2025 Advent of Code 2025: Modern C++ and Zed

Apple will not let me join the Developer Program — and will not say why

December 3, 2025 Apple will not let me join the Developer Program — and will not say why

Backing up my repositories to self-hosted Gitea

November 5, 2025 Backing up my repositories to self-hosted Gitea