https://lukaskubanek.com/Recent content on Lukáš KubánekHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/now/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/now/When I last updated this page, I was at Local-First Conf in Berlin. That was back in May 2025. Since then, life turned upside down. I caught COVID at the conference and had to skip the last day and head home early. It felt like a normal cold and cleared up in a few days. But over the following weeks, I developed long-COVID symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and headaches. For quite some time I was completely knocked out and disqualified from life.https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2024/Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2024/This one took me longer than I’d have liked! We’re already well into 2025 and only now have I found the time to reflect on the past year. The reason? We’re on a nomad trip, once again spending the entire winter season in Bansko, Bulgaria. This time, we arrived before Christmas, and since then, we’ve been splitting our time between work, skiing and social activities, leaving little room for much else.https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2023/Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2023/The year is slowly coming to a close, and so, just like last year, I’m pausing to put together a blog post to reflect on it. Join me as I dive into the highlights and lessons from 2023 from both a personal and business perspective. If you’re here only for particular topics, you can directly navigate to sections about my nomad trip, freelancing, new iOS app, relocation from Berlin to Dresden, more travels later in the year, insights on my health and habits, or my switch from Twitter to Mastodon.https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2022/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/review-of-2022/At the end of each year, I usually take some time to reflect on all that has happened. In the past, these thoughts were mainly focused on my work. I would write up a summary of the year’s events at Diagrams, post it to our internal Basecamp, and share it with the team on New Year’s Eve. Starting with this year, I’m completely changing that format as I’m beginning to post my reflections publicly on my website and share it with a wider audience.https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/diagrams-story/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/blog/diagrams-story/During my computer science studies, I switched from Windows to Mac and was amazed by all the high-quality native apps from independent developers. Their gorgeous designs and well-crafted user experiences attracted me to the point where I started thinking of building one myself. At that time, I lacked a proper tool for sketching software architecture diagrams. And so the idea for building a native diagram editor for the Mac was born.https://lukaskubanek.com/work/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lukaskubanek.com/work/Here’s an overview of my work and areas of expertise, spanning my Mac app Diagrams, freelance client projects, and open-source libraries. Skills AppKit: My entry point into Apple development and still my go-to framework for building Mac apps. SwiftUI: Adopted from the start, comfortable with the declarative model, advanced concepts, and bridging to older frameworks. UIKit: A mature framework I reach for when building polished iOS apps, especially where SwiftUI falls short.