Goodbye, Apple Watch
https://blog.horizon-nigh.org/2026/06/09/goodbye-apple-watch
| Web site | https://horizon-nigh.org |
| Profession | iOS & Mac app maker person |
| Current project | @Radiccio |
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I care about some things too much, and other things not enough. But mostly the first one.
@Joekw I provide for adding items in my Mac app via the Apple Music web API. But the newly-added item doesn't actually show up in the MusicKit API until after the user launches Music.app. And even then, the tracklist returned by MusicKit contains zero items, until the user quits and relaunches MY app. (The latter was a new regression in macOS 26.)
I have added prompts and alerts to guide the user through all of this. But it sucks. It's such a terrible experience.
Usually, I end up obsessing over drafts of blog posts to an unhealthy degree, and most of the time I’m unhappy with the result, so I don’t end up posting it. Often, I don’t even actually start writing - I write it “in my head” but I never sit down at the keyboard - because I know how this is probably going to go.
This time, I tried something a little different... I just sat down and wrote, re-read it just once, and then I posted it. Is this anything? Probably not. It felt good, though.
@CodingItWrong On the other hand, when I notice that a company is on Mastodon, it usually makes me think more highly of them.
@gruber SwiftUI Text views have built-in support for Markdown-style links, although it is temperamental and often fails like this. As far as I can tell, it doesn't provide any feedback to the developer as to why it's not working, nor any way to detect that it failed (e.g. a compiler warning/error). Just another SwiftUI paper cut.
Mario GuzmánAnother welcome addition (or subtraction depending on how you see it).
No more menu item icons in #macOS27. Good riddance. :)
Everything’s coming up Mario!
@CodingItWrong Yep, every time I went to Dragon*Con. It wasn't bad; for a fast food burger, you could do worse. Haven't had it recently since there aren't any near me.
@tuomas_h I always think of that WWDC that started with the “a thousand no’s for every yes” video. I cringed so hard when I first saw it, because the video itself misunderstands the point of it as a philosophy.
If you do a good job at saying “no”, it should be self-evident through the works you create. If you have to get a megaphone and announce it to people, it probably means it wasn’t self-evident any more.
There should have been someone to say “no” to these animations. But there wasn’t.
@tuomas_h I still don't have iOS 26 on my main phone, and every time I see someone else using it, I can't believe how anyone can stand the obnoxious bounciness. I guess it's something some people can get used to, but for now, I still find it shocking.
With your last sentence I think you perfectly explained the problem with it.
@radu I still haven't gotten over the confusion and disbelief I felt when they first introduced Liquid Glass, speaking about it as if it was an entirely new thing. As if the people introducing this had somehow never used or even seen iOS before.
iOS introduced "frosted glass" in iOS 7... 12 years prior! And it's been glassy ever since. Liquid Glass is little more than an uglier iteration of that. Enough with the glass! I'm so bored of glass! It's time to try something else.