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Organizationally, Apple have definitely stuffed the Mac. Catalyst was a mistake and with hindsight they should have just made SwiftUI more capable, earlier. But now they’re focusing on building Android apps with it too?! To say nothing of locker service etc.

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How many have used the new iOS daily since it was announced?

Gentle reminder that the average Mac user is nontechnical, especially the younger generation. IMO this is Apple slapping a formalized paint on the simplification of iOS 7, and doubling down on iconography (not app icons).

Now all of that said — there are major usability concerns in iOS 26 and the liquid glass design language. The file picker’s previous “Done” has been replaced with a single checkmark. Significant meaning is lost in a few places, and there are super-odd double-X icons (in mobile safari while entering a URL, for example). Safari’s new tab button is now out of reach, while the previous new tab gesture is now new tab group. Context menus expand now, instead of swipe, meaning what used to feel more natural now takes extra taps/muscle memory updates.

That all said, as iOS 7 improved over time and was nailed down, so will this.

To me it’s given the iPhone - an incredibly boring platform/device 18 years in - new life. The new Lock Screen Photo Shuffle is incredibly personable and downright beautiful. From my understanding, a lot of work went into pre-composing app icons, many of which are objectively beautiful.

I’ve found users can’t find buttons “under the thumb” so I’m curious how the dedicated tab bar search will work in practice.

Overall I think for the goals of liquid glass as a design system, it’s something only Apple could do - in a good way.

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Svelte 5 reimagines the reactivity features (“runes”) and gets rid of the foot-guns, I know exactly what you’re referring to with state management. V5 is much more straightforward to both reason about and bug fix.

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That’s so funny — my social network[1] was paid, too! People hated that shit but — this was when Twitter had just started dying. Maybe there’s more appetite for sustainable alternatives now. I certainly see lots of projects in process on TikTok.

“The tyranny of react” is spot on. React single-handedly killed my passion for web development, but Svelte brought me back.

Good luck!

1. https://pocketrides.com

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gave me k10k vibes

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This is exactly why I read HN! So cool. And a fellow Svelte lover. 10/10.

Good luck with the social network! It’s brutal out there..

PS — would be so cool to see a tailwind plugin of this (which in v4 should be just copying the vars in.. I didn’t look at the repo super closely). Great shit!

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linking Curtis Yarvin[1] on a thread discussing a nazi salute is really something.

1. https://youtu.be/mYrPNvVhKLU

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The case for this not being flagged: this is an intellectually curious forum and the mods have a proven ability to adequately moderate other contentious threads and allow politically-charged posts.

If what Pres. Biden said about a growing oligarchy holds true, more posts like this should be expected in the future (especially given the attendees from the tech sector at today’s inauguration), and it’s far better to have a trustworthy place to discuss these types of stories, given HN’s readership, than places like BlueSky or Reddit (read: content optimized for algorithms); the amount of intellect here could lead to positive outcomes. Additionally, given the amount of industrywide impact the actions of CEOs have, and a large percentage of us are founders, it would be more valuable than not to have the discussion.

So to the mods: please consider updating the site’s ToS to allow posts and discussions like this. It’s valuable to have these discussions, and quasi-favoritism like allowing pg’s DEI screed while flagging this, shows clear editorial bias.

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I handled the “real human” problem by charging access to the platform (and doing something socially responsible with the profits). Saw recently that X is starting to do this for signups, which feels icky (and likely explains why my idea didn’t take off).

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Jesus.

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This is just so good. Congrats!

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