Roel Van Gils
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Roel Van Gils
@roelvangils.bsky.social
Founder at Eleven Ways. Other half of @skerit. I mostly write about #ux, #a11y, #design and #tech. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.
macOS (and iOS 26.1) adds an option to effectively remove the Liquid Glass effect. For me, it's a no-brainer to enable this feature. #accessibility
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I don’t like the abundance of SF Symbols icons that macOS Tahoe adds to my menus; they create visual clutter. I wish there were a hidden setting to turn them off. Apple taught me that less is more, and now this. Yuck 🙂
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The new Automix feature in Apple Music on macOS Tahoe (beta) is pretty neat. Similar to Automix in the Djay app (www.algoriddim.com/apps)

And this is a nice surprise: it DOES work over AirPlay (even though they say it doesn’t)! Perhaps they added this feature later and forgot to update that info.
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
OMG
May 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I've been using Shazam to build a database of all the music around me. I created a small CLI utility for this: github.com/roelvangils/....

May 21 is my birthday… and look at the first song Spotify “shuffled” for me on this day! 😁
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Some bugs will just remain unfixed forever.
April 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
LOL @ this Apple Commercial. C’mon, Apple, it’s not wooden floors that we are worried about! 🙄 It’s CONCRETE! 🧱

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdR3...
April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What's wrong with Apple? This ad is so weird! Why are we seeing Excel on the guy's screen (and not Numbers)? And why is the guy looking at a spreadsheet with extremely high KPIs? What's the message here? That only rich people can afford nano-texture displays? www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1fB...
April 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
macOS comes bundled with an excellent version of Chess, but did you know it also includes everyone's favorite game… Tetris? 🙂 To be more precise, it’s part of zsh, the default shell on macOS. Just open your favorite Terminal app and type:

- autoload -Uz tetriscurses && tetriscurses
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It looks like Apple is starting to catch up with their AI promises!
April 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I just installed Microsoft Word on macOS because, yeah well, I had to open a complex document. When I explored its settings, I realized I miss the “spotlight on the relevant settings” search UI that Microsoft borrowed from Apple (but Apple abandoned itself five years ago) 😁 That was cool, right?
February 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wonder when my Limitless Pendant is finally shipping. I pre-ordered it 16 months ago. I hear they've been hard at work, and I'm pretty excited to finally try it out! 🙂

www.limitless.ai#pendant
February 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Humanoid robots are just around the corner, according to Jensen Huang, and they will all be powered by NVIDIA. Just look at this picture from yesterday’s keynote at CES! 😮 14 (competing!) humanoid robots are lined up in a row, some already working their mechanical asses off in Chinese factories.
January 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
That's such a Coolblue thing to do. Nice touch!
January 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
13 days… seriously? 😵‍💫 #RaycastWrapped
December 16, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Rocking my blue beanie today (well, sort of) to support
#webstandards and digital #accessibility! 🧢 Because everyone deserves equal access to the web. Happy #BlueBeanieDay. Let's keep the tradition alive, mister @zeldman.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
@mvuille.bsky.social Ik zie op jouw blog (blog.zog.org) dat jouw uploadsnelheid verrassend hoog is. Hoe komt dat? 🙂 Ik was aan ’t kijken op de site van Orange omdat het Black Friday is, maar ik zie daar geen mogelijkheid om meer dan 50 mbps upload te kopen. Hoe doe jij dat?
November 29, 2024 at 9:06 AM
That JaGUar rebranding is one of the weirdest I've ever seen.
November 27, 2024 at 11:05 AM