Intrigued how this rough edge will get refined when macOS 26 graduates beta.
Will they full-bleed the horizontal bars behind the sidebar, deeming it part of the content?
Or maybe they’ll match the colour(s) of the horizontal bar to the content, a la Safari’s favourites bar, and further trade off legibility / visual stability?
Extremely surprised that Apple decided to go live with the formatting of “what’s new” text for macOS Sonoma. I kept seeing the same poor text formatting with the beta updates, but it looked so obviously broken that surely they’d fix it for the public release. I was wrong — someone at Apple thought this level of text formatting is good enough for the actual release.
I am now squarely in the ‘worried about the future of my favourite OS’ camp.
After some consideration, I thought ChatGPT might be able to give us some clues in a situation that could get us through a stuck moment, but in a form that preserves the sense of unraveling a mysterious plot by making the best of fragmented clues and contextual cues, something that didn't feel like cheating.
The results were not too shabby.
