People often casually ask “where’s the manual for this app?”.

Writing good documentation is a huge undertaking, comparable to coding a simple app. Only a fraction of users ever bother reading it. I don’t blame developers who just decide to skip the whole thing.

But I get that some apps need documentation more than others.

The downloads of my Proxygen iOS app shot up since 13th June and I have no idea why.

Maybe someone on TikTok found a novel way to use it for something iOS 26 related 🫣

Or could also be the changes to the App Store search algorithm 🤷‍♂️

UIDocumentViewController is so buggy that I think I’m going to have to just ditch the whole document based app launch experience and go with something else.

Perhaps launching straight into a “temporary document” and letting you save it to a file using a picker could work? 🤔

But if you opened a document using a picker, would changes get saved to it automatically? Nothing in iOS works like this.

The consequence of Apple doing bad design isn’t just us having to endure that UI for several years going forward.

It’s also others copying what Apple does (even when it’s shit), taking the entire industry more than a decade to recover.

Expect Google to do “Material Glass” next year.
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I’ve been a paying customer of NextDNS for years now and it has worked pretty much flawlessly. No ads in websites or news apps. I could really consider giving this a try 👍

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