links.robb.is

Deeper dive: Were Touch Bar’s problems software rather than hardware?

unsung.aresluna.org

I don't miss the tab bar but seeing the emoji picker did hit me with a bit of nostalgia

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

linebender.org

Really nice, can't wait to play around with this

Played a few rounds multiplayer of STS2 over the last couple of evenings, we're on Ascension 5 so far

very fun, great multiplayer game you shouldn’t miss

『攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL』ノンクレジットエンディング映像｜「Blue」MILLENNIUM PARADE

youtube.com

So good

Love the expressive animation and everything being so expressive

E05 especially

GitHub Pages proved too unreliable

🙄

moved the linkblog to AWS instead

Honored to have made it

Urbanliner steht in den Startlöchern

bvg.de

Rode the new Urbanliner today

No onboard ticket machine and the official solution being “Just walk to the nearest ticket shop” is an accessibility shit show

otherwise quite nice

paperlesspaper – Digitale Bilder. Analoge Ästhetik

paperlesspaper.de

Ordered one, been wanting a little unobtrusive todo list/calendar on my desk for a while.

Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984)

youtube.com

And here’s a Soviet-era adaptation

(tho they changed the date)

Ray Bradbury – There Will Come Soft Rains, read by Leonard Nimoy

archive.org

“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”

GitHub - tanukifont/Coral-Pixels · GitHub

github.com

A font with the artifacts of sub-pixel rendering baked in,

Eno was right.

Angle Ref. Search

angleref.com

we need more skull-based UI

twenty years.

monome.org

monome at 20

dang, time flies

I added support for half-stars using a patched Noto font

Too bad font support for this glyph (U+2BEA) is still so bad, 11 years in.

⯪☆☆☆☆

Very pretty point and click adventure

unfortunately quite short and light on puzzles

★★★⯪☆

Berkeley Mono

usgraphics.com

My monospace font of choice

Desktop Explorer on Steam

store.steampowered.com

case in point

Also, what a time for detective games!

Great voice acting and gorgeous art

I liked Tangle Tower a little better though

★★★★⯪

Amazing detective game with some great twists

★★★★★

The Incident at Galley House on Steam

store.steampowered.com

New game by the Roottree folks released today

SwiftUI Text Selection Still Isn’t Good Enough

robb.is

Alas, the new SwiftUI text selection solves none of our problems :/

CLI for Steam I just learned about

Niche but allows you to download Windows games on macOS to chuck them into ScummVM and such

List of non-standard dates

en.wikipedia.org

30th of February!

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero

youtube.com

RIP

defaults write -g NS­Convolution­Override1 -bool YES

defaults write -g NS­Split­View­Item­Glass­Minimum­Corner­Radius -int 12

defaults write -g NS­Split­View­Item­Sidebar­Defaults­To­Floating­Appearance -bool false

U.V.S. Nirmana on Steam

store.steampowered.com

definitely scratches the zach-like the itch

I find the theme pretty uninspired though

★★★☆☆

The Mermaid Mask on Steam

store.steampowered.com

I’m hyped – loved all the previous games in the series

Dynamic Text in SwiftUI

robb.is

Wrote a few lines on how to make SwiftUI Text dynamic to respond to user preferences

Rulette 2 - Season 8

watch.dropout.tv

Who doesn’t love a good Game Samer?

Catechesis on Steam

store.steampowered.com

My kind of bullshit

Dive into lazy stacks and scrolling with SwiftUI - WWDC26

developer.apple.com

Great session by Rens on lazy stacks <3

Compose advanced graphics effects with SwiftUI - WWDC26

developer.apple.com

Haotian explains more of SwiftUI’s powerful graphics APIs

(yours truly makes a cameo in the transcript)

Code-along: Build powerful drag and drop in SwiftUI - WWDC26

developer.apple.com

Jack’s session on the new .reorderable() modifier

Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit - WWDC26

developer.apple.com

David on new ways to integrate SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit

Europe’s first Apple Developer Center to open in Berlin - Apple (UK)

apple.com

Curious what’s going to come out of this

Iron Lung (film)

en.wikipedia.org

My kind of bullshit

★★★★★

TIL

TIL you can hire a vintage tram to ride around Berlin

Soo good!

