Liam Hogan 🐀

having lost my formal titles, I am back to being just an amateur tech wizard

[Liam Hogan 🐀 @liam_vs_bird]

@SnazzyLabs Any word on if the new EQ feature actually “fixes” the AirPod Pro 3s?

[big fat ugly bug-face baby-eating ols @heyitsols]

Common @SnazzyLabs W: “the good version of this product finds what’s already yours. The bad version (the version that everybody keeps pushing with AI) manufactures more garbage that real people just have to sift through”

[Roxle @Roxleton]

i didnt even notice but they axed a lot of the icons on mac wow

[icon (5-core GPU) @iconredesign]

Allowing people to turn off Liquid Glass entirely and revert entirely to blurred frosted glass is a tacit admission that the Liquid Glass redesign did not work

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

This has to be a bit

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

Only in Illustrator. If you use Photoshop, everything is a pixel. Honestly a bit disappointed in Murakami for not knowing that.

[† lucia scarlet 🩸 @luciascarlet]

I really really really dislike the touchscreen MacBook Pro rumours because I just do not want a macOS that has to make design compromises centred around poking it with your finger

they are fundamentally different design paradigms and should stay separate

one good mouse-only experience >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mediocre mouse experience and mediocre touch experience

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

'Andor' creator Tony Gilroy on his approach if he were President of Lucasfilm

“If I was going to do that job, I would rather go down swinging. I’d rather go down in flames. As low-risk as my life is, my creative life is pretty high-risk, so I’d like to swing away. Safety has never been one of my navigational principles"

(via @THR)

[dustin curtis @dcurtis]

Liquid Glass is a design cancer.

It consumes and overwhelms everything it touches by adding intense distortions, drop shadows, lighting effects, and unnatural spacing to controls and UI in ways that make them harder to see and understand.

It is pretty, and seductive, but it makes every interface it touches worse by prioritizing fun effects over common sense design principles like contrast, uniformity, readability, and sane information density.

Liquid Glass is the antithesis of great UI design: it is fashion. Form over function.

Great design “isn’t just what it looks like, it’s how it works”. And Liquid Glass makes nearly everything it touches look pretty, but work worse.

[CrimsonKoning 🏴 @Konijn370576]

omega flowey: NO!!!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!!!!
the seven Zohran mandanis :

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

What I love most about iOS 26 is how everything now takes 1–2 extra taps, since previously available features are buried in the name of design.

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

This single-step Apple Shortcut is a GAME CHANGER. No more going to Settings -> Apps -> and then finding the app.

Just swipe from Control Center, run the shortcut, and you’re automatically redirected!

[Liam Hogan 🐀 @liam_vs_bird]

go watch my friend’s ridiculously polished youtube video about video games

[Cocoa 🐀 @CapnCocoa]

I don't usually post here, but I just finished one of my biggest videos to date, my 2024 games tier list retrospective! I rattle off about games like Pokémon Scarlet, Mario Wonder, the Portal games, Hades, and a whole lot more. Check it out! https://t.co/vyy5S6gfE8

[Tailosive Tech @TailosiveTech]

Hey Tim, do you know what button to press on my MacBook to lower the display brightness?

Tim:

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Can we stop acting like the iPhone mini was some tragic failure caused by a few Twitter pundits? Apple does massive market research, and the mini wasn’t a failure—it was one of the best-selling phones overall. Worst-selling iPhone? Sure, but so is the Plus that replaced it.

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

👍👍👍

[Ian Zelbo @ianzelbo]

Kinda insane how hard the Browser Company fell off

It was completely voluntary too… they could have just not abandoned their main product

[ScottFalco @ScottFalco]

So who else is scared to ever play competitive Splatoon again because of this