Phil Z
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Software-as-Art | Rearranging pixels on your screen | Founding Engineer @SoftwareAppsInc | Previously macOS UI / AppKit @Apple | @gtcomputing
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2017
both AppKit and UIKit now have built-in support for Swift Observable types, with automatic change tracking. even better, this can be back-deployed to macOS 15 and iOS 18. even more powerful combined with transactional observation in Swift 6.2.
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love seeing the SwiftUI additions to visionOS this year like object manipulation and better RealityKit interop.
Thrilled to share the feature we’ve been working on this year — object manipulation! Can’t wait to see all the amazing ways it’ll be used in apps. #WWDC25 . To learn how to add interactive manipulation to you app, check out this talk
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very excited to share what i've been working on since 2023. as an uncompromisingly native Mac app, @skybysoftware is going to set the standard for user experience and software quality. it's a great day to be a Mac nerd.
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perhaps viewing software as an art form more so than an engineering discipline is a path towards building products that delight, inspire, and uplift. (the photo below is of Fold 2, an inspiring digital artwork by Samia Halaby, taken by me at Tate Modern.)
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on visionOS 2.4, every SwiftUI document-based app has gnarly visual artifacts due to the duplication of the root SwiftUI view hierarchy. even happens when using the Xcode template. a bad regression but the visuals are kinda fun!. wrote a bit more on this:
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for my next adventure, i've joined @SoftwareAppsInc as a Founding Engineer. excited to build great software applications and bring AI to the desktop!.
Last day at Apple🍎 today. It's been a once in a lifetime journey! Excited for what's next.
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Last day at Apple🍎 today. It's been a once in a lifetime journey! Excited for what's next.
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excited about shipping this 🎉 . for all the macOS devs out there, we've also added new activate / yield API that makes expressing your activation intent much easier. this is available if you're using SwiftUI or AppKit.
macOS 14 has a new cooperative app activation system, aka fix-bad-electron-apps-behavior-especially-slack-and-discord. No more low-quality apps stealing focus 🎉.
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and a lot of this is automatic, so you get the improvements just by installing macOS Sonoma. we also support more complex use cases with new activate and yield API!.
Apps can no longer steal focus while you’re typing? 100% the best QoL update in macOS this year. ❤️
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we take our "Carbon neutral by 2030" goal seriously ✅.
“Menus have been rewritten to fully use Cocoa, this reduces AppKit’s _Carbon_ footprint. ” 💀
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ok getting rid of all the bloated sidebars and upsells using @browsercompany arc is amazing, but changing every website’s font to SF Pro is the true killer feature
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