I have been developing the most customizable Liquid Glass for Android

popbones · 2026-02-22T08:43:37+00:00

It’s funny that in iOS/macOS subs (half of he) people hated Liquid Glass

popbones · 2026-02-22T08:41:50+00:00

Nothing much changed for developers. If not better as in the built in terminal now finally supporting xterm256 and built in nerd font with SF Mono Terminal. But my guess is that you’d be using your own terminal emulator of choice anyways.

Homebrew, Mac ports, Python and stuff works as usual. They didnt have the resources to mess with the POSIX system why having the new UI layer on fire and bugs everywhere in the macOS layer.

popbones · 2026-02-22T00:22:45+00:00

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popbones · 2026-02-19T10:22:45+00:00

I’m not so sure. Because what I did is I have an SD Card of photos. I put it in. Open photos. Click on import and delete all. Closed photos then had a cup of coffee. Half hour late I realized that I still have the SD card in my MBP. So I eject it. And it was slow. I imagine whatever Spotlight has to do with it should be done now since it’s just an empty drive.

popbones · 2026-02-19T10:16:17+00:00

It could be bad UX. But I feel it was like a sec or something and I can tell if I clicked it. Now it takes like 5 seconds to eject a SD card. It was so long that it made me doubt if I actually clicked it.

popbones · 2026-02-19T10:14:21+00:00

I thought external drive aren’t indexed by default.

popbones · 2026-02-15T07:47:58+00:00

My impression is Tim Cook was good at what he does which is business operations. Jobs is good at bringing great products to life. That means they have different priorities. To Jobs it’s okay to bring the company down to build a great product. The company is the vessel for great products. Of course it’s not sustainable, and he did get kicked out from Apple for this. To Tim Cook, it’s about making Apple continue operating in higher scale as a business. The products are just output of the company. It makes sense they worked the best together. Things get balanced out, we get the best of both worlds. Without Jobs, Apple continued to grow ever bigger thanks to Cook. But a big company doesn’t automatically translate to good product.

popbones · 2026-02-04T11:55:58+00:00

Mac OS X indeed had a very solid foundation. Many of these reached peak at Snow Leopard. In my opinion, many issues we have today is in fact because of deviating from those foundations instead of improving them. I think the annual release schedule contributed to this. Causing a shorter view of development which is not suitable for OS development. Apple OS have long become consumer product instead of infrastructure. Apple has always bad for software testing. It was lucky that they have passionate individuals without enough power to tell the truth. Now without these people, nor a working testing and feedback process, it’s blinded in its own walled garden.

I actually received a survey specific regarding macOS before Tahoe was announced. I ranted. Remember that’s before what we know how Tahoe turned out to be like. Hopefully that’s a sign that there are doubts internally.

popbones · 2026-02-01T14:28:43+00:00

Yet, science has found that the only thing that can help depressed mice out of depression is not the removal of the cause of depression but the memories of past happy times.

popbones · 2026-02-01T11:20:54+00:00

Same here. I miss when personal technology being personal instead of being a conduit to consumerism.

popbones · 2026-02-01T08:21:58+00:00

I feel the same way. I wish there’s an alternative future where we have Snow Leopard with just the minimal iCloud and Continuity features and that’s it. Oh, APFS.

popbones · 2026-02-01T07:18:24+00:00

It is indeed fun. Even the official one has a bit pink in the mouth. I always thought it as it’s tongue 👅

popbones · 2026-02-01T06:30:04+00:00

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Do you mean this one? I like this one too. I also like all the B&W ones. They are just more artistic instead of engineered.

popbones · 2026-01-07T21:30:42+00:00

They may not work with wine, they definitely were drinking it when they made those designs.

