Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
This week was exciting at the beginning with the release of Stream 1.6 and became pretty boring, pretty quickly.😀
It’s really nice to finally boot a new release of Stream out the door. It’s the first time I’ve ever released anything to coincide with the release of a new operating system. I don’t make a lot of noise about it, because I don’t really know how to! 😂
Anywho, it’s out there and I’m excited about it even if it only got one new feature and some tweaks to support iOS 26. If you’re a Stream user, thank you. 🙏🏼 I hope you’re enjoying it.
“Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah–the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly,”
SETEC ASTRONOMY… TOO MANY SECRETS.
RIP, Mr. Redford. 🪦
James Hibbard • The Hollywood Reporter
Jimmy Kimmel‘s latest monologue has ignited a political firestorm and resulted in ABC suspending the show.
I know folks don’t like it when I include politics, but this is some serious stuff. It’s trampling on our First Amendment rights and has to stop.
We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in concurrency and performance, Swift 6.2 delivers a broad set of features designed for real-world development at every layer of the software stack.
I still haven’t had the opportunity to look into strict concurrency but I do hope to at some point.
I was so happy to have done a bit of SwiftUI in Stream that I shred it with a colleague. She instantly found all the dumb things I’d done and straightened me out.😃
Thanks, Ms. Iryna! 🙏🏼
Israel-based Fiverr International is laying off 30% of its workforce, a company spokesperson said on Monday, as the online services marketplace doubles down on artificial intelligence to automate systems and streamline operations.
This experiment hasn’t worked for some companies. It’s darned useful, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not a be all end all. It’s like the next evolution in the hammer or a fancy screw driver that doesn’t strip screws. It just helps us get our jobs done.
Supporting Liquid Glass and the underlying system changes is a big undertaking and we still have more work to do. Since we build Xojo with Xojo, this means updating not only the Xojo framework but also parts of the IDE itself so it looks and behaves correctly on macOS 26 with Liquid Glass. Our goal is to let you use Liquid Glass in both built-in Xojo controls and third-party party plugins as soon as possible. That’s why the next release of Xojo, 2025r3, will be built for macOS 26 and iOS 26, giving your apps the latest look and feel while still allowing them to run on older versions of macOS and iOS.
Wow, I didn’t expect Xojo to be built with Xojo, but it makes sense. Here’s putting your money where your mouth is. I think that’s really impressive and to me it proves Xojo is industrial strength enough to build native apps for macOS, iOS, and Windows from a single source base. Kudos! 🤩
I just released Unread 4.6 with improvements to support Apple’s operating system updates.
A big congratulations to my friend, John! 🥳
Booting updates of your software out the door is always exciting.
I still use Stream on the Mac, even though it barely works, but I use Unread a lot. It’s a beautiful app and works how I’d expect it to work. Try it! It’s really good!
Trick ‘r Treat is getting its first nationwide theatrical release this October
This is something we watch every Halloween, a few times. We absolutely love it! When it hits theaters I’m gonna drag Kim out to see it with me on the big screen.
The idea of hosting a web server on a vape didn’t come to me instantly. In fact, I have been playing around with them for a while, but after writing my post on semihosting, the penny dropped.
So, yeah, a vape pen hosting a website is kind of awesome. Why? Because, that’s why! If you have the skill to pull it off, do it.
I’d still love to host a site on an old iPhone. They’re more than powerful enough to pull it off.
I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V.
There are so many smart, determined, folks out there in the world.
This kernel project is written in Zig, which I don’t know much about.
When is someone going to do this in pure Swift? The new low level language of choice seems to be Rust, but it could be Swift, right? Maybe? 🤔
Part of Chris Lattner’s vision for Swift was to use it as a systems level language. What happened to that goal?
Apple, of all people, should spend a little time creating a 100% Swift based OS to use on their backend.
I know, I know, it’s a lot of work and Apple already has an OS. But they still need to make better use of the language they’re pushing on developers. It should be a great way to build a more secure operating system.
There’s just one ongoing problem with Liquid Glass: it’s the wrong idea. Apple is trying to make a single interface metaphor work absolutely everywhere, and it just doesn’t. Frankly, I’m not sure any all-encompassing design language could feel right on everything from a watch to a phone to a TV to a headset. But I do know that Liquid Glass in particular, which is hell-bent on making everything feel deep and physical and layered, often just feels like clutter. And it feels least at home on Apple’s most important and popular devices.
I’ve been using iOS 26 on a test device since WWDC. It’s been fine. Did I see some oddities, yes, I did. Was it completely unusable? No, it wasn’t.
I have it on my daily driver now, I’m typing this post on it, and it’s been perfectly serviceable. On occasion I have lost a button in a background but it doesn’t happen often.
At the day job we haven’t upgraded to Tahoe, macOS 26, so I can’t say how it looks or works. We haven’t deployed it because some software folks use has been a bit janky. Our poor IT is tasked with getting all that squared away before we’re allowed to move forward.
