well, ok then

New in Hello Weather this week—Liquid Glass support for iOS 26, plus a bunch of related improvements! Hop over to the App Store to grab it: apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...

New on the @figma.com blog – I wrote about building resilient design teams, especially in times of constant macro change and instability. Sharing some tips here around team health and culture, craft, scaling with intention…and having fun together while you’re at it: www.figma.com/blog/how-to-...

144 available pixels, dozens of stakeholders, a handful of icons. My definition of a good time. figma.com/blog/the-mak...

First summer garden sunflower 🌻

One of my long term goals in running an indie software project is to directly support other independent creators. For the new Hello Weather, we hired freelancers to help us (like the legendary @matthewskiles.com), and we’re sponsoring a handful of indie publications: 512pixels.net/2025/07/spon...

What's your least favorite corporate jargon? I dislike all of it, but using "asks" and "solves" as nouns is a special kind of terrible

being forced to embrace Liquid Glass as an iOS app developer

I was not expecting to feel a kinship with Donkey Kong, but as it turns out, both of our realities are completely bananas

Someone should create a web browser feature to automatically choose the least possible cookie tracking on any given website. (Who ever wants *more* tracking? This doesn't need to be an explicit choice)

one of my favorite life experiences is being late to a meeting, but still being earlier than all the other participants

The all new Hello Weather is finally here! We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it. apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...

been thinking about the original Liquid Glass youtu.be/hObxaCAsQ7M?...

we put a small homage to Mac OS 8 into the new Hello Weather, and I really hope Apple is cool with it, because I love it so much

we’re finally launching our mega update to @helloweather.com! Click this link to get notified when it’s released on June 30: apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...

trying out a new approach for visualizing all the little stuff I do as a manager

Shipping a product is so tough. You’d think it’d get easier with a lot of experience, but no. Your standards and ambition just get a little higher every time

These ultra-translucent interfaces rarely work well as a system, because the transparency introduces way more problems than it solves. It’s form over function. I’d bet that a lot of this liquid glass stuff will end up more like semi-opaque-frosted-glass in the end. But it looks cool as a demo!

It’s counterintuitively great to see a bunch of “Bluesky is dead” hot takes, because that means Bluesky is *not* dead, and it’s thriving enough to warrant continued attention

Just getting caught up on the day's events, and I'm not surprised to learn that the least surprising outcome of all time finally occurred in an unsurprising manner

took a week off starting today. should I… - finally ship the new version of @helloweather.com - do a bunch of deferred home rehab projects - take a little road trip - do nothing and stare at the sky for a week …they all sound equally necessary!

a proper #caturday mood

took a few weeks away from here to decide whether I still wanted a microblogging website in my life conclusion: no but yeah

one of the many things I love about Chicago is that it's the funniest city

Yo #designsky – who’s going to be at Config next week? We could meet under the actual blue sky

I had this piece published a year ago about the time I worked with Prince, and am sharing it again today. It never gets less surreal that I got to do this, or that he's gone. 💜☔ www.pastemagazine.com/music/prince...

Every day working as a designer: obsessively solving twisty puzzles Every day away from work: obsessively thinking about the twisty puzzles you didn’t solve yet

Fare thee well, lil cakes

regular people: you should have onboarding in your app my nonsense brain:

well, that was a very cool* week *not cool

Banks: ignore the crashing stock market. don't forget your long term financial goals Bros on Twitter: you don't need to buy expensive things Congress: you don't need gov't programs Media: in times of austerity, cook at home and pinch pennies Reason any of this is happening: a rich guy likes it

A reminder youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?...

well, I guess we’re in phase 2 of a definitely smart economic plan

yeah maybe AI can replicate creative work, but it just doesn’t hit the same without the weary self doubt and nervous existential dread of a real human artist

another amazing launch from my team at Figma! (they”re the best) go forth and add notes and measurements to your designs:

when a private company you own “acquires” another private company you own, and you just make up a bunch of fantasy valuations, in order to make it all look legitimate

Looove this update—we had a lot of fun working on this one! Hope y'all dig it and find it useful ☯️

drawing with computers over the years: 1980: no one has computers 1985: you can draw black and white lines 1990: you can draw vectors 1995: you have 256 colors 2010: you can draw on your phone 2020: everyone can draw with you in real time 2025: the computer will draw it for you

The hardest problem in icon design is communicating “lack of a thing” for example: an icon that conveys “it’s not raining”

I guess now we all have a handy reference example for something that’s worse than the worst thing we’ve ever done in a group chat

sometimes I wonder what digital interfaces would look like if they degraded from usage, like physical interfaces do. for example: imagine how many millions of times the Home button in this app is tapped every single day. It would look like this:

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

I don’t usually like stuff I designed (I only see the flaws in it) but I like this one.

Threads also never really developed a unique culture, a point of view, or any particular community sensibility. It always felt weirdly artificial over there. I quit the app after the election and promptly forgot it even existed!

Nabbed a couple of excellent finds at the record store today

from 2020-2022 it seemed as if crypto and NFTs would become the most obnoxiously hyped tech things of all time, but then AI showed up like

Pro tip: follow cool people on here, and set your default feed to Mutuals. This will ease the continual anxiety of landing in Discover, and immediately seeing all the bad things happening that are indeed very bad

attempting to click the infinitesimally small close button on a website popup ad without clicking the actual ad

We don't need to automate the best parts of being human. Some things are meant to be slow. Some things are meant to be clumsy. That's the point.