Ben Pickering

@benpickering
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Dye leaving means Apple can change Liquid Glass while saving face

"yeah, the guy who did that's not here anymore"

The use of these fade outs at the tops and bottoms of windows is another thing that I feel is a bad decision in Tahoe and iOS 26.

A really messy look for window title bars

Lies, damned lies, and "Syncing to iCloud"

An interesting thing about recent iOS releases is that more UI interactions are becoming configurable in Settings

Previous wisdom was that if you were going to do this then "you didn't do enough user research" or "you need to be more opinionated" or "our job is to make this choice unnecessary"

Maybe a different story at Apple's scale, but interesting nonetheless, esp from a company that prides itself on UX

@gruber @louie (Here's my background 🖖)

@gruber @louie I was toggling that scrollbar option and... what the everloving f**k is this option! Finally an explanation of why my window backgrounds are all tinted brown!

Wallpaper tinting? Give me strength!

@twostraws Hi Paul, wonder if you can help with an iOS question...

What would your advice be for implementing full-text search in an app?

Are there well-known libraries for this, or is it typically done server-side with something like ElasticSearch?

Hope you can help!

@atpfm @marcoarment I respectfully disagree.. the first edit one should do to a photo is cropping
@_Davidsmith Hi David, I'm trying Pedometer++ and I was wondering if there's a widget that shows my steps over the last 7 days? Essentially the same view as the app itself, but as a widget? Is it part of the premium IAP, perhaps? Thanks!

@siracusa Do you think it's a no-brainer assumption that the next gen of consoles will use ARM processors?

Just thinking how the gaming industry as a whole might orchestrate its move to ARM