Fabien Marry
@fabienmarry.bsky.social
Earther. Dad^2. Husband. French guy in London talking about UX, design, apps, tech, with a side of politics and climate catastrophe warning.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Me: spend years hoping work would let us install the current macOS release.
Monkeypaw: uncurls...
Work: OK.
Apple: releases Tahoe with #liquidAss
Monkeypaw: uncurls...
Work: OK.
Apple: releases Tahoe with #liquidAss
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Me: spend years hoping work would let us install the current macOS release.
Monkeypaw: uncurls...
Work: OK.
Apple: releases Tahoe with #liquidAss
Monkeypaw: uncurls...
Work: OK.
Apple: releases Tahoe with #liquidAss
Apple has published a page with the best third party #liquidGlass apps.
developer.apple.com/design/ne...
Despite biasing the compare (static for iOS 18, animated for iOS 26), I can't say any of the after are actually better, and many had to employ hack to be not completely awful.
developer.apple.com/design/ne...
Despite biasing the compare (static for iOS 18, animated for iOS 26), I can't say any of the after are actually better, and many had to employ hack to be not completely awful.
Discover how apps are using the new design and Liquid Glass - Design - Apple Developer
Discover how leading apps are embracing Liquid Glass to create immersive, dynamic experiences that feel natural and responsive across Apple platforms.
developer.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Apple has published a page with the best third party #liquidGlass apps.
developer.apple.com/design/ne...
Despite biasing the compare (static for iOS 18, animated for iOS 26), I can't say any of the after are actually better, and many had to employ hack to be not completely awful.
developer.apple.com/design/ne...
Despite biasing the compare (static for iOS 18, animated for iOS 26), I can't say any of the after are actually better, and many had to employ hack to be not completely awful.
Did @panic really use Zelda's Trifoce as the icon for the LINKed files feature?
Not sure that's great UI, but definitely makes me smile!
Not sure that's great UI, but definitely makes me smile!
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Did @panic really use Zelda's Trifoce as the icon for the LINKed files feature?
Not sure that's great UI, but definitely makes me smile!
Not sure that's great UI, but definitely makes me smile!
Should have been obvious agile became a (cargo) cult when they started calling meetings "ceremonies"…
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Should have been obvious agile became a (cargo) cult when they started calling meetings "ceremonies"…
Scariest thing by far while trick or treating?
Almost all houses had Ring camera doorbell.
Almost all houses had Ring camera doorbell.
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Scariest thing by far while trick or treating?
Almost all houses had Ring camera doorbell.
Almost all houses had Ring camera doorbell.
How many crooks will be able to get away with cooking the books by saying "I'm innocent, I used AI"? x.com/zackkorman/status/19748...
#genAI
#genAI
x.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
How many crooks will be able to get away with cooking the books by saying "I'm innocent, I used AI"? x.com/zackkorman/status/19748...
#genAI
#genAI
Did I need to buy that hundredth live Springsteen album?
No, but it's about the price of a pack of cigarettes, much healthier and brings me rare confort.
(and this one has a different version of a song I like)
No, but it's about the price of a pack of cigarettes, much healthier and brings me rare confort.
(and this one has a different version of a song I like)
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Did I need to buy that hundredth live Springsteen album?
No, but it's about the price of a pack of cigarettes, much healthier and brings me rare confort.
(and this one has a different version of a song I like)
No, but it's about the price of a pack of cigarettes, much healthier and brings me rare confort.
(and this one has a different version of a song I like)
Remember to use social media clients that support filtering.
My timeline just got a lot healthier.
My timeline just got a lot healthier.
September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Remember to use social media clients that support filtering.
My timeline just got a lot healthier.
My timeline just got a lot healthier.
@harrytrimble.bsky.social please don’t use continually changing colours for the full area of your slides background. It’s distracting for everybody and for people like me with vestibular disorders it makes us physically sick. I had to look at my shoes for the entirety of your talk…
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
@harrytrimble.bsky.social please don’t use continually changing colours for the full area of your slides background. It’s distracting for everybody and for people like me with vestibular disorders it makes us physically sick. I had to look at my shoes for the entirety of your talk…
Stuff magazine tips for how to make the most of iOS 26.
