Honghao Z

@honghao
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AppKit / UIKit API wrangler šŸ”Ø @honghao90
Maker of Say No to Notch and Lickable Menu Bar
@marcedwards I never used autolayout, but I don't think layout is the most critical part of a UI framework at all — 98% of the layouts in my apps are done by hand in -layoutSubviews et al. UIKit is the most-correct thing out there (it was ā€˜AppKit 2.0’ after all), and I wish Apple had built an 'AppKit 3.0' to bridge all the platforms. Autolayout and late-era Interface Builder poisoned the well and drove people to yearn for something like SwiftUI, but both are unnecessary and completely optional

Apple under Jobs was a design company. Apple under Cook is not. The difference is stark.

At best, Apple is coasting on decades-old designs; at worst, Apple is wrecking those designs. Jobs had an eye for UI details, whereas Cook doesn’t care about that, and his ā€œleadershipā€ has infected the entire company.

Jobs was far from perfect, but there’s so much shit Apple ships today that Jobs would call half-baked garbage. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113148867549129796

In case you missed it yesterday:

New, on Morrick.​​me — It’s Lowtime - Observations on Apple’s September event: https://morrick.me/archives/9864

It’s Lowtime — Observations on Apple’s September event

The products themselves are fine, it's Apple as a company that leaves an increasingly bitter taste in my mouth.

Riccardo Mori
The world owes him an apology
Surely this is the best way to listen to music on an iPad
Throwback to a cute little feature I mocked up in 2009: MobileMe Home, a way to connect with your home network. (Oh man, the days of fitting a whole icon in 16Ɨ16 pixels)

Does anyone remember how cute the Just Landed app was? I think it went offline in 2016 but around 2012 (?) and 2014, it was so awesome! I loved the animations and the cartoonish images depicting the current status.

Don’t get me wrong, I looooove Flighty, but I felt the UX of Just Landed was sooooo good!

Some days I just want to go back to Mavericks

You can see how a pill shape count-badge keeps everything much more uniform... it used to be like this but @sandropennisi's new gorgeous app has them too (and his app looks so, so nice with them).

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Ugly Christmas Mac šŸŽ„šŸ–„ļø
Coming soon...