I made a complete mess of my shirt but still had a great time having curry with @sangsara.bsky.social today.

I haven’t tried using LLM-based coding agents with UIKit but I did very briefly with AppKit and it was pretty rough. But perhaps there’s something in my process that’s different to the way others do it. I feel like I worked a lot longer on Listless than you typically hear (it’s SwiftUI).

Weeknotes #327

I don't eat fast food that often, but one of my guilty pleasures are Japanese blogs that dissect the latest fast food items, like this article about the Pompompurin Caramel Frappe that includes TWENTY NINE photos of the dessert. mensrecipe.jp/9806/

I wrote an announcement post for my new app, Listless. I explain why I made it and some of how it went.

Listless, my aggressively limited to-do list app for Apple platforms, is now broadly available. I created it as an experiment to see if I could make an app with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex that still felt polished. The app is free.

This video essay is fantastic. I wanted to make a joke about it being his best since the one about trains but it’s so good that I don’t want to risk such a post being interpreted as sarcasm. Just watch it.

I wish the clock on iOS 26 had a ’reduce giganticness’ setting.

I finally reverted Spotlight's keyboard shortcut to Cmd+Space. You win, world.

Weeknotes #326

@nytimes.com Can Crossplay be put in the Japanese App Store? I'd like to play with friends in Australia.

I made us all a daily escape game (“What if Wordle was a maze?”) — it’s called: a maze, a maze, a maze…

Did footnotes on Substack stop working for everyone else, too?

Weeknotes #325

I see Netflix fixed their awful Apple TV scrubbing behaviour. Great job, everyone. We did it.

Easter has no doubt impacted things but the iOS version of Listless has been ready to publish for days and I'm still waiting for the macOS version to even go into review.

Inbox zero!

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Weeknotes #324

The v1.0 of Listless has been submitted to the App Store for review.

Either almost nobody writes in to the Wall Street Journal's China newsletter or Eugene P. Grace must have been a career diplomat at the State Department.

Does the term 'simple majority' imply the existence of a 'complicated majority'? Wrong answers only, please.

I’m glad to see @gruber.foo is as aghast at how bad Netflix’s tvOS video player is as I am. How did this ship?

Weeknotes #323

Being 'forced' by Apple to upgrade to iOS 26 because they artificially gate security fixes on iOS 18.7.3 and up is leaving a pretty sour taste in my mouth.

Weeknotes #322

Few things make me more angry than the persistent belief among some in Japanese politics that Republicans are better for Japan.

I subscribe to two daily news summary e-mails but I've let them both back up. I'm going through them now and am up to mid-February. Am half-wondering if I should always read these messages with a monthlong delay.

It's quite possible this is a me problem but the amount of hackery I've had to do to get my (ostensibly) SwiftUI-based to-do list app to work the way I want on macOS has honestly surprised me. In a bad way.

Weeknotes #321

'Decile' is a word.

SkySpotter: I made an immersive 3D plane-spotting app using live flight and weather data. Vibe coded with Gemini 3 Pro.

I don’t have a modern enough iPhone that can run this but how is Analogue 585MB in size?

Weeknotes #320

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

Dire warning at the supermarket

Anecdata but over the past day, the amount of time Apple is taking to process internal TestFlight builds of my app (these don't have any human review) has increased from near-zero to 5-10 minutes.

I’ve just learnt the term ‘undo toast’ and I think it is delightful.

Defuddle now has a website! This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format. You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

Looking at the newly released M4 iPad Air, I’m feeling really happy about my purchase of a refurbished M2 iPad Air last year. The devices are identical in all the ways I care about.

Weeknotes #319

I did indeed fracture my little toe. Boo.

Weeknotes #318

I am somebody.

I’m not having much luck identifying the lyrics for ‘Supernova’ by the Avener and Axelino.

Weeknotes #317

How about I todon’t, LinkedIn?

I have become an uninterruptible power supply person.

Is there a reason why the @nytimes.com’s Crossplay app is not available in the Japan App Store?

Oh, God. It's 1.40 am and now I'm watching the U.S. play India.