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🦃 Virginia Tech
📱 Prototyping @Airbnb
Yet another take about Liquid Glass:

Liquid Glass feels like one of the purest embodiments of the "design with behaviors not states" idea that Design put forth in their Designing Fluid Interfaces talk (way back in 2018!) since the fluid multitasking system itself.
June 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Incredible 2 train moment last night. Five people in head to toe Knicks gear & celebratory mood. They've got a boombox, they're dancing. Most people minding their own business. But slowly the joy and chants are infectious til nearly the whole car is at least nodding along. New York's still got it.
May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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While the focus on the App Store injunction has been mostly on the commission rate, what's been overlooked is just how far the tools of the App Store have fallen behind.
May 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If Obj-C had Swift’s enums, then I’d pick it every time.
April 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
SwiftUI is kinda the worst.
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...
Apple and Google Restore TikTok to App Stores in the U.S.
The popular social media app was removed to comply with a new law that banned it in the United States. President Trump has paused enforcement of the ban.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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It’s about time. Today we’re removing the waitlist and making Record Club generally available to everyone!

Come join us. 💜
February 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There's no doubt that some really interesting things can be achieved with SwiftUI (there's tons of evidence to support that), but man... what an incredibly difficult framework to become proficient in. I personally don't find it user friendly at all.
January 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Day 1 at Airbnb!
January 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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We're only two years away from The Onion Premium Sex Bowl™ featuring the worst two teams in the country. It's 9 quarters long and there is no penalty for roughing the kicker.
December 28, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I’m in my tiki bar era.
December 28, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
December 19, 2024 at 11:19 PM
The year in review that’s actually worth looking forward to.
December 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Maybe it's the physical makeup of my eyes, but every window that spawns in visionOS feels askew. It's like the left edge of a window is always just slightly further away than the right edge. I wish there was a system setting to manually adjust the default rotation of a new window.
December 9, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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"It's written in Rust" is not a feature of your app. "It's blazing fast" is a hollow claim that makes me doubt it.

Please stop putting these things on your homepage. Please show me why your tool/app/whatever makes my work easier/cheaper/faster-to-iterate.
December 6, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Make software that you wouldn't be embarrassed to hang on your wall.
November 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is

(then do killall SystemUIServer)
November 25, 2024 at 12:38 AM
One of my favorite pieces of code that I've added to an app was this small hack I added to Snapchat during my time there.
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Not sure who needs to hear this... but Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, etc are all just tools. Use whichever ones help you delight your users.
November 20, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Growth at all costs is not a sustainable business model (even for the world’s most valuable company).
November 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
👋 I'm Chase, a Design Engineer at Yahoo.

What exactly is a Design Engineer? I'm a designer, but I mostly use native code as my design tool of choice. I build very high fidelity prototypes to explore how layout, interaction, and animation are used holistically to drive an experience for our users.
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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My Apple Developers Starter Pack was overflowing and reached it's 150 person capacity, so I created a second list, Apple Developers II, so I could add more people.

Apple Developers  I: go.bsky.app/66G7TY4
Apple Developers  II: go.bsky.app/M8xLgeS
November 16, 2024 at 4:16 AM