Reading List

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

iPhone Pocket

Apple (Hacker News, Slashdot): ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.[…]“The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that […]

Xcode 26.1.1

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.1.1 includes Swift 6.2.1 and SDKs for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1. Xcode 26.1.1 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.1.1 requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. It’s hard […]

DropDMG 3.7.1

DropDMG 3.7.1 is a maintenance update of my app for disk images and archives. I continue to run into AppleScript problems with Tahoe. This script: tell application "Finder" tell window 1 set statusbar visible to true end tell end tell no longer does anything (FB20794683). If I change window to Finder window, instead of doing […]

Abstract App Icons Within Icons

Matthew Cassinelli: The App Store icon is made up of three app icons supporting each other (like apps on the App Store do). Just like the Shortcuts is two app icons, connected in the middle (like shortcuts connecting your apps together). All these years, I thought the “new” App Store icon was just an abstract […]

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Paul Kafasis: Apple updated their own app icons on Tahoe, for both the squircle shape as well as the new “Liquid Glass” interface. Mostly, these icons seem dumbed-down, with a loss of detail. For example, here’s Safari’s old icon from MacOS 15 (Sequoia) on the left, and the new Tahoe icon on the right.To me, […]