644: You Have to Invert
19 June 2025

644: You Have to Invert

Accidental Tech Podcast

About

    Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro


      Bespoke 3D-printed mount
      Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight

    What betas are we running?


      Virtual Buddy

    𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers


      iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)


        ProcessInfo
        /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist

      Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)


        SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
        null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26


    Liquid Glass


      Adopting Liquid Glass


        Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things

      Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
      Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
      Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)

    macOS Tahoe


      Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
      Squircle Jail


        Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
        Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
        Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)

      Speaking of rounded corners…


        Build an AppKit App with the New Design

      Chonky stoplights


        macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
        -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]

      Missing title bars
      Missing menu bar fixes


        GlassBar
        Boring Old Menu Bar

      Alignment


        Tahoe dialog
        Tahoe dialog, center-icon mockup
        Left-aligned title bar text images

      Finder icon controversy


        Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
        Michael Flarup
        D. Griffin Jones

      Icons next to menu items


        Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
        Today in the HIG

      Tabs contrast


        Terminal tabs

      Safari contrast


        Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari

      Arrow cursor has been updated


        Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
        Hand cursor as well

      Floating elements & compartmentalization


        Screenshot
        We all float down here
        Mario Alberto Guzmán’s observations
        Steve Troughton-Smith’s observations

      Clipboard history


        Stephen Robles
        Overview video

      Future of Rosetta


        Ars Technica

      New disk image format: ASIF


        Howard Oakley write-up


    iOS 26


      UI impressions
      New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)


        Video


    iPadOS 26


      Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)


        Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…

      Slideover is 💀
      UI impressions

    Testing Liquid Glass


      UIDesignRequiresCompatibility

    Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    Post-show: WWDC Favorites


      Apple’s transcription APIs


        John Voorhees’s write-up
        Yap

      Generable
      SwitchGlass

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple snubbed Gruber, so who got the nod?


      Interview roundup on MacRumors
      Joanna Stern


        7-minute excerpt
        Full 24-minute interview

      Mark from Tom’s Guide & Lance from TechRadar



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