Radu Dutzan

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Digital designer
in training since 2001
for money since 2007

Wannabe iOS developer since 2011
Making @doppi since 2015

Bitter & acidic, caring & loving, chaotic good

Websitehttps://radu.cl/
Doppihttps://doppi.app/
Portfoliohttps://radu.cl/work/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jblake/116267530632641970

At first I thought they hired de With because they were trying to rebuild a solid HI team, but now I don’t think that’s the case. Disappointing, yet unsurprising

Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.

But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.

I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

I stand corrected, it’s not just the Air this year: https://mastodon.social/@tuomas_h/116248948610311543

I guess that “nothing” translated into the viability and worldwide availability of the Air, by showing carriers that the writing’s on the wall and they should adopt eSIM ASAP. It’s great strategy.

If you can only forget that your current iPhone has a useless chunk of plastic inside, literally just taking up space, then maybe one day, ten years on, we might all be able to have smaller phones, or a bigger battery, even. Just not today. Today, inert chunk of plastic inside.

It just occurred to me that the Air is the only iPhone that’s actually benefited from not having a SIM card tray. Every US model, since they removed it, has shipped with a plastic spacer in its place, which just makes me angry. How can you be so obsessed about component density and then ship a plastic spacer larger than a Taptic Engine in one of your most space-constrained devices? I can understand why, but it still felt insulting to get a nerfed version of the product for nothing in return
Also, it’s one thing to experiment with weird UI on an operating system that for years was considered an optional open beta; it’s completely different to boldly mess with the UI of 4 OSes that have a collective installed base of a billion-plus devices. But I digress
Just kidding, I’m confident we’ll be fine in less than half a dozen years

Much digital ink has been spilled today freaking out over Gurman’s “Liquid Glass isn’t going anywhere” take. I think we’re all talking about the same thing.

Aqua was around from 2001 to 2014. The Aqua of Mac OS X Public Beta is hardly the same as the one in Mavericks, but it’s still Aqua.

Several good innovations in physical coherence and interaction mechanics went into Liquid Glass. Unfortunately, the first visual execution of the concept has some egregious flaws. But give it 12 years!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@radu/116247011584152741

I'll do it for him: Doppi is the go-to for playing your own music on your own iOS device. It has a beautiful interface and works great on device, via airplay and in the car. I couldn't have quit streaming without it.

https://doppi.app