Developer of Macintosh & iPhone apps. 10+ years building macOS, iOS, & watchOS apps. I value good, honest app design that harnesses complexity while being true to the platform.
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Beaverton, Oregon
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RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
Not only this but some folks who are so anti-American mega corporations like Microsoft, Google, Meta -- for all the horrible things they do with your data (and rightfully so), not only turn a blind eye to AI companies, but they actively embrace it and push it.
I've seen folks who post on their bios "breaking up with big tech" simultaneously posting AI code-slop from like ChatGPT or Anthropic.
It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
#Apple50 Day #3
MacBook 2.4GHz C2D 13" Black (Early 2008)
Apple introduced the 13" MacBook via press release on May 16, 2006. It shipped in white, with a higher‑end in black from 2006-08. This 2.4GHz configuration is the fastest and final version of the black original MacBook.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/116310785545953425
#macOSTahoe updates were/are unpleasant. The last 8-9 months were spent fixing things Tahoe broke, re-thinking UI just for Tahoe while falling back to the old UI for older OSes. So lots of pound-ifs... and also figuring out how to go around Tahoe bugs that are yet to be fixed.
All of that instead of making a new app or adding new features to my existing apps.
Tahoe broke a lot of shit in my app. From the notifications from Music to update the UI, to the drawing of custom controls.
Look how the volume slider and track scrubber look now... ugh. I know how to fix them but it's just time consuming.
I also had to go and create my own layers for the custom corner radius since Tahoe corner radius values are clown-work.
Anyway, usability is back... and the corner radius now match Tiger & Leopard respectively. :)
Onward.
Daaaaaang. I forgot how small/tight the corner radius was on Mac OS X windows in Leopard/Snow Leopard.
And it was still friendly & approachable... I don't recall anyone ever getting hurt or refusing to use the "scary" computer because UI elements weren't more round. (talking to you design folks lol)
Address Book in Mac OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard was probably peak in the "Design is how it works" part of that quote.
Notice how the + symbol is in the bottom bar, corresponding to each column. There is no confusion where a new "item" (whatever “item” may be), will appear.
Today, if you look at Notes, the + is above the editor/note view -- and not over the list of notes column (where it actually appears). I mean, I could see that work but it's an odd setup.
This design here is far more clear.
This is Mac OS X 10.1 with the 10.2 installer disc… I always found it odd that the marketing for the installer didn't match the marketing on the box (the Jaguar styled `X`).
Anyway, look at the Dock icons. It's insane that you could just scan left-to-right each one and immediately have a good idea what that app might be for.
Well, except IE. Marketing icons aren't typically good indicators but by 2002, IE was pretty well established. But these icons do a better job than today's icons in macOS.
I am looking for a couple of short term projects, if anyone wants artisanal handcrafted app icons, I here to help!
Arne Brasseur
Mr. Macintosh
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