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I am loving all of the quality of life improvements the Shortcuts team did to App Intents and App Shortcuts for OS26 platforms. I also learned a better way to make navigational intents that helped me delete so much code I previously had.

Their #WWDC25 videos were freakin' awesome this year for all of App Intents, Shortcuts, Controls, and Widgets!

Apple Design creating all sorts of rules so that our apps adhere to their standards of fit and finish (even throwing your icons in squircle jail in Tahoe) makes me feel like they have gone full-blown HOA.

Mac OS X Tiger was more like those cute/quaint towns with character and Tahoe is the result of gentrification and knocking all that down for McMansions/Cookie-cutter homes with HOAs.

Your app has to go through everything they want and fit their mold.

#macOSTahoe #WWDC25 #UIUX

macOS Tahoe:

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What has *really* kept me going is the folks in this photo. On the Saturday after #WWDC25 we got brunch together and made an agreement: to help the WWDC buzz last and help us reach goals, we each set out a "moon shot" idea, and will return there after WWDC26 to see if we made it.

Three weeks ago I was flying back from San Francisco after #WWDC25, and decided to use the flight to start a new app. I just submitted an initial version for TestFlight review – it's early and needs a ton of polish, but I'm really excited about it. It's been so much fun to make!

This is sort of what I was afraid of in #macOSTahoe. There are inconsistencies even with menu items consistent across all apps, like the About... menu item.

Some of Apple's apps don't have an icon. Some do, it is the "i" in a circle. Then you got Photos which luckily has a Photos icon in SF Symbols they can use.

I still maintain icons should only be reserved for contextual menus with only a handful of items OR NSMenuToolbarItem.

Not to mention the jagged labels it causes too...

Continuing my journey on updating my app icon for Liquid Glass. Keep in mind, my app icon is already 10 years old… so yeah, pretty outdated.

I had to modify the original to separate out the map pin and make it a solid P rather than just an outline of it.

I’m sorta wondering if I should also make a dark background for light-mode. It’s always been dark so having a green background is semi-weird.

S4E9: @mikaelacaron and @twostraws are – or at least were – live at #WWDC25! And dub-dub dominates the chat – what was announced, why it matters, what the concerns are, and what new features y’all are excited to get your hands on.

Recorded in front of a live audience! If you were there, have fun remembering what fluffs have been cut out in the edit. If you weren’t: this is exactly how it went down in the room 🙂‍↕️

🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

Apple PodcastsS4E9: Apple Does Sometimes Solve Problems (WWDC25 special)Podcast Episode · Swift over Coffee · 25/06/2025 · 27m