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[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

The new Swift Package "AquaForSwiftUI" is now available. It includes AquaButtonStyle, AquaToggleStyle, and AquaFrameModifier for SwiftUI.
https://t.co/WBj3IeeUgN

[Kris Puckett @krispuckett]

If you aren’t optimizing your iOS app for Siri AI and intents, you’re missing out.

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

アプリはOSやエージェントに intentを提供する立場になっていくんじゃないかと思ってたけど、それに加えて専門性のあるエージェントをOS側に提供する、コミュニケーションを取るって役割のものも出てくるんじゃないか

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Augmented Reality

[brendan @builtwbrendan]

When interactive tech meets projection mapping, you get this:

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

X app should be built with SwiftUI for easier cross-platform support?

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

The X Mac app is completely broken again. There really should be a usable Mac app given the resurgence going on the space -- or at least the iPad app should be compatible with macOS. @nikitabier

[Aquaer - アクエア @neality_aquaer]

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[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

注視したら反応してくれる感じ、すばらしい

[Null-ART @GOROman]

スマホカメラに映ってるものをAIが解説してくれるアプリ

ジャイロセンサと加速度センサーで止まったら解説するモードもつけた

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

At the same time, those who succeed within the market—and those who choose not to participate in it—both retain the freedom to pursue individuality

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Ultimately, software is a product, it follows what people demand. Same in music.
It’s not about minimal vs maximal, but individuality. As a commodity, it’s ruled by market forces.

[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.

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Perplexity computer needs its own App Store and Xcode

[Aquaer - アクエア @neality_aquaer]

Candy

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Imagine Perplexity Computer on your Apple Watch. Dictating tasks while you run and lift.

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Siri on Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines should be prioritized more. I want Apple to show us what AI-assisted UI can look like

[Aquaer - アクエア @neality_aquaer]

I like how the interface seamlessly blends digital elements into physical ones

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Apple needs to make SwiftUI as easy to use for designers as Figma

[Drew @drewocarr]

or just generate it from your phone 🫡

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

I think Siri is becoming the UI layer, with most apps restructured as Siri skills

[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

DOES APPLE MAKE SIRI AN APP

iOS 27 NEW APP SIRI

SUPERCHARGED, REBUILT FROM SCRATCH

AN APP ON YOUR PHONE

LIKE CHATGPT BUT IT'S SIRI AND POWERED BY GEMINI

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

Interesting to watch the minimalism vs maximalism battle

[erik @flowstated]

exploring ways to spin up agents from my phone

iOS shortcuts × github actions × cursor cli

[Ethan Lipnik @EthanLipnik]

I built the most advanced IDE for iPad that has ever come. It's basically Xcode for iPad.

It implements its own Swift interpreter, allowing iOS and visionOS to run code and SwiftUI apps (with UIKit support).

It is even faster than SwiftUI Previews on macOS.

More to show soon. Will be able to replace the Mac for many developers and allow developers that didn't have access to developer tools this advanced to now build whatever they want.

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

What Apple really needs right now isn’t making things look prettier. It’s a fundamental UI reinvention with AI at the center

[Neality - ニアリティ @neality_]

I honestly don’t get why people think the design they loved will magically come back just because he’s gone

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

The many people happy about Alan Dye leaving Apple are missing the bigger point: he was Apple’s head of design and he left to run design at maybe Apple’s primary competitor. *That* is the enormous development. Apple is losing top people like it hasn’t in 30 years.