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iOS, Swift and Elixir developer, indie software creator and toddler dad in Portland, OR. 📱 yearofcode.com/steps 🌐 philkast.com
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Playing with glass effects on type, like the iOS 26 Lock Screen clock.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 move the 🕯 🕯 new tab button 🕯 🕯 back to the bottom 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hey ☁️ #cloudnative ☁️friends!! ✨ big news from Apple today ✨ Want a native way to build Linux containers on Apple hardware? Now you can ✅ — check out the new open source #containerization framework: 👏 github.com/apple/contai... 👏 github.com/apple/contai... Fun fact: it’s written in @swift.org 🙌

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I’m playing with the iOS 26 beta now. The thing that jumps out (that wasn’t apparent in the keynote) is it is BOUNCY.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Chan Karunamuni... congratulations.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Minutes from a rumored Apple re-design, I'm thinking about the Family post again. This kind of obsessive attention to making a UI 'make sense' has never been automated and probably can never be. But it's so great, it's how the best stuff gets made.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, RIP. He truly was a “we lived when giants walked the earth” figure of computing. I can’t imagine how different my life would be without QuickDraw or HyperCard.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My WWDC wish list: Accepting an autocomplete in Xcode doesn't delete the token in front of the cursor if there's no space. Am I supposed to want more? I don't care -- I trip over this every day, it's an incredibly irritating tic for an editor, and there's no way to turn it off.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

When someone who runs a payment platform says this, you should probably listen to them.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Apple Design Awards out early this year. Congrats to the winners!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This really closely matches my experience with LLMs. Impossible to argue they aren't useful. "Is this good for society" is a separate question, and quite different for coding vs creative writing vs visual arts. But for coding especially, they are really useful if you hold them right.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm still really rooting for them. But fly.io managed postgres is not a serious service.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Working on some SwiftUI elements for a new project today. Stretchy progress bar:

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Uh techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty wild that in the last few months we’ve gotten a partial cure for pancreatic cancer, personalized CRISPR that works (!), and have substantially defunded American scientific research www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments