Sean Reilly

@seanreilly
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Created Moneydance and SyncSpace, ex Sketch. US expat in Edinburgh. The voice of reason. 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
Webhttps://seanreilly.com
Workhttps://infinitekind.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/seanreilly
Sean Reilly16h ago
John Siracusa21h ago

Amen! https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/

Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile.

If squircled icons are actually better, then let that design win in the market. That's how we transitioned from the classic Mac OS icon style to the more photorealistic Mac OS X icon style. Developers adopted it because they wanted to, and because users desired it.

Free The Icons

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons

Show threadSean ReillyJun 19
90 seconds in and we're behind already
Sean ReillyJun 19
fingers crossed for Scotland tonight 🀞🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️
Sean ReillyJun 18
Christian TietzeJun 18

https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/06/lettera-bear-editor-for-any-file/

It lives!

We're announcing the beta of Lettera, a native macOS Markdown editor for *you*

yes, you!

Sean ReillyJun 8
WWDC starts today and I am actively avoiding the keynote. No time to watch a 2 hour advertisement, but will catch up with the state of the union and recaps from independent sources. Futile wishes:
* Deprecate SwiftUI
* Fix macOS notifications
* Swift to adopt Kotlin features (or Kotlin itself)
Show threadSean ReillyJun 8
I'm an idiot. Only now thought to check ifixit and see that they have a guide and a better price for the replacement battery than Apple πŸ˜”
Sean ReillyJun 8
Heading to the Edinburgh Apple Store this morning to replace a battery in a MacBook Air. I wish Apple would've made it possible to do this at home.
Sean ReillyJun 8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/116711248944467979

100% agree, but mainly this: Daniel is a gift to the software development community. He is thoughtful enough to have examined both the pro and con sides of AI objectively when many of his peers were knee-jerk rejecting it without doing their own investigation. Plus, he's a super nice guy in general.

Sean ReillyJun 6
Record player connected and tested in the "new" house. Obligatory turntable photo attached (this will be the last)
Sean ReillyJun 4
Steve Troughton-SmithJun 4

"In the last six years, billings and sales facilitated by the App Store have more than doubled in China, and more than tripled in the U.S. and Europe."

So you mean you weren't materially affected in any way, shape or form by opening up iPhone to third-party app stores and sideloaded apps, and there has been zero malware crises or PR disasters in that time as a result?

Who would have thought. It's almost like you burned all those bridges with developers for /nothing/.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/app-store-ecosystem-reaches-1-point-4-trillion-usd-as-developers-thrive-globally/

App Store ecosystem reaches record $1.4 trillion as developers continue to thrive globally

Apple today announced the global App Store ecosystem facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025.

Apple Newsroom