Brian Cordan Young

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iOS engineer @ , Recovering CG Animation Artist, Father and one who wanders.
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Look at that! Mercury Weather is App of the Day on the US App Store today 🤩🎉

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1805972582

dear apple. when i want to choose another card, i will ALWAYS tap the top thing. always. i will never tap the second thing. please fix. thank u love u

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009:

@danielpunkass with you 100% on the first sentence, less on the second. Human characteristics don’t help; it’s a tool, and you need to master its UI. The fact that the UI appears conversational is a huge UX failure in the current crop of implementations.

Highly recommend this post. It perfectly captures the internal conflicts and mindset shift I’ve gone through over the last 2 years of coding with AI.

https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

For a “Fallacies programmers believe about addresses” page, if that exists: There will never be a road called Test Street.

False, as I drove on it in Oamaru, New Zealand a few days ago.

what a beautiful walk home last night
A good morning.

If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember:

Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass.

Final Cut Pro on iPad still doesn't support the background video exporting feature that was added to iPadOS 26 specifically to enable it.

Swift Playground doesn't even support the iOS 26 SDK, so you can't build Liquid Glass apps with it even if you wanted to

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattiem/115526300378319139

I just had my first session with Matt to help me to better understand Swift Concurrency and more specifically how I can use it correctly in my own apps. I can HIGHLY recommend getting their help for this.

I learned more in our first 1.5 hours of pair programming than I think I've combined from countless WWDC videos and blog posts. It made all the difference to be working through my actual problems with an expert, finding and fixing my own misunderstandings or naive approaches.