I’m trying out a ton of design and art software at once (which I might write a blogpost about), and today I got into Pixelmator Pro, and when figuring out the Effects panel, I was overjoyed at this design detail: You could hang your laundry on that! When I first pressed that button, I had 0 doubt about what was...

Today, Apple announced “the new iPhone 17e”. I personally have an iPhone 16e, so naturally, I have no reason to upgrade. This was expected, as I am not the audience. Apple tells you as much themselves, as the product page offers comparisons to what they assume your iPhone is: iPhone 11, iPhone 12, or maybe some...

There is a horrible disease in web design I see everywhere. On one end, it has infected Apple, Microsoft, Google and more, and on the other end of the spectrum, small, niche, hand-coded passionate bloggers and coders. It is the hijacking of the vertical scroll for dramatic effect.I despite this. Scroll through this...

I don’t have anything to say about the Apple Creator Studio announcement that wasn't already said better, but I gotta say, there’s something I find deeply compelling about pre-release marketing material, especially idiosyncrasies and oddities in it. Look at these two screenshots from different parts of Apple’s...

Matt Birchler, on vibe coding small tools: And you know what? It worked. The UI wasn't perfect, but it was damn close. And I already had a product that achieved the goal I set out to achieve. All in all, I'd say it was about 10 minutes from idea to functioning MVP (and half of that was finishing my run). (Do read...

Forgive my tinfoil hat, but…As Apple leans more and more into reflective surfaces, 3D illusions and bouncy visuals, perfectly concentric menus and device bezels and a haptic, tactile sensory experience, Google and Android have refined the appearance of “Material Design” further and further, resulting in the current...

This is exciting.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate text, and do it pretty well.We’ve seen AI make and manipulate images, and do it… uh… At scale.But Google keeps trying to make this new thing. This more evolved thing. The difference reminds me of the jump from an HTML article to an application. Let’s go step by...

The only reason me and my partner considered a PC was playing games. If the Steam Machine can also be easily used to stream/record gameplay, and maybe even run Discord too, there’s no longer a reason for me to see Windows again in the foreseeable future. Sentiment around Microsoft, and Not Just in the enthusiast...

Murmurings of a “capacitive button only” iPhone have been floating about for a while. This rings alarm bells for some, excites others, and I wanted to formulate my thoughts on the idea. The downside comes from concerns of reliability and affordance. A “haptic button”, like the haptic mostly-static trackpad on...

Reading Federico Viticci’s fantastic iOS & iPadOS 26 review, I had a tiny quibble about one thing, and it’s something many other people who discuss the new iPad multitasking system said recently: the notion that “Apple added Mac windowing, unchanged, to the iPad”. Window management now works “exactly how it does on...

Meta recently unveiled their new, actually shipping this month, glasses that show you little apps on your eye. Their content is visible only to the wearer, can be read in broad daylight, and don’t look like ski goggles that isolate you from reality. They look like glasses and work like magic.You can attach a bunch...

If you ignored the captions under these icons, what is “Triangle made of three sticks”? what’s the difference between the two “Rectangle/Book that says A” icons? A lot of good pieces have been going around about the new icon language. About how it’s unfair to developers to not conform to the squircle. About how it...