Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Hardware-Exclusive Mac Accent Colors

John Gruber: By default, the MacOS accent color in System Settings → Appearance defaults to a color that matches the Neo’s hardware — a fun trick Apple has been using for decades. David Deller: This is the first I’m learning that System Settings sometimes has a special accent color only available to a Mac with a particular […]

Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself

Greg Knauss: What I am talking about is being replaced, about becoming expendable, about machines gaining the ability to adequately perform a very specific function that was previously the exclusive domain of skull meat. What I’m talking about is that nothing I do matters. That nothing I can do matters. In just the past few […]

CoreDataEvolution

Fatbobman (Mastoson): This library is designed to simplify and enhance Core Data’s handling of multithreading, drawing inspiration from SwiftData’s @ModelActor feature, enabling efficient, safe, and scalable operations. […] Custom Executors for Core Data Actors CoreDataEvolution provides custom executors that ensure all operations on managed objects are performed on the appropriate thread associated with their managed […]

Weathergraph 1.0.330

Tomas Kafka: Multiple locations — the most-requested Weathergraph feature — is finally here. Save home, work, your favourite trails, or your next destination. Switch between them instantly with a single tap. Finally. This is still my favorite weather app. As with the forecast provider toggle, the location toggle works on the main graph (and retains […]

Acme Weather 1.0

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. […] We enjoyed our time at Apple. So why did we leave to start another weather company? It’s simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves feeling unsatisfied. […] […]