Halit Soysal

@lasyos
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Designer in profession, detective at heart. Founder of paó & Perception Benders
If Apple still had courage they would've opened the keynote with this. @atpfm
Apple updating Siri to be more critical of DEI programs and less critical of Trump is sadly the least surprising Apple story of the year.
Not sure who signed off on this new macOS 26 Finder icon, but I hope Susan Kare pops round to Cupertino and shouts at Tim Cook until he changes it.

📝 Another blog post!

macOS 26 Tahoe swaps out quirky, characterful app icons in the Dock for uniform iOS-style squircles.

I wrote a quick guide for users and developers on how to bring back the personality and charm of custom icon shapes in macOS:

https://simonbs.dev/posts/how-to-bring-back-oddly-shaped-app-icons-on-macos-26-tahoe/

How To Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

Learn how to restore oddly shaped app icons in macOS 26, whether you're a user or a developer.

Simon B. Støvring
Wow, they’ve updated developer.apple.com with the new UI already!

People here might think I’m a negative person. I’m really not. Those that know me have seen that I get easily and overly excited about cool tech and nice things. I love it when I see work done well.

Apple today just doesn’t do that and it bums me out.

macOS Tahoe buttons be like

UI that can be clearly seen and told apart from the content helps me as a user to "focus on the content" because I don't have to search for it and try and understand what is content and what is UI.

Stable consistent UI stays put and isn't constantly hiding and appearing and rearranging itself lets me develop muscle memory and a spacial sense of "where" everything is, so I can learn to get used to the app.
Instead of having to constantly relearn where everything is because it rearranges itself.

introducing macOS National Guard #wwdc25
I hope the Wallet improvements are "we've added more money to your wallet." #WWDC