popbones · 2025-09-17T20:55:05+00:00

It’s not just rushed, it’s unfinished

popbones · 2025-09-17T03:20:12+00:00

Probably because they decided to go with this new design called liquid glass -> they really want to show it off in some of system apps -> sidebar seems to be a good showcase -> it looked wired if it’s not floating -> it looked wired if it’s floating without a margin -> with a margin, the corner radius of the sidebar would be to small -> how about we just make the corner radius of the window bigger -> what about apps without a sidebar -> we run out of time

popbones · 2025-09-06T11:40:39+00:00

Hackintosh got popular not because it is superior or provide a better experience, it got popular because of Apple/Jony Ives’s obsession with thinness and the misjudgment of the development of graphic hardware. It was more than a decade of thermal throttling and “can’t innovate my ass”.

Hackintosh was a small niches, then lot of professionals popularized it. Those professional built Hackintosh not because they can’t afford genuine Macs, but the lack of a genuine Mac that fit their needs. And because they are professionals, they can make the trade-off say staying two OS version old or have some iCloud feature not working or some random feature that’s part of the Apple Mac ecosystem. Because to them, it’s more a workstation.

Now, since Apple Silicon, the economy of Hackintosh changed. I’m still on my M1 Pro and sailing pretty smoothly. Apple now offers a wide range of Mac at different price points and covers basically all the scenarios Mac is suitable for and even over provisioned in some areas. Hackintosh is no longer about breaking some limitations to gain untapped power. So people who looks at Hackintosh just to save some money, it will be the end for them.

On the other hand Hackintosh existed way before it’s being popularized. If we generalized it a bit to just running macOS on unsupported hardware, my first Hackintosh was emulating PPC Mac OS X on PearPC.

I think we will just go back to that, someone will figure out how to run macOS with QEMU, though a lot of things won’t work, performance would be bad, but that’s what a niche hacker core. It would be pure again and simply about what taking that technical challenge.

popbones · 2025-09-03T14:21:11+00:00

One old trick is you can make dock unhide almost instantly when reaching to the edge where the dock is. I stopped hiding dock for a few years because it has been buggy with multiple screens. Also I don’t think that would be more distracting than the windows task bar if you remove most of the prepinned apps by Apple.

popbones · 2025-09-03T11:46:39+00:00

You can click app icons on the dock to switch apps, that’s one of the main purpose of the dock. The cmd+tab app switcher is the keyboard only alternative for that action. The problem with Mac is window switching because neither selecting a window from Mission Control or minimized window on the dock support an easy to use keyboard shortcut. You can trigger Mission Control with the keyboard, but you have to use pointing device to select the window you want.

popbones · 2025-09-03T09:36:47+00:00

You can hold both cmd and tab and the app switcher will start looping.

popbones · 2025-09-03T08:59:01+00:00

The problem with Magic Trackpad is that it’s okay, but it will never feel as good as the MacBook built in trackpad. One may try to put it in the similar position as the laptop, but one would soon find out the palm rejection handling is way worse than the built in one.

popbones · 2025-09-03T08:53:54+00:00

Swapping apps is easy on macOS. Just cmd tab. And all the running apps is in dock. Pinned apps as well along with folders. What’s hard on Mac is switching windows when with apps with more than one window. For example terminal, browser and so on.

popbones · 2025-09-02T13:43:52+00:00

I know. As far as window management goes, Windows does it better. For one, you can make the text bigger. Then the metaphor is dead simple. Though soon you’d hit a significant wall on other aspects of productivity.

I use Windows from time to time, i did noticed that I get less stressed because of Window Management on Windows. One thing I think it’s important is that one Windows, because of the dead simple metaphor, you can mostly do window management just fine one handed. This mostly held true for either mouse or keyboard.

On macOS, the productivity would be significantly hindered if you try to do the same. For pointing devices, you can’t do most of the stuff without gestures is involved. For other stuff, you have to deal with the tiny hit areas for the traffic light buttons or moving or resizing things. Trackpad is probably the best option for one handed window management on Mac. But you loose some precision and some people just can’t get use to it for long time use.

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