Finished reading: The Mother by T. M. Logan 📚

Parker Ortolani hits on something I’ve been thinking about with regard to liquid glass. Every time I come across critiques of the design language I wonder why Apple isn’t adding colour to the glass as a solution to some of the problems. They can even call it stained glass.

I love this idea from Louie Mantia for a new app called Buddies.

In the transition from services like AOL Instant Messenger to services like iMessage, I think we lost the intentionality of chatting with friends. Weirdly, I also feel like I lost a very specific buddy-list shaped window on the left side of my screen.

A few weeks ago I found myself searching for an old favourite of mine, Adium. It was this same line of thought that lead me to look for it. I miss having the casual chat with friends on the side of my screen.

My friend and very talented artist Ellie won an award recently. She’s been interviewed please give it a read.

The last few days I’ve seen a few links shared that go to substack, every single time I’ve seen the url and turned away from clicking through. Same with Medium. Each time I say to myself, why don’t they have their own blog I’d much rather visit that.

Figma is so close to working really well on iPadOS 26. If they can make zooming with a trackpad work like it does on the Mac then it’s basically there.

I’m trying out a new way of writing at the moment, trying to set a scene and tell a story. It’s fun, but it feels like I’m turning more and more introspective each time and I’m not sure how much of a good thing that is.

Trying a new thing this week. When I’m at my desk for work, my iPhone is not with me it’s across the other side of the room. Let’s see what impact this has on my mood and concentration levels.

I had somehow missed that when using tiling on the Mac you can drag the gap between two windows to resize them like the old split view on iPadOS.

Decided to give the new Reeder a go for RSS. Seems to be ok after the first day, but we’ll see how well it syncs up.