Mina the Hollower on Steam

store.steampowered.com

I’m hyped

Initial reviews are v positive, huge relief given that this seemed like a make or break moment for Yacht Club

i’m going off the map

youtube.com

He’s back!

The Archives of Trevosa

jamwitch.itch.io

Cute lil Roottree-like

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes

webkit.org

The grid view now uses a masonry layout if your Safari is recent enough

Studio Display XDR

apple.com

💸💸💸

WhatCable Pro - Deep USB-C Diagnostics for Mac

whatcable.uk

Handy app to read out the features of your identical looking USB-C cables

There’s an free, open source version, too

@scope CSS at-rule - CSS | MDN

developer.mozilla.org

TIL

A Colder War

en.wikipedia.org

Remains my all time favorite mythos story

Conclave (film)

en.wikipedia.org

Beautiful photography, great set design & fun twist

★★★★☆

Beyond The Plastic Wall on Steam

store.steampowered.com

Another game I liked at A MAZE.

A Technical Deep Dive Into the New Raycast - Raycast Blog

raycast.com

Raycast is ditching their native stack to go cross platform

Recognition - Community

developer.apple.com

good to see finally some recognition for folks like Chris

Fontspots: Eurostile

typesetinthefuture.com

The other day, I spotted Eurostile Bold on a radiator dial while waiting at the doctor’s

v futuristic

Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software

typewritten.org

Hadn’t seen most of these

I especially ove these sand-colored windows on the storm blue background in the screenshot,

that’s DECWindows Motif apparrently

Fit Arabic | 10 widths of interlocking, puzzle-like geometry

dograytype.com

fuck yes

GitHub - k4zmu2a/Space­Cadet­Pinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet · GitHub

github.com

Cross platform Space Cadet Pinball

Make a Damn Website

lmnt.me

Make a damn website

Interesting that Firefox chose the SDF approach here

Produces a lot better results for the Love example in particular

CSS anchor positioning - CSS | MDN

developer.mozilla.org

Also, CSS anchor positioning is really cool

This site now supports likes courtesy of

the dead-simple emoji reaction protocol

Ten Years of Frinkiac: A Few Months of Modernization with AI

langui.sh

Frinkiac – the premiere Simpsons gif generator – got some impressive UI updates for its 10th anniversary

“The reading experience on your site is much better – that’s why nobody should use RSS readers”

Shadow Acne

digitalrune.github.io

learned a new word today

SUPER ZSNES - SNES Emulator

zsnes.com

Didn’t expect this to be written in Unity

The feature set looks pretty cool, wide screen mode especially

映画『８番出口』

exit8-movie.toho.co.jp

Captures the game well but not creepy enough for my taste

★★★☆☆

Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor

mockdown.design

love the brush tool

Code search results · GitHub

github.com

Some interesting documents from the NBA Jam repo.

Odd to think Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was a standout title at CES to them along with Mario Paint

The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts

youtube.com

cute watch face

We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

photon.codes

Windows had one, Gnome had one – it’s just par for the course

feat: add accessibility­Display­Should­Differentiate­Without­Color on macOS by robb · Pull Request #49912 · electron/electron · GitHub

github.com

I’m an electron contributor now ;)

Seems really useful for SDFs

Gewgawly I - Endless Eve

gewgawlyi.bandcamp.com

Happy Birthday, Norco!

https://aresluna.org/fn/

aresluna.org

Another banger by Marcin Wichary

To prepare for Mina the Hollower, I finally played Oracle of Seasons.

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (2001)

mobygames.com

Seasons was good but I remember liking Oracle of Ages better (which I’m replaying next).

★★★★☆

(graded on a Zelda curve)

I’m currently replaying some GameBoy titles and came across this rom hack that turns Mega Man V into a GameBoy Color game.

Mega Man World 5 DX teaser trailer (Game Boy Color hack)

youtube.com

It’s one of my favorites in the series and his hack matches the style of the DX remasters perfectly.

