Dirk Holtwick

Once upon a time selling software worldwide was easy. You would have a PayPal account, sell your stuff without VAT applied, and at the end of the year you told the tax office how much you had sold in total. Now it is almost undoable, at least from Europe.Why not go to the App Store?“But hey, there are the App Stores, they take all the work off your hands.” That is partly true, at least for billing and taxes, but it comes with other drawbacks: a review for every single app version; a lot is…

An update with improvements to everyday workflows. Here’s a quick overview of the key changes.Smarter Category SettingsFor recognized contacts, you can now define how a category is made: from the most frequently used category, from the category of the most recent receipt, or not at all. In addition, each contact can be assigned a fixed default category that always takes precedence.Re-run RecognitionTwo new commands re-apply recognition to the selected receipts: either the searchable text layer…

Tesseract 5 OCR, optimized for Apple Silicon. We’ve upgraded to the latest Tesseract engine and tuned it specifically for M-series Macs. The result is faster recognition und better accuracy.Apple Vision OCR with automatic language detection. No more picking a language before you scan. PDFify figures out what it’s looking at and gets to work — whether it’s a German contract, a Chinese manual, or an English research paper.Compression, redesigned around four clear modes. Get full control over the…

A hands-on report about using the bx sandbox for macOS, with a special focus on AI and VSCode.

AI coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot have full access to your file system. bx protects everything except the current project directory with a single command.

Proposal for an EU platform that funds open-source projects using measurable criteria, benefiting developers, the EU, and society.