Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of them of the better! Here are some of the changes that stood out to me, as well as a bit more grumbling about Liquid Glass in general (sorry).
When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had initially come away from WWDC 2025 excited about the new Liquid Glass design language, but then became grumpy. The visual effects looked nice to me, but they functioned more poorly than I’d hoped. Well, I’ve finally updated all my devices and I have some feelings.
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job.
Here’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole post. This time about the Canon Cat: a weird little computer from the late 1980s.
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The piece on Liquid Glass is scathing, and excellently summarizes many of my frustrations.
Wikimedia’s 2024 Picture of the Year finalists have been posted, and voting is now open (if you’re an active Wikimedia contributor). As ever, this is a beautiful collection images and photographs.
Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some thoughts about yesterday’s Apple event.
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.