Pierre

@maccatalan@techhub.social
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busy making apps to optimize supply chain operations, ex-faculty and head of undergraduate studies.

This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.

This seems valuable for all public spaces.

#Blind #Accessibility

📢 llm.codes converts JavaScript-heavy Apple docs (and 69+ other sites) into a clean llms.txt that AI agents can actually read. (yes, I went on another side-quest) https://steipete.me/posts/llm-codes-transform-developer-docs
llm.codes: Make Apple Docs AI-Readable | Peter Steinberger

Built this when Claude couldn't read Apple's docs. Now it converts 69+ documentation sites to clean llms.txt. Free, instant, no BS.

New @tuist stickers 😍 who wants some?
SwiftUI group lab is so meta, we just went from "there's an app for that" to "there's an sf symbol for that" 😂

OK I’ve scanned them all!

You can find the scans on #GlobalTalk in the Blackbird share in #BaroNet as PICT files

or, uh, if you're one of the few people not on GlobalTalk yet, you can find PNGs on the web here https://kalleboo.com/linked/cute_macs/

Tahoe flips the colors in the Finder icon, which has the darker color on the left FOREVER and they gotta roll this change back.

https://512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-breaks-decades-of-finder-history/

Apple: Feedback FB17840162

WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History - 512 Pixels

Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to […]

512 Pixels
Why isn't SF Symbols 7 named SF Symbols 26? 😿
#wwdc25

The Apple Park Visitor Center store is offering exclusive #WWDC25 merchandise, including T-shirts, hoodies and baby onesies featuring Apple's retro six-color logo

ℹ️CNET report https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-releases-its-most-comfortable-products-ahead-of-wwdc-2025-new-merch/
🎨More images https://www.instagram.com/p/DKpWOsEKvrU/

So fitting to re-read about rounded rectangles and Bill Atkinson on a rounded rectangle iPhone (although not exactly a rounded rectangle)

- https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html?sort=date
- https://99percentinvisible.org/article/circling-square-designing-squircles-instead-rounded-rectangles/

Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!

@maccatalan Yeah I bought the book in the “culture shock!” series on Sweden to see if the series was worth taking seriously when I wanted to learn about moving to Japan and it was actually really enlightening with things I didn’t even realize I did that were “Swedish things”