Number one tip: disable #LiquidGlass by enabling accessibility options.
With a painful but accurate reference to Windows Vista.
No, it won't be just usability experts like me complaining.
Brace, brace.
Number one tip: disable #LiquidGlass by enabling accessibility options.
With a painful but accurate reference to Windows Vista.
No, it won't be just usability experts like me complaining.
Brace, brace.
August 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Stuff magazine tips for how to make the most of iOS 26.
Number one tip: disable #LiquidGlass by enabling accessibility options.
With a painful but accurate reference to Windows Vista.
No, it won't be just usability experts like me complaining.
Brace, brace.
Number one tip: disable #LiquidGlass by enabling accessibility options.
With a painful but accurate reference to Windows Vista.
No, it won't be just usability experts like me complaining.
Brace, brace.
Finally knowing what Hergé made the Indian character say in Tintin in Tibet, thanks to worldlens (now built into Google translate).
15 year later this still feels like sorcery.
15 year later this still feels like sorcery.
August 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Finally knowing what Hergé made the Indian character say in Tintin in Tibet, thanks to worldlens (now built into Google translate).
15 year later this still feels like sorcery.
15 year later this still feels like sorcery.
I still can't believe Apple will force this shit #liquidGlass onto millions of unsuspecting users in a few weeks.
They didn't think different part of a photo could have different colours, so the info and the center and all the controls at the top right are unreadable.
They didn't think different part of a photo could have different colours, so the info and the center and all the controls at the top right are unreadable.
August 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I still can't believe Apple will force this shit #liquidGlass onto millions of unsuspecting users in a few weeks.
They didn't think different part of a photo could have different colours, so the info and the center and all the controls at the top right are unreadable.
They didn't think different part of a photo could have different colours, so the info and the center and all the controls at the top right are unreadable.
AI is inherently minority hostile:
Got a text message with a code from GOV.UK. The message is in both English and Welsh.
The Apple Intelligence summary only provides the English summary.
(I highly doubt it was clever enough to see welsh, understand it as the same message and ignore it).
Got a text message with a code from GOV.UK. The message is in both English and Welsh.
The Apple Intelligence summary only provides the English summary.
(I highly doubt it was clever enough to see welsh, understand it as the same message and ignore it).
August 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
AI is inherently minority hostile:
Got a text message with a code from GOV.UK. The message is in both English and Welsh.
The Apple Intelligence summary only provides the English summary.
(I highly doubt it was clever enough to see welsh, understand it as the same message and ignore it).
Got a text message with a code from GOV.UK. The message is in both English and Welsh.
The Apple Intelligence summary only provides the English summary.
(I highly doubt it was clever enough to see welsh, understand it as the same message and ignore it).
Looks like the iPad OS last beta forcefully reenabled Apple "intelligence".
Good: picked up my trips accross the Channel sea from my email.
Very bad: incorrectly but confidently state it's by boat.
(LeShuttle is the under sea train service for vehicle)
Good: picked up my trips accross the Channel sea from my email.
Very bad: incorrectly but confidently state it's by boat.
(LeShuttle is the under sea train service for vehicle)
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Looks like the iPad OS last beta forcefully reenabled Apple "intelligence".
Good: picked up my trips accross the Channel sea from my email.
Very bad: incorrectly but confidently state it's by boat.
(LeShuttle is the under sea train service for vehicle)
Good: picked up my trips accross the Channel sea from my email.
Very bad: incorrectly but confidently state it's by boat.
(LeShuttle is the under sea train service for vehicle)
Online meeting tools should not record the camera of anyone with their microphone muted. Observers, not speakers.
July 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Online meeting tools should not record the camera of anyone with their microphone muted. Observers, not speakers.
This looked like a great well illustrated article… but every image of a mac displays a full emulator, inline with the page. YOU CAN USE THE MACS on the page.
😮🤯😍
Well done @aresluna.org !
😮🤯😍
Well done @aresluna.org !
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
July 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This looked like a great well illustrated article… but every image of a mac displays a full emulator, inline with the page. YOU CAN USE THE MACS on the page.
😮🤯😍
Well done @aresluna.org !
😮🤯😍
Well done @aresluna.org !
"As long as the understanding of our value […] is constrained… outputs, the work that creates impact will be the first to be dismissed as 'unnecessary'."
