Nice to see that the skill of people like @lmnt.me still gets recognized while most are on a very different design path currently.

Basic Apple Guy@basicappleguy.com · 3d ago

Whimsical DMG screens are a dying art. Bless the designers who still make them.

Found a place for the barber pole progress bar! @marioguzman.bsky.social

Somehow I forgot to introduce Billy version 1.1 here! It’s out of beta since last week with some highly requested features like multi-page invoices, markdown formatting, and support for the US Letter format. #indiedev #macos #BuildInPublic

@usebilly.app is now also available for download via Homebrew!

Since when is Apple faster to approve production builds than a TestFlight builds? I even added the TestFlight one a little earlier. So I guess my new motto for the Beta is: Get the updates extra late!

We got featured! Thank you so much @lucas.love for the kind words. It’s great having you as such an invested user!

Lucas ✦@lucas.love · 3w ago

There are over 100 apps on #Amore now. I made a video about 5 great ones today. lucas.love/100/045

Good interview! I’m always a fan of @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, but I like that it’s a little bit more in-depth—down to some technical details. youtu.be/aMNWOqXpxcc

AI’s Threat to Privacy - Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the Risks of Agents

YouTube video by Nicholas Thompson

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It’s Christmas! Thank you so much @marioguzman.bsky.social—that’s so sweet of you. <3

A lot of people still write their invoices in Pages, or even InDesign—so did I. Most accounting tools out there are web-based, expensive, and keep your data hostage. Pages works, but was never meant for this, and that makes it easy to mess simple things up. #indiedev #macos #BuildInPublic

Very grateful to see my app @usebilly.app featured in the Piccalilli newsletter. Thanks, @bell.bz!

Piccalilli@piccalil.li · last mo.

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #188! Brought to you by our very good pals, ffconf! piccalil.li/the-index/188/

We are live! I’m really happy to tell you that Billy is now available for download in the Mac App Store and directly from my website. usebilly.app/download apps.apple.com/app/billy-in... #indiedev #macos #BuildInPublic

When the circular toolbar buttons are not concentric anymore with the window corner anyway, why can’t we have rounded rectangular buttons back? Like this, it’s much less space-efficient and looks worse. Isn’t a rectangle just the superior shape for a button? #macos #macos27

Yay, Apple wants us! I guess the launch will happen tomorrow then!

Your friendly neighborhood invoice manager has arrived! Beta access is now open! testflight.apple.com/join/aCCf242f

I’ve been working on my first Mac app for a while now, and it’s finally coming out next week. It’s an invoicing app for freelancers called “Billy”—creating, managing, and customizing e-invoices. Everything done locally and natively. #indiedev #macosdev #buildinpublic

Why did I think @bradfrost.com would speak about design or development or so? Anyway, I guess I was wrong.

I stumbled upon this very elegant way of gender-neutralizing words in German using a version of an asterisk which fills the whole x-height. It would be fantastic if type designers would begin incorporating such a glyph into their fonts.

Gemeinsam mit Publix und @algorithmwatch.org laden wir ein zum Gespräch mit @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, Präsidentin des Messengers Signal, über die Frage, wie wir Technologie wieder stärker an menschlichen Bedürfnissen ausrichten können – vor allem beim Schutz unserer Privatsphäre. ➡️ t.ly/lIzA3

Always nice to read.

I kind of like the new cursor.

a few well-chosen typos relaly make your prose seem like it wasn't written by AI

I don’t know, but the corner radius feels just wrong. #wwdc25 #macos26

Welcome I guess #wwdc25 #macos26

Looks like we were ahead of the clear icon curve all the way back in 2006! 😉 #WWDC https://freeware.iconfactory.com/preview/clbk

This is a stunning collection of ephemeral print for every day stuff. Y’know, tickets, flyers and labels. The typography, the creative and the history is fascinating. letterformarchive.org/ephemera/

Ephemera

Letterform Archive’s collection of ephemera aims to outlast its impermanent nature and provide endless design inspiration.

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We’d like to thank our good friends at Apple for nominating our Panic-published game, Thank Goodness You’re Here!, for a “Delight and Fun” 2025 Apple Design Award!! Amazing. Many thanks to everyone who played it, and to Coal Supper for making it. thankgoodness.game

“An Apple VP told me: The most popular text box on all of macOS is Chrome’s URL bar.” Haha, I can’t!

A wonderful read from @lmnt.me that shows the world a little differently than most. lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...

The Dystopian Dream Team

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📣 The rush to add AI into everything is a big threat to privacy, as we've been saying. MS Recall's screenshotting everything is a (not) great example of exactly why. So, Signal took steps to protect everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's privacy invasion.👇 signal.org/blog/signal-...

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...

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