Honghao Z

@honghao
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AppKit / UIKit API wrangler 🔨 @honghao90
Maker of Say No to Notch and Lickable Menu Bar
Show threadHonghao ZJan 24, 2025
@marcedwards abandoned SwiftUI in 2020, glad I left the 🗑 sooner than later
Honghao ZJan 24, 2025
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJan 18, 2025
@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
Show threadHonghao ZSep 17, 2024
@morrick @tuomas_h if keeping the circle, at least clipping the text by the circle. Apple really has no attention to details now.
Honghao ZSep 17, 2024
Jeff JohnsonSep 16, 2024

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

Show threadHonghao ZSep 16, 2024
@morrick well written! we are living in a dark age
Honghao ZSep 16, 2024
Riccardo MoriSep 15, 2024

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
Honghao ZAug 31, 2024
Jordan KayAug 31, 2024
The world owes him an apology
Honghao ZAug 17, 2024
Zoe KnoxJul 20, 2024
Surely this is the best way to listen to music on an iPad
Honghao ZMay 19, 2024
sdwMay 19, 2024
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)
Honghao ZMar 29, 2024
Mario GuzmánMar 29, 2024

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!