Want to add some "squish" to your Compose UI? 🧶

I just released RubberTextView! It’s a simple way to add springy, rubber-band drag interactions to your labels.

Drag to stretch.
Release to snap.
It’s that satisfying.

Check it out on GitHub, and don't say bojio! 😉
github.com/delacrixmorg...

FF7’s Shinra Building climb is getting a board game — and it’s kind of genius Final Fantasy 7: Ascend the Shinra Building will be released this fall

Final Fantasy 7: Ascend the Shinra Building will be released this fall

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate..”
- Carl Jung

GitHub - delacrixmorgan/scaffolds-kmp: Scaffolds - KMP Collapsible Scaffolds 🏗️ Scaffolds - KMP Collapsible Scaffolds 🏗️. Contribute to delacrixmorgan/scaffolds-kmp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Stop reinventing the wheel and start building interactions that delight. 🎉
github.com/delacrixmorg...

- Scroll-Aware Magic: Effortless collapsing headers and parallax effects.
- Truly Multiplatform: Native feel on iOS & Android, powerhouse performance on Desktop, and cutting-edge WASM support.
- Mix & Match: Flexible components that fit your use case, not the other way around.

Let’s be honest: writing custom scroll-aware animations is a pain. That’s why I've built Scaffolds (yes, with an s).

It’s a KMP library designed to give your apps those high-end, polished interactions without the boilerplate.
Why you'll love it:

Make Your MacBook Battery Last Longer With This Setting If you own a MacBook and work from home, it's easy to have your laptop plugged in for hours on end without thinking about the long-term battery life implications. Fortunately, Apple recently added a setting that lets you cap how high your Mac's battery charges, and if you own an iPhone that was released in the last few years, you may already be familiar with it. Lithium-ion batteries generally degrade fastest when held at a high state of charge, which means keeping your iPhone or your Mac's battery at 100 percent accelerates the chemical wear that permanently reduces its actual capacity over time. To mitigate this on iPhone 15 and newer models, Apple lets you set a Charge Limit that prevents your device from charging beyond 80, 85, 90, 95, or 100 percent. And in macOS Tahoe 26.4, Apple has brought over the same Charge Limit feature to Macs for the first time. This option differs from Optimized Battery Charging, which learns your daily routine and delays charging past 80 percent until you're likely to need a full battery. Depending on your usage, however, your Mac may still regularly reach 100 percent. Setting a charge limit prevents that. Obviously a lower charge cap means less time you'll be able to work away from a power outlet. But if you mostly sit at a desk with your MacBook plugged in, the trade-off is worth the long-term battery gains. That said, if you regularly rely on your Mac away from power, then you may want to opt for a higher cap, which should hopefully still curb battery wear without leaving you completely stranded. Either way, here's how to set the feature: Set a MacBook Battery Charge Limit in macOS * Click the Apple symbol () in your Mac's menu bar and open System Settings.... * Click Battery in the sidebar. * Click the i button next to Charging. * Drag the Charge Limit slider to your preferred level: 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, or 100%, then click Done. That's all there is to it. Your Mac will now stop charging once it hits the level you chose, and Optimized Battery Charging will continue to work in the background unless you switch it off in the same panel. Note that even with Optimized Battery Charging set to a limit below 100%, your Mac will occasionally charge to 100% so that macOS can maintain accurate battery level estimates, but for the most part it will stick to the specified maximum level. This article, "Make Your MacBook Battery Last Longer With This Setting" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

Make Your MacBook Battery Last Longer With This Setting

“Goals are about the results you want to achieve.
Systems are about the processes that lead to those results..”
- James Clear (Atomic Habits)

Only in the Netherlands can a replacement wheel €185 cost more than the entire bike €120 🚲

They pride themselves as the beacon of sustainability, eco-friendly and for the environment, yet it doesn't make any financial sense to repair them.

How does that make any sense?

"There are no mistakes, only opportunities.."
- Tina Fey

"Data, data, data. I can't make bricks without clay.."
- Arthur Conan Doyle

COVID-19 was the push we needed to normalise working from home culture and digitalising our workflows.

Would the Iranian War be the catalyst we need to finally force humanity to break away from our reliance on fossil fuels?

Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027 Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping investigative report by The New York Times ($). The previously unreported briefing was apparently held in a secure room in Silicon Valley in July 2023. The meeting is said to have been arranged at the request of the then-commerce secretary Gina Raimondo, who had grown frustrated with the tech industry's reluctance to move chip production away from Taiwan. CIA director William Burns and director of national intelligence Avril Haines reportedly presented the latest intelligence on China's military plans to Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. Cook reportedly told officials afterward that he slept "with one eye open." A similar classified session was said to have been held at the White House in late 2021, but executives left skeptical because much of the intelligence had already been reported publicly. Earlier that same year, a senior U.S. military official had told Congress that the armed services believed President Xi Jinping of China wanted his army to be ready to take Taiwan by 2027. From the report: Jake Sullivan, Mr. Biden's national security adviser, ranked the U.S. reliance on Taiwan for semiconductors as one of America's greatest vulnerabilities. He wanted the industry to recognize the risk and support construction of U.S. manufacturing plants. Mr. Biden also wanted to provide $50 billion in government subsidies to build semiconductor plants domestically [resulting in the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022]. "We were saying: 'This is crazy. We have to do something about it,'" Mr. Sullivan said in an interview.The investigation reveals Silicon Valley's stubborn dependence on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which produces around 90 percent of the world's most advanced chips, including all of Apple's custom silicon for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A confidential 2022 report commissioned by the Semiconductor Industry Association and reviewed by NYT concluded that losing access to Taiwan's chip supply would trigger the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with U.S. GDP falling 11 percent. Another report by Bloomberg from January 2024 estimated a conflict would cost the global economy more than $10 trillion. Despite the warnings, the NYT investigation found that companies including Apple were initially slow to commit to buying more expensive chips from U.S. factories. Chips made domestically cost more than 25 percent above those produced in Taiwan because of higher material, labor and permitting costs, and TSMC's Arizona plants currently run technology a generation behind what's available on the island. Apple has since taken steps, however. Last summer, Cook visited the Oval Office and committed to investing $100 billion in the United States, with the money being used to support TSMC and other chip manufacturers. Apple has reportedly also begun holding all-day engineering meetings with Intel to evaluate its manufacturing capabilities. TSMC has now committed to roughly $165 billion in U.S. investment, including land for at least five additional plants in Phoenix. The company's Arizona facility recently produced Nvidia's first U.S.-made AI chip, although the report notes that even those chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan for advanced packaging. Meanwhile, Taiwan's government maintains an unofficial policy requiring TSMC to keep its most advanced manufacturing technology on the island. This "silicon shield" is designed to make the country too economically important to attack – yet Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shown that economic self-interest does not necessarily prevent military aggression. TSMC's CFO said earlier this year that its most advanced processes will remain in Taiwan for the foreseeable future.Tags: China, New York Times, Taiwan, Tim Cook, TSMC This article, "Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027

Had a 3D printer moment! Remember the joke where 3D printer is the only thing you'll need because it can print any replacement parts including its own?

Yesterday, I've witnessed an MCP writing another MCP in order to get it to work.

Will this whole LLM AI rise be the last thing we'll ever need?

Had a 3D printer moment yesterday, the joke where 3D printer is the only thing you'll need because it can bring any replacement parts including its own?

I've witnessed it with an MCP writing another MCP in order to get it to work.

Will this whole LLM AI rise be the last thing we'll ever need?

We mourn our craft I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

"And yet here we are. The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months.."
- Nolan Lawson
nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w...

"I didn’t ask for the role of a programmer to be reduced to that of a glorified TSA agent, reviewing code to make sure the AI didn’t smuggle something dangerous into production.."

"I didn’t ask for this and neither did you.

I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it.."

It wasn't perfect, but it was the start of everything. Cheers to 10 years of shipping and more to come! 🚀

As Guy Kawasaki said:

"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap—but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."

From that one drinking game app, it has now grown up to:
📱 6 Apps on the Google Play Store
📦 3 Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) Libraries
🛠️ 1 IntelliJ Plugin (and counting!)

That app, King’s Cup, is still going strong today. It’s been through countless iterations, even helped me land jobs, and remains something I can truly call my own.

A lot has changed since then:
- Java ➡️ Kotlin
- XML Layouts ➡️ Jetpack Compose
- Jungle of Incoherent Code ➡️ ViewModel, MVI, Hilt

The tech stack is unrecognisable, but the spark is the same. I still love building things that are accessible in everyone’s hands.

It started as a wager with a university mate to see who could publish first. I won a meal of Texas Fried Chicken that day, but I gained something much bigger: the pride of finally being able to say, “I write apps!”

A Texas Fried Chicken Wager to 10 Years on the Google Play Store 🍗📱

Waking up this morning, February 6th, 2026, I was greeted by a Facebook memory from 10 years ago today. It was a screenshot of my very first Android app live on the Play Store.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.."
- Charles Darwin

“Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people; used to control people instead of to free them. Time to change all that—we need a People’s Computer Company..”

Looks like Compose UI is finally addressing a long-standing issue on Android where the experience of scrolling nested lists hasn't felt as good as on iOS.

issuetracker.google.com/issues/26962...

Just migrated my Rolling Numbers and Spindler libraries from Jitpack to Maven Central, that can only mean one thing.

Apple Creator Studio With an Apple Creator Studio subscription, get intelligent tools in Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro, plus premium productivity content.

The era of "buy once, own forever" is officially put on notice at Apple.

The new Creator Studio subscription locks the new features behind a $129/year paywall. While you can still "buy" apps like Final Cut Pro for now, the writing is on the wall.

How long until the "Buy" button disappears forever?