Honghao Z

@honghao
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AppKit / UIKit API wrangler 🔨 @honghao90
Maker of Say No to Notch and Lickable Menu Bar
@marcedwards abandoned SwiftUI in 2020, glad I left the 🗑 sooner than later
@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 ‘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
@morrick @tuomas_h if keeping the circle, at least clipping the text by the circle. Apple really has no attention to details now.

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 “leadership” 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

@morrick well written! we are living in a dark age

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 16×16 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!