Year In Review

My Favorite Books From My 2024 Reads

I enjoyed seeing all the books I read last year in one place so I decided I needed to do the same this year. Let me know your favorites so I can increase my tbr (to be read) pile!

Pilates

Pilates: My Favorite Thing!

I've been wanting to update my Pilates' post and figured now was the time! Here I share an awesome online membership (with referral code) that you can attend from anywhere anytime!

Hiking

Blanca Lake in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Back at the beginning of August I hiked to Blanca Lake and had to share the photos with you. Come along with me!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Bug Fix and Small Additions

Fixed an issue when adding a new template from the browse view. This update also includes an added "delete all" button to the browse views for macOS (moved the already existing one in iOS) and added the ability to set/change the default category of any newly created template.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: PNG Image Resizing on macOS

Mainly minor fixes. The biggest update is for macOS which now has a fix on the calculated dimensional string which led to PNG resizing. On both versions there's several small changes like putting SVG before PNG when editing templates and adding the ability to add a template directly to a category.

Christmas

Our Simple and Adorable Kitchen Snowperson

Last Christmas I decorated our fridge for the holiday season and absolutely adored it! The snow person part ended up staying until late Spring and made me smile so many times.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now With SVG Support

Added support to see, remove, and add SVG images to the templates. Also split up the resize button to be me more understandable.

Dessert

How We Made Our Tasty Ice Cream Cupcakes

For Zoey's birthday party I converted our favorite ice cream cake recipe into cupcakes and it was so simple!

SwiftUI

SwiftUI Overlays and Their Issue With Sheets

A bit ago I realized the sheets in my app covered up my overlay messaging. This wouldn't do so I figured out how to show the overlay from every spot. Check out how I created the overlay and fixed the problem here!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Fix Template Syncing for reMarkable Paper Pro 3.15

Update required if connecting to a reMarkable Paper Pro with a software version of 3.15 or later; otherwise, any template syncing will attempt to connect with the wrong file. Also took the opportunity to make the app easier to navigate.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It: Update for WLAN Support

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.2) that includes support to run the WLAN command for you.

Simply Command It!

Simply Command It! FAQs

If a question you have isn't here please comment below and/or reach out through mail@simplykyra.com. App Specific What devices are supported? I've developed Simply Command It specifically for iOS and have been using my phone, mainly, while developing. That said you can also

Halloween

Our 2023 Halloween Costumes

I realized I was running out of time to share last year's costume before this Halloween rolled around and so... Here's to last year's simple-ish and adorable costumes: Elsa and Rainbow Unicorn!

reMarkable

Switch Out Your reMarkable Paper Pro's Sleep Screen

With the reMarkable Paper Pro out I figured it was time to share an updated post on how to switch out your screen images! Come check it out.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now Works With Your ReMarkable Paper Pro

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.1) that supports connecting to the reMarkable Paper Pro in addition to the older reMarkable devices.

Hiking

Emmons Moraine Trail on Mount Rainier/Tahoma

I hiked Emmons Moraine Trail back at the beginning of July 2024 and it was gorgeous. I wanted to share some of my photos with you in case you'd also love to come along on this adventure.

reMarkable

Learn How to Access Your reMarkable Paper Pro Through the Command Line

With the new reMarkable Paper Pro out I realized I needed to update my How To Connect post... here it is!

Ghost

How I Fixed My HTML Sublists on My Casper Themed Ghost Website

A bit ago I realized the sub-lists on my lists weren't displaying properly as each showed 1, 2, 3,.. rather than the expected letters or roman numerals of an inside list. Once I figured out how to get it working in Ghost I had to share in case it can help you too!

Dessert

Zoey's Birthday Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

This year for Zoey's birthday we combined brownie, ice cream, whipped cream, maraschino cherries, sprinkles, and an icing writer... in case you're now wondering how come check it out here!

Meal

My Simple Pressure Cooker Sausage and Pasta Meal

Check out my quick and easy pressure cooker pasta dish. So simple to make and my kids LOVE it!

Ghost

Removing Infinite Scroll From a Single Page

After much trouble I came across a super simple way to limit how many posts are shown in my post feed! Come check it out!

Ghost

Moving All My Posts From My Ghost Homepage to Its Own Custom Page

I recently moved my blog post feed away from my Ghost homepage and I wanted to share how I did it in case you’re wanting to do the same!

SwiftUI

Create a Super Simple Shared SwiftUI Alert System

Do you want a simple shared alert system in your SwiftUI app that works in both iOS and macOS from, mostly, one location? No more moving it up and down a view spot seeing if it will work now!

Apple

Steps My App Needed To Get into the Apple App Store

With my first app officially in the App Store I wanted to share what I now know in case it can help you too!

Food & Dessert

Ada and Zoey's Epic Homemade Ice Cream Cakes

Last summer, after making a homemade ice cream cake for Ada's birthday the year before both girls requested an ice cream cake. The cakes turned out amazing! Though they were bit… rich.