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So, now that we have Liquid Glass on all Apple operating systems, who lost the most of its personality? The Mac or the iPad?
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Invoking the notifications center with iPadOS 26 while using an external display will blank out the external display and bring the notifications on the iPad screen only. I’m not sure this is the final behaviour. I don’t like it at all.
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Testing iPadOS 26 with external display right now and boy this release makes the iPad THE computer we were all waiting for. Well, maybe not everybody… works really great so far.
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Starting with my new job next week, I won’t be able to use LucidChart anymore and that makes me sad. LucidChart is such a pleasure to use and has been supporting my creativity for a few years until this week. The next best thing is Apple Freeform, but I won’t have access to this either. Hello Microsoft Visio. 🙄
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Started to think about my knowledge organisation scheme with Microsoft OneNote for my next job. OneNote works with Notebooks, Sections and pages. I might start with one notebook then later subdivide the data as my knowledge accumulates. I don’t hate OneNote. It’s a rather well designed app IMO.
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Who’s reading or paying attention to the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter?
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From 2009 to 2013, I was learning building iPhone apps as a hobbyist developer and created a few apps sold on the App Store1. This is how I learned Objective-C. It was before Swift, the iPad and Catalyst. Fast-forward to today, I wonder how my learning experience would have been if generative AI was around.
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I made about $5000 doing so. Not bad. ↩︎
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One of Liquid Glass’s foundational principles is to prioritize user content, at least to my knowledge. However, my experience so far has been the opposite: Liquid Glass is often “in your face” and takes center stage.
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There are many positive and some less favorable aspects in Apple’s first betas and Liquid Glass. I’m eager to see how much Apple will improve them before the official release. Will they remain stubborn, or will they show openness and make meaningful adjustments? How much can they change without appearing to compromise their design principles?
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Where can I find the videos of an interviewer pressing Apple executives about their strained relationship with the developer community? There is no one to be found, actually. Even Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal avoids this topic. It was a conference for developers! Instead, everyone focused on questions about Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Liquid Glass. Is this a lack of courage, laziness or simply being afraid not to be able to talk to Apple execs in the future? 🤔
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It appears that Apple’s Freeform didn’t get any attention in this year updates… am I missing something? Still a stunning app, though.
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I’m happy to see real windows coming to iPadOS 26 but with it comes manual windows management. Opening an app does open it full screen, but resizing is required and sometimes the resizing is guided by constant centering of the window until it is moved elsewhere. Hard to describe but it adds interaction complexity.
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Look at the Finder’s window top. 😵💫 Not exactly the best overall visual effects. As in the real world, seeing through glass can lead to weird things, just like here. BTW, CleanShot X edit window top bar isn’t working on macOS Tahoe beta1. Beware.
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In macOS Tahoe beta1 Finder, some app icons exhibit gray inset (Things icon for example in this screenshot). Weird. Speaking of the Finder, things feels janky in beta1.
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I’m curious about people’s appreciation level of Apple Liquid Glass by age group. Younger people probably don’t care or like it because it’s flashy but as they will get older they might change their mind because of the lack of readability. And by then Apple will probably be back with a more opaque design. 🤭
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The size of the OS install on iPadOS 26 was 2x bigger than on M2 MacBook Air. Surprising. Update: it’s about 2 GB less.
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Since I have two Macs (M4 Mac mini + M2 MacBook Air), I think I’m going to install macOS Tahoe on my MBA just to kick the tires and see how good or bad things are… I hope it’s better than on my iPad.
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My days of using Notion for work are counted. I started using Notion in 2023, but I realize that I should have started well before that. Sadly, I won’t be allowed to use such “non-standard” tool at my next job. The standard is: Microsoft 365 + Confluence. 🥴
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I’m officially starting a new job in less than two weeks. As I clean up my belongings at my current employer, I’m amazed by how much content I’ve gathered and created over the past seven years. Most of it, about 80%, is now worthless.
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While the iPadOS 26 beta 1 is very buggy, after watching this video, I’m very tempted to install macOS Tahoe beta1 on my M2 MacBook Air. Would love to get feedback about stability compared to iPadOS.
