Joe Cieplinski

Protip: If you are looking for the easy way to get those new “Done” buttons in toolbars iOS 26, with the glass checkmark circle that’s tinted to your accent color:

Button(role: .confirm) {
  dismiss()
}
.tint(.accentColor)

Took me way too long to figure that one out.

The close buttons with the X (which should not get tinted) are role: .close. If you tint that, it’ll tint the symbol, not the glass behind it. But you really shouldn’t tint anything in a toolbar except for a primary action anyway.

Oh, and forget setting the foregroundStyle on these buttons. The system will override any foregroundStyle because it attempts to auto-change the style depending on what’s under it. So if your accent color conflicts with whatever color it’s trying to tint the symbol, you’re out of luck.

Long story short: don’t bother playing with glass effects in toolbar buttons. There be dragons. The glass is already there.

Two baby hummingbirds in a nest

I just had a serious back and forth with Claude, having to work to convince it that the current year is actually 2025.

Tell me again how this technology is going to take over the world any day now?

I love that Claude can write me a complex script to scrape a web site for data and format it into JSON, and yet when it comes time to pay them, I still need to manually type in my city, state, and zip code.

Seriously, Silicon Valley. Learn to walk before you run.

Black and white image of stones on a beach

If Apple’s AI for summarizing app reviews were any good, it would convert 99% of them to “I’m a cheap bastard.”

Black and white of a large rock on a beach

Silhouette of a hawk on a tree. Black and White

In case it’s not obvious to more than the morons involved, YOU DO NOT CONDUCT DETAILED MILITARY OPERATIONS PLANNING ON AN IPHONE APP.

Particularly not one where it’s trivial to accidentally invite a rando into the chat thread.

Mind-boggling levels of moron here. I was not aware being this stupid was even possible.

Every time I think I’m getting the hang of this whole programming thing, I find a bug where I’m dividing by zero somewhere.

(Math is hard.)

“Gulf of America” is the new “Freedom Fries.” Fake, flag waiving patriotism at its worst. No one will remember it ten years from now.

Monkey statue facing left with redwood trees and buildings in background.

Trans America pyramid taken from bottom. Clear sky. Black and white.

Apple, pretty please, with a cherry on top, can I swap the Sports tab for a Puzzles tab in the News+ app?

At least I was able to make a Home Screen Shortcut.

Congrats to the Pixelmator team. Well deserved. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.

Stack of Pluots. Black and White

Two tall buildings with fog seeping between them. Black and White.

San Francisco Bay. Thick clouds. Giant industrial cranes.

Balanced Rock. Large boulder. Clear sky. Black and White.

Group of Big Horn Sheep sitting in the long grass. Black and White.

Besr Lake. Mountains in the distance.

Bonneville Salt Flats. Mountains in the distance. Rocks in the foreground.

Light shining through glass ceiling panels with steel beams. Black and White

I will have more to say later when I do a more formal launch, but for those of you who like to make the occasional cocktail (or N/A drink) at home, and want some way to keep track of your recipes, I made a thing.

apple.co/4aO5XbE

iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS native.

(And yes, there will be a Mac version as well. I just don’t think it’s ready yet.)

Sleeping cat on porch. Sign reads "Beware of Cat". Black and White