Hongzhi Chen

Building @getsessio — a fast, native HTTP debugging proxy.

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@cyandev 还记得早期版本的 Xcode IB 也是分体式设计😅

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

Download: https://t.co/gI7HdtBQ1I

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

Sessio 2026.3.1 is here 🎉
This release adds tab support for easier session organization and switching, along with larger, more readable interface text.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

After I read two articles yesterday about AI and the rat race I felt the urge to write. https://t.co/Tw1yWDCeqh

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@nitzukai Dark mode

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@nitzukai @1000kilobytes I’ve already implemented a similar effect in my app, Sessio, on macOS 26. https://t.co/HQxt0UNPz6 😎

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

Building AI agents? Inspect the traffic behind them.
Sessio reveals every HTTP request, response, and retry in a fast, native Mac app, so you can understand what your agents are actually doing, not just what their logs say.
Try the beta: https://t.co/HQxt0UNPz6

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@Droppyformac @getsessio That’s a fair point. The Combined Inspector already lets you see the request and response together, while the message-based is designed more for smaller screens. But yeah, the overall UX could still use some work. Thanks for the feedback!

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

Say hello to Sessio (@getsessio).
I’ve been building it for quite some time. It’s a beautifully crafted native Mac app that makes HTTP debugging faster, clearer, and more enjoyable.
The first beta is out today, and I’m so happy to finally share it.
https://t.co/HQxt0UNPz6

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

You can still create a beautiful, compact UI for macOS using Liquid Glass. #macOS #AppKit #LiquidGlass

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

Say hello to Sessio (@getsessio).
I’ve been building it for quite some time. It’s a beautifully crafted native Mac app that makes HTTP debugging faster, clearer, and more enjoyable.
The first beta is out today, and I’m so happy to finally share it.
https://t.co/HQxt0UNPz6

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@dedene Maybe try Sessio (@getsessio ). It could make inspecting the traffic easier. 😎
https://t.co/HQxt0UNPz6

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Every year I try to build custom native UI with every-frame-perfect animations with SwiftUI, and every year after fighting against nature for a few days, I once again write custom NSViews with CoreAnimation layers. SwiftUI just isn't ready for that yet.

[Stephan Casas @stephancasas]

Setting 𝚏𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚒𝙶𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚃𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝙴𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚍 → 𝚈𝙴𝚂 in 𝚌𝚘𝚖.𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚎.𝚂𝚠𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚄𝙸 will let you play around with live liquid glass elements in macOS 27.

It's cursed, but it's also really fun.

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@dotey AI won’t build you a good AppKit app if you don’t really know AppKit.

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@krzyzanowskim Just use LaunchBar

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

when software had a soul

there was a moment around 2005 when using a Mac felt like touching something alive.

the dock bounced. the genie effect swooped. exposé scattered your windows like cards on a table. none of it was strictly necessary. all of it felt like someone cared – not about metrics, but about the feeling of using a machine.

software back then had texture. it had a philosophy. you could feel the person behind it. someone made a decision to make that icon beautiful, to animate that transition just so, to write that error message with a little warmth. apps had personalities. some were weird. some were over-designed in ways that would make a modern PM flinch. but they were alive.

the web was the same. personal sites were genuinely personal. blogs felt like letters. forums had regulars. you knew who made what. the internet had neighborhoods, and each one felt different.

nothing was optimized for scale. things were made by people who loved what they were making.

somewhere along the way, we traded all of that for growth.

A/B tests flattened the edges. design systems standardized the personality out. everything got faster, smoother, more consistent – and somehow less interesting. the quirks were removed because they didn't test well. the warmth got cut because it wasn't measurable. we optimized our way into a world of things that work perfectly and feel like nothing.
now every app looks the same. every interface follows the same patterns. every product speaks in the same calm, frictionless voice, siloed in their own little islands. the humanity got rounded off.

and then came AI agents. and the speed got inhuman.

now you can generate an entire product in an afternoon. ship a feature before lunch. spin up ten variations before anyone's had their coffee. the gap from idea to code is basically zero.

which sounds incredible. and it is. but there's a catch.

when making things are too easy, the slop comes for free too. mediocre things don't look obviously bad – they look fine. they work. they ship. they pass review. and now there are infinite of them. the internet is filling up with software that functions but means nothing. interfaces that are correct but feel dead. products made by agents, reviewed by no one, shipped into the void.

this is the thing that keeps me up at night. not that AI will replace people who care. but that it will drown them out.

here's what I still believe: the best things are made by people who couldn't help themselves. someone who lost sleep over an icon. who rewrote the same line of copy twelve times. who added an animation nobody asked for because it made the thing feel right. that obsession – that's not inefficiency. that's the whole point.

AI doesn't make that irrelevant. it actually makes it rarer and more valuable. taste is not a markdown skill. caring is not a parameter. the weird, specific, "soul" thing you put into something – that can't be programmed into existence.

the path forward isn't to make more slop faster. it's to finally give people with real vision the tools to make the thing they always imagined but couldn't build alone. the designer who had the idea but couldn't code. the kid who saw something nobody else saw. the person who cared too much about something most people wouldn't notice.

if we get this right, we don't get a faster factory. we get a renaissance. more strange, personal, opinionated software made by teams of people who care and mean it.

that's still possible. but only if the people who care get the space and tools to actually express themselves – and don't just hand the wheel to the agent and walk away.

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@cifilter @joshavant AppKit isn’t terrible; it’s just old.

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

I can't handle the names of some of these Chinese tech manufacturers...

[Hongzhi Chen @honzchen]

@mike_chong_zh https://t.co/igCs0wodVv

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

he doesn't know that this also counts lockfiles for node xD