The article criticizes the declining quality of macOS app icon design, arguing that Apple's push toward uniform squircle shapes and simplified aesthetics has made modern icons look worse than older, more distinctive designs. It notes that even third-party developers are constrained by Apple's rules, while a few apps like BBEdit and Fantastical still maintain strong icon identities.
A developer reverse-engineered Apple's video wallpapers, creating an open-source project called Phosphene that allows users to extract and repurpose these high-quality video backgrounds from Apple devices.
The article criticizes recent macOS icon design, arguing that Apple's current direction—with overly simplified, generic, or skeuomorphically inconsistent icons—has lost the clarity, personality, and visual integrity of classic macOS icons, resulting in a degraded user experience.
The article details how the author reverse-engineered SkyCards, a flight-spotting game, by intercepting its API to extract and verify the actual flight data used by the app, revealing discrepancies between the game's displayed information and real-world aircraft positions.
A user reports that Mac-to-Android texting may have stopped working after macOS 26.5, and asks other Mac users if they have experienced similar issues.