Explainer: AppKit and SwiftUI

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/04/explainer-appkit-and-swiftui/

Last Week on My Mac: Update progress

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/29/last-week-on-my-mac-update-progress/

Asinine cleavage to ideologically money-motivated engineering.

"The space agency and SpaceX engaged in a similar back-and-forth during the design process for the Crew Dragon spacecraft a decade ago. SpaceX initially wanted touchscreens only, with limited flight commands available to astronauts. NASA pushed back and wanted what were essentially joysticks for astronauts to fly the vehicles like previous spacecraft. A former NASA astronaut then working at SpaceX, Garret Reisman, helped broker a compromise by which astronauts could manually fly the vehicles using controls on touchscreens."

With touch screens. Imagine using that for fine control [especially of a dynamic object with freedom in all degrees and high momentum].

A joystick would cost a fair amount of money to develop, especially if it ignored decades of successful development and application elsewhere in aviation etc. (let alone Apollo program) due to IP concerns.

This is automotive cost control-- in space.

#HumanInterface

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/nasa-and-spacex-disagree-about-manual-controls-for-lunar-lander/

Always-available assistants don’t live or die on model IQ. They live or die on power, defaults, and legibility. Ear-worn might be the narrow path — if privacy is default, capture is mechanically obvious, and a hardware kill switch exists.
#Privacy #HumanInterface

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ani-agi-asi_sweetpea-openai-wearables-activity-7416898112209772544-fu99?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAjo_VwB5zMIOYhhuHLj_nH1y-5TCVgr7Zc

The wizard of Macintosh, Howard Oakley, December 28, 2025:

THE ECLECTIC LIGHT COMPANY
MACS & PAINTING – 🦉 NO AI CONTENT

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/ #HumanInterface, #LiquidGlass, #MacOS26, #SwiftUI, #Tahoe

Howard points out the problems with the newest Apple Mac interface, and as always, he's completely correct.

The last picture shows the “lickable” Finder version from 2014.

It’s the BEST looking.
#Enshittification

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/

nice little ux talk by Scott Jenson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ

Makes me wonder who is innovating in human interfaces these days

#canonical #ux #design #innovation #chi #humaninterface #ui