#IconFactory's #Tapestry can do #RSS, #Mastodon, #YouTube, #BlueSk, etc. feeds in one app. So far pretty nice and it has filtering that will work in my RSS feeds! #Apple only.

https://usetapestry.com

Man, this is rough to see. Especially for a company that’s been around long enough that I used dialup at my parents’ house to check their site.

But also, I want to plug that @Iconfactory’s latest app, Tapestry, which is probably my favorite newish app for iOS in ages. It’s such a better way to find wonderful things to read or keep track of subreddits. It’s great, you should try it.

https://usetapestry.com
https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/114835025353921777

The more time I spend with Liquid Glass, the more I don't understand Alan Dye's and the design team's obsession with minimizing UI chrome and "prioritizing content" instead.

With collapsed tab bars in iOS 26, it now takes me two taps to switch between Library and Music.

Is that…better? The animations are gorgeous, sure. But does it actually *work* better? 🤔

Why is it so hard for Apple to practice what they preach? They will have an authoritative educational tone in their session videos on how to do something, but they won’t even do it that way in their own products.

How can you maintain the appearance of knowing what you’re talking about to third party developers when you aren’t even aligned internally?

⭐️ I have finally published the source repository for Coppice, @pilky's mind-mapping app, as per his final wishes.

It is provided as-is, without a license, to help prospective #AppKit developers learn from a longtime Mac developer who really sweated the details, and always went out of his way to provide help to people who needed it.

https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/coppice
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114100571846787301

Mockup time! What could be a reasonable "middle ground" between the Mac OS design that we have today and the radical Liquid Glass design we saw this week from #WWDC25?

Disclaimer: this does not attempt to solve all the issues of modern Mac OS design, such as cramped toolbars caused by full-height sidebars and combining the toolbar with the title bar. I feel like the Apple of today is too far gone to do anything about those.

Read on to see what I actually tried to address.

a while ago, @neilsardesai posted https://mastodon.social/@neilsardesai/113558083042210123 where he visualized a concept of customizing the mac dock with little icons.

I went ahead and made that a reality, and I would like to show off my new app: CharmBar, which lets you put anything you want on any icon in the dock. Check it out: https://charmbar.org/