valwal

20, design engineer @semanticalhq

[valwal @valwalcom]

new end-of-day animation from yesterday's update, now with a new sunburst shader ☀️

[valwal @valwalcom]

@Dimillian are you using a specific snapshotting library or did you roll your own?

[Dave Geddes @geddski]

This amazing TODO app that I've been beta testing just dropped!

I use it for everything: daily habits, reminders, my most important things for the day. It helps my wild brain actually focus :)

the dev Jürgen is also just an incredible, talented human.

https://t.co/zwYoveRpJv

[𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖊 𝖏𝖎𝖆𝖔 @eddiejiao_obj]

What if your whole computer were just pixels streamed to you from a model? I’ve been working with @zan2434 and @drewocarr to imagine a version of generative computing that’s much more flexible and visually rich than the GUIs we have today.

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[valwal @valwalcom]

@Stammy this is a modifier I created a while back inspired by React Wrap Balancer, you can use it with a smaller ratio to mimic text-wrap: pretty (balance would be a ratio closer to 1) https://t.co/6IBCMfT6uf

[valwal @valwalcom]

The button is a lightweight particle system. The shader is the sunburst effect behind the stars. The stars themselves are not vectors, they are 3D meshes.

If it’s specifically the 3D look you want to learn about I would recommend a beginner friendly game engine like @unitygames or @godotengine, or @rive_app for vector based faux 3D.

[valwal @valwalcom]

new end-of-day animation from yesterday's update, now with a new sunburst shader ☀️

[valwal @valwalcom]

@PierPuccini ah gotcha, those stars are actually true 3D rendered with SceneKit (Apple's game engine adjacent framework)

[valwal @valwalcom]

@PierPuccini if you're talking about the shader specifically, https://t.co/6bHFRxQp8t is a fantastic resource that got me started

[valwal @valwalcom]

@eke_ng_ ❤️

[valwal @valwalcom]

@troubledev_ thanks noel!

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@AdamWhitcroft to be fair this did used to be a limitation of early SwiftUI versions

[valwal @valwalcom]

@cifilter you can use the APIs of AffineTransform3D on iOS to get the matrices for a ProjectionTransform

[valwal @valwalcom]

@Dimillian Sendable is a @ _marker protocol so compile time only, it's impossible to cast a value to it

[valwal @valwalcom]

@pointfreeco Default main actor isolation was a reactionary bandaid, a stain on Swift's otherwise beautiful concurrency story. Should have been a new language mode if they really deemed it worth the churn or never added at all.

[valwal @valwalcom]

@samhenrigold I'd be curious to hear more about how you define fussy. Any egregious examples you're willing to throw under the bus?

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@sketch @MarceloMarfil can't wait!! that glass toolbar looks stunning

[valwal @valwalcom]

From glass materialize transitions to bright HDR colors, this update makes use of all the latest iOS 26 goodies. Grab the TestFlight invite at https://t.co/9qfvQcZeCA :)

[valwal @valwalcom]

Ivy has been updated with liquid glass. Check it out on TestFlight!

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@louisagareiss looks like there's still some space for ivy by @semanticalhq 👀

[valwal @valwalcom]

my favorite part of the day

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