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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.

UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Husband. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

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I really like the swappable face plate on Valve's new Steam Machine

/via https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The new LEGO Enterprise 1701-D is gorgeous. I'm not one for the Star Wars display sets, but this gets me going

(Definitely not this music though)
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
⭐️ Updated my visionOS 'Safari Tab Bar' sample code to use the new custom hover effects introduced in visionOS 2.0, so the address bar now expands when you look at it (something impossible in earlier versions of the OS)

#samplecode

https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/SafariTabBar
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
FB20908229 — [visionOS] Please provide an API to allow window docking for UIKit window scenes

#radars
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And this is what UIKit window docking looks like in video form.

(The skulls were just to denote the bounds of the dock location in the RealityKit scene, since it's invisible and I had to do a lot of debugging to figure this out… This is what it's like at the bleeding edge 😅)
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FB20906757 — [visionOS] ImmersiveSpace does not register properly in UIHostingSceneDelegate and can't be invoked

#radars
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Widgets on visionOS can work very well as app launchers that you can keep around the house rather than leaving app windows open. Apps spawn right on top of their widget when invoked.

This kind of widget isn't something apps do by default, though, but now […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM