Gus Mueller

@ccgus
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Digital carpenter, pixel mechanic. Programmer at Flying Meat. I wrote Acorn, Retrobatch, VoodooPad, FlySketch, FMDB, FMJS & CocoaScript. Probably more.
Websitehttps://shapeof.com
Workhttps://flyingmeat.com
Gus Mueller3d ago

Thanks to @danielpunkass, TIL auto-synthesized and CIFilter don’t mix: <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreimage/cifilter-swift.class?language=objc#Subclassing-notes>

> Don’t use auto-synthesized instance variables, because their names are automatically prefixed with an underscore. Instead, synthesize the property manually.

How did I not know this!? Also it explains a crash I was getting (which is what prompted Jalkut helping me. Danke, buddy).

CIFilter | Apple Developer Documentation

An image processor that produces an image by manipulating one or more input images or by generating new image data.

Apple Developer Documentation
Gus Mueller4d ago

Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>

> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
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> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.

A Decade of Slug - Eric Lengyel

Show threadGus Mueller6d ago
@dfgomes Thanks.
Show threadGus Mueller6d ago
@dfgomes I’m curious: where did you hear Lemay was supportive of LG? I hadn’t come across that news yet.
Gus Mueller6d ago

Liquid Pro: <https://shapeof.com/archives/2026/3/liquid_pro.html>

> If Apple was to move away from Liquid Glass on MacOS, how would they do it?

Gus MuellerMar 10
kottke.orgMar 10
The Shape of Paris, a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. "This is the cleanest footage I've ever seen. The cinematography and color grading is insane." https://kottke.org/26/03/the-shape-of-paris
The Shape of Paris

The Shape of Paris is a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. It is al

kottke.org
Gus MuellerMar 9
I just discovered `CGBitmapInfoMake`. Apparently it’s been around since 10.14. Don’t be like me, and not know this exists.
Gus MuellerMar 9
@schwa lol I’m at $509,603,587
Gus MuellerMar 9
Ben BarnettMar 9

I've posted an update to Base (v3.3) which adds Quick Look previews for SQLite databases. You can now see a summary of database contents from the Finder, without having to open the app!

https://menial.co.uk/blog/2026/03/08/base-3.3.0-released/

Show threadGus MuellerMar 8
@dmoren @nileane Any ideas as to why control/option/command still have labels?