Gregory

@grishka
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Software developer who's almost lost faith in the modern IT. Used to work at VKontakte, then Telegram. Currently building my own fediverse project to save our online social lives from greedy corporations. Follow the progress: #smithereen

Also working on the Mastodon Android app.

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Websitehttps://grishka.me
📍St Petersburg
Gregory1d ago

This video is very telling about Apple's priorities. 90% of their demonstrations are on iOS. Mac is officially an afterthought now.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219/

Meet Liquid Glass - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer

Liquid Glass unifies Apple platform design language while providing a more dynamic and expressive user experience. Get to know the design...

Apple Developer
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Actually, after seeing this screenshot for like 5th time, I realized what the problem is: they reused the blur filter from the flat design. That filter doesn't only blur, it also slightly increases saturation and brightness. But it looks like ass together with refraction.
Show threadGregory6d ago
Also, about a year ago, they broke the layout editor. It no longer remembers which mode you used the last time and always opens in the useless "design" mode instead of "split" that I've been using for more than a decade. Super annoying.
Gregory6d ago
Every time I update Android Studio, it opens up the stupid "assistant" thing with the changelog that I don't give a crap about, and messes up my panel layout.
Gregory6d ago

I thought a bit more about how Apple's liquid (gl)ass is compared with Microsoft's aero glass and realized that there's one more important difference.

In Windows, the glassy elements were never *inside* windows. They were only a few large things — namely the window borders, the start menu, and the taskbar.

In iOS and macOS, there's just too much of that effect everywhere, to the point that the whole thing looks messy.

GregoryJun 9
Show threadMarcin KrzyzanowskiJun 9
if that is not a design crime. I don't know what is
GregoryJun 9
dmitriidJun 9

The ten years of MacOS, give or take. Via HID_MOUSE.

Apple "designers" undoubtedly believe their liquid ass is the best thing since sliced cheese.