Nova is my second most used app—always open, always close in the cmd-tab switcher. In a sea of clunky Electron software, ugly UIs, and constant nags, it feels like a refuge.

If you're building or playing games on the Mac - your game probably isn't working right out of the box on a notched display. I've written about the issue in AppKit and some options for fixing your game.

I wrote a follow up to my "Microwaves" LLM post expanding on a few points. Expecting this to be my only follow up - I'm planning on taking a break on LLMs (and microwaves) for a bit.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

July update: I added visionOS support to Microsoft's vcpkg C++ dependency manager and completed major feature work on the Mac version of the Cyan's open source game engine. #visionosdev #macdev

Here's my last blog post (for now) on Claude Code and AI coding. Because it's timely - I also wrote about the METR study that found developers were slowed by AI tools.

I wrote about my experiences using LLMs + Claude Code. Both the good and bad. These tools can cut both ways on efficiency. But my biggest concern is I'm worried developers won't know when to put them down. One takeaway I have: devs who use LLMs should have a surface understanding of how they work.

🏆 Friends on @playstation.com: YES! The recent release of classic PS1 Myst and Riven have trophies! Take a peek at a few of our trophy icons—we had fun designing them. 📖

I've published an experimental version of Nvidia PhysX for visionOS to my GitHub. This fork includes several other patches for building the Gameworks version of PhysX on modern Apple platforms.

Deeply disappointed Apple didn't close out their WWDC keynote with "We Are Apple" youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM

Our old apartment building had a few units they rented to movie stars when they were in town filming. I once shared an elevator with Steve Buscemi. Another time it was John Larroquette. I didn't say anything to either. They looked happy to have some quiet time. Especially Steve Buscemi.

20 years today, Steve Jobs gave Stanford grads the speech of all time. He struggled mightily to write it. Here's the inside story about how he did it. www.wired.com/story/how-st...

Hey @bsky.app your iOS tab bar is fake. We knew it already, but now it’s a sore thumb. Can you consider going native, pls?

We'll see how it translates everywhere - but I've really enjoyed using the glass like UI on Vision Pro. It's just really slick and way more polished than the iPad OS theme when running on device.

I'm happy Apple is moving back to more complex materials and animations in UI. For a long time they've been giving ground to cross platform frameworks with less opinionated UI. People used to pursue native frameworks for the richer experience.

Switch 2 is nice. I like the large screen and more comfortable controllers. The limited software selection though has me wondering if this is just a gateway device now to a handheld gaming PC. I keep looking at it like "this would be even better if I could run my PC copy of Baldurs Gate 3...."

Is it correct Xcode still doesn't support Git LFS? It's not bundled, but even if it is installed Xcode seems to ignore it. This means adding files or committing through Xcode can bypass LFS policy (!!!). Would love to be wrong though.

Kind of odd a new build of Fortnite hasn't been published for Mac. Especially in since they didn't even need to go through the App Store for the macOS version.

Stuff I'm working on in May: Spatial Audio rendering in OpenAL Soft, Nvidia PhysX for visionOS, and fixing a few remaining issues on the Metal version of Plasma. #iOSDev #GameDev

I've been working on porting Cyan's Plasma engine - used for titles like RealMyst, Myst V, and Uru - to macOS and Metal. Recently I also ported the engine to iOS. I wrote a blog post about the process - including a taste of a Vision Pro client. #iOSDev #VisionPro#iOS#iOS #Myst