Alongside generally approved backpedals and tweaks to Liquid Glass, the ‘27 cycle of OS releases from Apple brought about some newer, more curious appearances of the material. Glass has never been this liquid, they say.I want to examine some of these new forms and see if they achieve what Liquid Glass purportedly...

With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles of the hardware not just to the system, but to the user, to prepare them for what their big cumbersome motion will do...

In a previous post of mine from before WWDC25, I discussed1 how Siri is too easy to dismiss, its responses too fragile and how I longed for a more complete “destination” for Siri chats.My wish will be granted as of tomorrow, the day iOS 27 will release with the new Siri app, to which one arrives by pulling down on...

As a person with a modest passion for archivability of internet ephemera, I find the single-link-in-bio model to be so, so tormentful. How could a creator ever confidently say “check out the link in my bio” if they know that in the future, the link they are directing people to press will have changed to something...

I hate AI generated images. Not a bold or unique position, but to some surprise, I used to love them. Years ago. In 2020, I was publishing a niche webcomic involving aliens, and I wanted a unique and visually outstanding way to portray otherworldly background visuals- but to maintain my rapid publishing pace, I...

The month of May comes to a very busy end for me personally1, and with it closes our May edition of the Swift Blog Carnival, which I once again thank Christian Tietze greatly for offering me to host for the month. I’m honored to have gotten the response I did to my call for posts, and I’m excited to share everyone’s...

This is a call to join the topic-of-the-month for the Swift Blog Carnival! This month, we focus on the already-on-your-mind discussion about the limits you ran into with SwiftUI. The topic really started circulating earlier this month with Paulo Andrade’s fantastic Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026...

For the past few weeks since “releasing” my first app to the public on GitHub1, I kept iterating and improving the app. Here’s a snapshot of it today: Meshmaker today, May 2026. I’ve added several features, and however silly it might sound for this little solo tool, it’s exciting to get to write a blogpost like this...

There’s a beauty in how the Mac commits to “the desktop and files” metaphor. I think it’s admirable how ever since the earliest days of the Human Interface Guidelines, direct manipulation has been a core benefit of the operating systems: You Can Just Move Things Around. I want to explore how its been a phenomenal...

I have “released” my first Mac application, Meshmaker, on GitHub as a public repository, so anyone can download the project and run/install it using Xcode. I’m proud of this guy. Now, this isn’t really “A release”. The project isn’t finished, but it’s functional1. I still think it’s already quite usable as a way to...

I’ve been putting together a small app, and trying to make it very very good. I’m coding the whole thing1 myself because I enjoy the challenges that come with logic coding, and find writing SwiftUI code pretty fun and fast. It’s a SwiftUI utility to create Mesh Gradients, which are not intuitive to create manually...

Brandon McMullen, on where the MacBook Neo leaves the iPad: “Will a MacBook Neo be better for an artist who draws for a living? How about a small child? What about people on construction sites? How about for your tech illiterate grandma? Is a MacBook better for an airline pilot?” I think the iPad is an amazing thing...