I don’t want a TUI for interacting with agents.

I would like a proper, native GUI with thoughtful behaviours and great host platform integration.

I’m sorely tempted to write a native, dev-focused agent orchestration UI, but it seems pointless when OpenAI or Anthropic’ll just take whatever works or is good and roll it into their own non-native, cross platform apps.

Cute idea, but I’m a bit tired of apps putting their data in non-standard locations.

Wait, you’re trying to use *any* social media for serious discussion?

Joe…

Offering a free online class titled “how to ignore the thing you don’t like on the internet”

Just one more hit bro

One more subscription payment till AGI bro

This is yet another reminder that using AI doesn't make the product better, when you don't have a team that is customer-obsessed / product obsessed.

And a team that is customer/product-obsessed without AI (or very little AI) will still run laps around one with AI...

Yes, I’ve had both agents edit XIBs and Storyboards - they’re just XML, so it’s fine. Well, as fine as agent output anything is, I guess - you’ll need to adjust the result, given that it’s UI and you should care about such things.

I’m sure I read Pete S on X saying this was a no-go. He included some off-the-cuff quip about native frameworks being dead, so 🤷🏻

I hope Thomas joining is an indication that they value the UX enough to do better/more.

Congrats, Thomas - I hope you have a blast!

Okay, I’m back.

In some fashion.

I’ve read, I’ve pondered, I’ve experimented, and will continue to do all three.

I’m clear enough now on a great many things that were worrying me about our profession and its future that my anxiety is at a manageable level.

I hope you’re all doing amazing 🍃

I am having trouble with anxiety and I attribute some of it to social media, so I’m going to log off for a while and try to reset.

If anybody needs or wants to talk, my email address is on my website or you can DM me on the various Slacks we all hang out on.

Be well, folks 🌻

or 7

If you’re finding joy or amusement in other folks discomfort, guess what? You might be the problem.

I’ve lost a north star here, and it’s heartbreaking because there’s no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.

I have spent my career leaning on Apple’s excellent design chops when building my own apps.

Now they’ve broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it’s not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences.

The spacing and padding also seems to be “best efforts” (check the device icons).

I want to be kind, but this design and experience feels like a lot of “good enough, ship it”.

Image of Apple’s App Store app on macOS showing the Creator Studio package page.

The attention to detail in Apple’s App Store app is just… not there. I draw your attention to the “Available on” subtitles below each app in the grid — they’re inconsistently truncated, some not even indicating that they *are* truncated.

Thank you 🫶🏻

@aeronautapp.com would you consider adding keyboard shortcuts for the tabs in your app? I’m used to spamming ⌘1, ⌘2, etc to shift between the tabs in my social media apps.

Hit me up when you get a break from client work — I’m happy to chat more and show you the specifics if it’ll help save you time/energy.

GitHub - cirruslabs/macos-image-templates Contribute to cirruslabs/macos-image-templates development by creating an account on GitHub.

I managed mine manually for years, but then I switched to using github.com/cirruslabs/mac… (macos-tahoe-xcode:latest) and haven’t looked back.

Are you integrating with GitHub Actions?

Are you building your own images?

“People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence. If you outsource all your thinking to computers, you stop upskilling, learning, and becoming more competent” 🍺

When I hear otherwise well respected, competent developers saying that they don’t write code anymore, what my brain translates that to is “My skills are atrophying through the use of these tools, so I need you to also not write code so that this Ponzi scheme doesn’t collapse”.

Yeah like a decade ago it should have worn off by now tho

How so?

Us developers have learned the hard way that:

1. Prototyping is more like 10% of the actual work - even though the business folks thinks we're 90% done

2. Shipping prototypes to production is possible but generally a bad idea

Vibe coding is prototyping. Others will learn - soon

Method dispatch mechanisms in Swift: static and dynamic dispatch Dive into how static and dynamic dispatch work in Swift, how they affect performance, and how to control method resolution to write faster, more efficient code.

It can be difficult to find a clear, concise explanation of how method dispatch works in Swift, when calls are resolved statically or dynamically, and what that means for performance.

I wrote a post summarizing my learnings, with key cases and examples: nilcoalescing.com/blog/MethodD...

#SwiftLang

I mean… I don’t want to upset you, but they’re sort of everywhere. The zoo is just telling you about it 😅

Method is definitely the correct term for a function attached to a type, but the language does call them functions/func, so maybe it’s a change?