Nodded so hard and often reading this piece that my neck hurts.
Nodded so hard and often reading this piece that my neck hurts.
AI saved the feature factory
When outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"As long as the understanding of our value […] is constrained… outputs, the work that creates impact will be the first to be dismissed as 'unnecessary'."
Nodded so hard and often reading this piece that my neck hurts.
Nodded so hard and often reading this piece that my neck hurts.
Basic "intelligence" feature I actually want:
if I'm creating a meeting titled "Fabien and Bob" and there is one Bob I always meet, my calendar should add Bob to the event.
if I'm creating a meeting titled "Fabien and Bob" and there is one Bob I always meet, my calendar should add Bob to the event.
June 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Basic "intelligence" feature I actually want:
if I'm creating a meeting titled "Fabien and Bob" and there is one Bob I always meet, my calendar should add Bob to the event.
if I'm creating a meeting titled "Fabien and Bob" and there is one Bob I always meet, my calendar should add Bob to the event.
The material software designers should study most is the humans.
Less "how does light propagate through glass", more "how do humans discern text".
Less "how does light propagate through glass", more "how do humans discern text".
June 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The material software designers should study most is the humans.
Less "how does light propagate through glass", more "how do humans discern text".
Less "how does light propagate through glass", more "how do humans discern text".
As a user I want to see what I'm looking for less clearly so that I can see an unrecognisable version of what I'm not currently looking for through it…
#liquidGlass #WWDC #iPadOS26
#liquidGlass #WWDC #iPadOS26
June 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
As a user I want to see what I'm looking for less clearly so that I can see an unrecognisable version of what I'm not currently looking for through it…
#liquidGlass #WWDC #iPadOS26
#liquidGlass #WWDC #iPadOS26
Standard play cards are 5 century old. The ones I know are only used in France. The British banned their importation in 1628 to boost local production, but they weren't as skilled so they used a different simplified and uglier set.
https://www.adpoker.fr/jeu-de-cartes-anglais.html
(TIL bc the WE
https://www.adpoker.fr/jeu-de-cartes-anglais.html
(TIL bc the WE
May 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Standard play cards are 5 century old. The ones I know are only used in France. The British banned their importation in 1628 to boost local production, but they weren't as skilled so they used a different simplified and uglier set.
https://www.adpoker.fr/jeu-de-cartes-anglais.html
(TIL bc the WE
https://www.adpoker.fr/jeu-de-cartes-anglais.html
(TIL bc the WE
Undercelebrated: the Airpods charging case. Completely mitigates for the small batteries in buds.
Protects, harder to loose, charges "automatically" everytime they go in the case, while on the go and away from power AND allow to continue listening while charging.
Absolutely core to AirPods.
Protects, harder to loose, charges "automatically" everytime they go in the case, while on the go and away from power AND allow to continue listening while charging.
Absolutely core to AirPods.
May 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Undercelebrated: the Airpods charging case. Completely mitigates for the small batteries in buds.
Protects, harder to loose, charges "automatically" everytime they go in the case, while on the go and away from power AND allow to continue listening while charging.
Absolutely core to AirPods.
Protects, harder to loose, charges "automatically" everytime they go in the case, while on the go and away from power AND allow to continue listening while charging.
Absolutely core to AirPods.
Wondering if my Linked in feed being choke full of AI pushers might have something to do with its owner Microsoft standing to profit from AI use...
Massive conflict of interest right there.
Massive conflict of interest right there.
April 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Wondering if my Linked in feed being choke full of AI pushers might have something to do with its owner Microsoft standing to profit from AI use...
Massive conflict of interest right there.
Massive conflict of interest right there.
It's absurd that Apple's translate app isn't available for Mac. They don't even allow the iPad app to run.
So many neglected aspect of macOS, tvOS etc that could get a lot better if they cared even a little…
So many neglected aspect of macOS, tvOS etc that could get a lot better if they cared even a little…
March 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's absurd that Apple's translate app isn't available for Mac. They don't even allow the iPad app to run.
So many neglected aspect of macOS, tvOS etc that could get a lot better if they cared even a little…
So many neglected aspect of macOS, tvOS etc that could get a lot better if they cared even a little…