Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple’s design team — 9to5Mac

Halide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple’s human interface design team.

Woah! I’m happy for him, and I think it’s a big plus for Apple in general. I always admired his work, both in Halide and on his website.

Yesterday night I installed and configured ClawdBot on my M4 Mac mini sitting on my home office desk. Now, I’m remote-controlling it with Discord, preferring it over Telegram or iMessage because Discord support in ClawdBot felt more mature. I can ask simple things and get simple answer. It’s exciting. Yet, it was more complicated than I originally thought. ClawdBot is a nerdy thing for really nerd people. More comments about ClawdBot can be found on MacStories.

I see a lot of potential for learning and testing new things with ClawdBot. I’ll probably dedicate a lot of my spare time to it in the coming months. But for now, because I’m very close to leaving for a vacation trip to Egypt, I’ll put that aside for a few weeks.

Open source vs. open platforms — Manton Reece

Open source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both.

Well balanced point of view, something we see less and less often these days.

Yesterday, I suscribed to Edovia’s Screens so that I could remote control my Mac mini upstair to configure ClawdBot where it is running. Like many other apps, Screens now comes with Liquid Glass support and it’s a mixed bag. Plus, this thing is a battery drain powerhouse! 🫣 I’ve been using Screens 3 a long time ago when we couldn’t remote control into other Macs via FaceTime. I’m happy to see it still around, especially that I know the developer behind it.

Here’s a very short demo of RSS Flow.

At this rate, I wonder if I could create a custom-build, highly feature-focused Inoreader replacement using Claude Code. My experience so far with RSS Flow seems to confirm that I could, piece-by-piece.

I’m putting the final touches on a few of my web apps before going on a two-week vacation. One nice thing is that my RSS Flow app can call my Microblog Poster app to quickly create a link post from a text selection in RSS Flow.

I’m not sure it was a good idea to put my GitHub repos inside iCloud Drive Documents folder. Some of my projects have more than 50K files inside of them, thanks to dependancies. The fileproviderd process consumes quite a lot of CPU cycles at times.

I visited some friends this weekend and talked about Apple’s latest software updates. The general sentiment seems to be that they don’t like the updates (iOS 26 as well as the “new weird and fuzzy look”). Apple no longer delights users. 😔

iPhone 18 Pro: Leaker Reveals Alleged Size of Smaller Dynamic Island — MacRumors

The account “Ice Universe” today claimed the Dynamic Island cutout on the iPhone 18 Pro models will be approximately 35% narrower than it is on the iPhone 17 Pro models. Specifically, they said it will have a width of around 13.5mm, down from around 20.7mm, and they shared the mockup image above to show what it would look like.

When Apple eliminates the camera and sensor cutout from the display, maybe next year or the year after, what will happen with the dynamic island? My take is that the dynamic island continues to show content popping up from the top of the screen, just like before.