Zach Waugh
@zachwaugh
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Engineering @ Loom/Atlassian, building @artifacts_app on the side. Previously: @GoRewatch, @37signals
Baltimore, MD
Joined May 2008
I’ve been working on a new app for macOS and iOS called Artifacts, which is an image + link organizer. A completely native, local first way to save all that stuff you find across the web.
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Was reading a bunch of non-Swift code lately, and they often seem better organized to me, but I'm only realizing now that maybe I just find snake_case way more readable instead of Apple's default UpperCamelCase for file names and folders that I've been using for years
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My favorite experience on the Internet is whenever I have an appliance that stops working I find a video someone uploaded to YouTube showing how to fix my exact problem and it’s working again 2 minutes later https://t.co/a1xfoUusgL
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I had the same realization lately as I’ve been trying to level up on guitar and consuming a lot of YouTube content that is really well made, but not actually helping me improve at all. Two weeks ago, I started taking in person lessons, and it’s a dramatic improvement.
there's an epidemic of fake learning. duolingo, tiktok, youtube. it's all entertainment cleverly disguised as education. real learning is hard. it's uncomfortable. if it feels 'fun', you probably aren't learning anything.
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iOS is also looking pretty 🔥 with Liquid Glass @artifacts_app. We've got collections, tags, multi-select, a fresh new link preview UI, one of the nicer share extensions I've seen 👀 Coming soon!
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We'd love to use the X API for @artifacts_app to read bookmarks and get data for posts shared to Artifacts, will have to see if this makes it feasible now economically
Announcing our beta launch: X API pay-per-use model. We are expanding a closed beta to both new & power users who want to ship amazing apps on X. All selected users will receive a $500 voucher to build with the X API. 🤑💻🚀
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I think there should be some way to own a domain for life. I have a defunct project I don’t want to do anything with, but I also don’t want to let someone else use. I’d like to just preserve it
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I honestly thought they took away portrait mode in iOS 26 and it was just something that happened automatically because I couldn’t figure out how to get to it Had to google how to do it because I didn’t realize the video/photo control was scrollable. Am I the only one?
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Enid’s SwiftUI illustrations are fantastic, I’ve discovered more about APIs I didn’t know and how to use them from these posts than Apple’s docs
SwiftUI Tip 🚀 In iOS 26, use labelReservedIconWidth() to reserve a fixed width for icons in labels. This keeps text neatly aligned — even when icons vary in size. → https://t.co/9Y6UBy3p0b
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Clearing a notification badge continues to be the hardest problem in computer science. I can't believe how much I fight with Slack about this on a daily basis
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Haven't seen anything about this, but Arc can now auto-fill verification codes from Messages like Safari. Assuming this is is a new Tahoe feature?
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Building a gas station on top of a pet cemetery would actually make for a really good Shaun of the Dead style horror comedy
Howard County planners reject Sheetz development on historic pet cemetery
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What's a good newsletter/email service for sending simple email updates out ~once a month? I don't need anything fancy, just plain text or markdown is fine. I'm using @buttondown now and like everything about it, but just way too expensive ($29/mo) for my current needs
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I think Ghostty is my favorite project right now. Nothing better than seeing someone make something they want to see in the world with a high bar for quality and give it away
Ghostty 1.2 is now out! macOS Tahoe support, command palette, graphical progress bars, custom cursor shaders, background images, quick terminal on Linux, global keybinds on Linux, localization to two dozen locales on Linux, and hundreds more changes.
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I have to admit I like it more than I thought I would, liquid glass feels pretty nice on a content heavy app like @artifacts_app
Back from a bit of a summer break and getting Artifacts ready for Liquid Glass!
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Using iOS 26 on my main device, I think I can now see the ideal state of liquid glass. This is a Safari view controller within X, feels like the entire screen is just the content with no chrome. Buttons are available, but don’t stand out.
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From everything I've seen and played with myself related to liquid glass, the whole thing just feels like a huge waste of time. How many design and engineering years were spent on this just to be so buggy and not really improve anything for anyone?
Damn - this nasty visual effect view corner radius bug is back in beta 5!
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Choosing my terminal now based on what has better Claude Code support
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My fatal flaw is whenever I slowly hit a few keys on the piano I'm pretty sure I'm close to creating the next "The Social Network" soundtrack
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TIL that CloudKit has a limit of 750 references with a `deleteSelf` action. Already have users hitting that limit in @artifacts_app, so will need to manage that myself now, which is annoying https://t.co/FCjevdjmdq
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