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This comes literally the day after I’ve been exploring Fedora, because the only option Apple provides besides iPad is a relic of a laptop.
It’s taught me Apple has a stranglehold on powerful hardware, and tablet-laptops are kinda dead to fold-around 2 in 1s.
But it was like being a kid again going through the customisation options. You can change the system UI! You can change how windowing works. You can make it work just like a Mac, or just like Windows, or even like iPadOS in some respects.
iOS 26.4 – I have to scan my ID and prove I’m over 18 to install SAFARI EXTENSIONS now…
Even if Apple were to open up iPad to coding and bring command line tools now, I don’t see them rolling this back. They’ve just stated quite clearly that it’s just not my device to do with as I please.
I’m so done.
If you’ve ever thought Apple isn’t opinionated on app architecture, look again. App Intents has a type called AppDependencyManager built-in, which promotes injection of dependencies, and they even recommend using it in the main app target, setting it up in your App’s init. Buttons and Toggle can take an AppIntent. It’s almost like Apple built their own optional alternative to PointFree’s TCA.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/244/
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/275/
For any other tech, this would be absurd.
Does your calculator do your maths for you?
Does your keyboard write for you?
Not generally. You do maths with a calculator, and write with a keyboard.
LLMs are deterministic in their probabilistic outputs, and they're not intelligent. At least reserve your subservience for properly intelligent robot overlords.
Stop personifying LLMs. It assigns agency and responsibility to a tool, and we all know you can't blame (or credit!) the tools.
My LLM wrote this code, and then committed it.
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I wrote this code and committed it using an LLM.
Getting this language wrong skews our relationship with our tools. It lets us dismiss our responsibility to check and correct the output, while preventing us from crediting ourselves for the final result.
What it means to be human should grow from new tech.
Think:
- `fixedSize` ignores container limits.
- `idealWidth`/`idealHeight` means that dimension when no container limits apply. (Meaning it's a fallback value, while maxWidth is treated like an ideal for a bounded canvas)
- `frame` means override the size proposal to the container.
@ristkof @twostraws Sad to say this is the contract…
`.fixedSize` forces a view to use its 'ideal size', per the docs. Its name just defies user expectations.
`.frame` is also badly named, as it technically allows overriding the size proposal a view offers to its container, the documented layout system.
Views take all the available space the container offers, up to their max width, but ideal size kicks in when space is unbounded, like scrollviews or when using fixedSize…
Nicolas Holzschuch
