Marcel Weiher: So Tahoe apparently has a new Contacts app.Unusably slow.So slow that you think it has crashed.Why am I not surprised that otool -L shows a SwiftUI dependency?[…]Oh, and it flickers and has visual glitches.Not just when scrolling, also when just sitting there. It really is incredibly slow, especially resizing the window, even on […]

Matt Massicotte (Mastodon): Swift 6.2 gives you the ability make MainActor the default isolation. Unlike the rest of the features introduced as part of “Approachable Concurrency”, this is a long-term mode. It is optional and will remain so. However, this mode is enabled for new app targets in Xcode 26. And many people take this […]

Robert Hart and Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors): Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups — and relaxing or delaying landmark AI rules in an effort to cut red tape and revive sluggish […]

Freddie Harrison (Mastodon, Pieter Omvlee): Early on in the process, we prototyped various approaches to the sidebar and Inspector, including floating options (the new default in Tahoe) and glass materials. Ultimately, we went custom here, with fixed sidebars that felt less distracting in the context of a canvas-based design tool. Another area we went custom […]

Eugen Rochko (via Hacker News): After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myself less and less in our outward communications, and to some degree, […]