★★★★★

The Legend of Zelda Link’s Awakening German Strategy Guide : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

I loved this guide as a kid, didn’t realize that some of this art was only ever published in the German walkthrough.

This ended up being just the right amount of pulpy fan service.

★★★★☆

Phone Connection ‘Mobile Golf’ Game Boy Color

videogameartarchive.com

Oh, to be a Japanese salaryman in 2001, commuting to work and playing Mobile Golf online via a flip phone.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

theshamblog.com

I find this entire episode extremely depressing

Not sure I would bother with Open Source work again…

Anti-Birth Items: What Made It To Afterbirth?

shunchild.com

An AI generated spam blog for moms summarizes the latest Binding of Isaac DLC.

The comet can’t come soon enough.

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

github.blog

GitHub allowing users to turn off Pull Requests says a lot about the current state of Open Source development.

Tiger Inspirat

keiransell.com

I missed these when they came out, so nice!

Mac Themes Garden | Midnight Butterfly

macthemes.garden

Sure, this is one of the more unhinged themes but someone somewhere out there appreciated it unironically.

Sad how deeply unpersonal computing has become.

The Dark Rites of Arkham by Postmodern Adventures

postmodernadventures.itch.io

There’s no official macOS version but I downloaded the Windows installer from itch.io and the ags file plays in ScummVM just fine.

GitHub - c-ehrlich/micropolis

github.com

The original SimCity ported from C to TypeScript using automated verification and GPT-5.3-Codex

At least I made sure the fade-in animation on my site does not replay on reload

😬

Death to Scroll Fade! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

dbushell.com

too real

Short and sweet. The story picks up the current LLM discourse and adds a dash of Lovecraftian forbidden knowledge.

Lore:Cheesemancy - UESP Wiki - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages

en.uesp.net

Why mong when you can mance?

How to shoot a screen using a board of keys

unsung.aresluna.org

40 years of ⌘⇧3

This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.

The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can’t Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails

aftermath.site

At least affordable RAM is still an option at *checks notes* … Apple

Operator Plays A Little Pingpong

terrytaylor.bandcamp.com

One of my favorite soundtracks of any video game, so many weird lil tunes

Bloop, aka, writing for chat

anhvn.com

Anh’s website was a major inspiration for the aesthetic of this site.

Apropos apropos: love the design of the Amalgam enemy in QBJ3 – the intersection of brutalism and body horror is definitely relevant to my interests.

Radiator Blog: new Quake map: "One Need Not Be A House" for Quake Brutalist Jam 3

blog.radiator.debacle.us

Apropos of the previous post: Some notes by Robert Yang on his contribution to Quake Brutalism Jam 3, “One Need Not Be A House”, inspired by the architecture of Louis Kahn.

QUAKE BRUTALIST JAM III - Release Trailer

youtube.com

Of course real monsters prefer neoclassical architecture.

Neon Deutschland (@neondeutschland.bsky.social)

bsky.app

Finder’s cool uncle

Lars: "Always really liked the instrument icons in Logic…"

mastodon.design

Never realized the 909 is the real deal, Roland logo and all – wonder what the story is there.

The Heavenly States - Berlin Wall

youtube.com

from the robb.is archives

Bonsplit - Native macOS Tab Bar with Split Panes for SwiftUI

bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com

Very cute site – the library looks great, too.

Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We’ll Never Get Over Losing

ikennd.ac

Killing Apterture was 100% Apple's Google Reader moment

Dishonored 2 Devs Explain the Clockwork Mansion

youtube.com

Level with me for a second

Dogpile

dogpilegame.com

Love the poodle sprite so much

BasicAppleGuy: "Apple Creator Studio Icon History"

mastodon.social

🫠

Think diff – Introducing Linear Reviews

linear.app

Exciting stuff.

This last rule is awesome. Over the years, I have had a lot of fun with traditional folkloric clothing from different countries, students in pajamas, a banana and this year’s champion, my Studentausorus Rex!

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

ploum.net

Probably the most optimistic piece on education that I’ve read in a while.