Summer 2025 Memories I

I need to start somewhere, right? #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Fridays are @podman-desktop.io design system updates! Check out the new Tooltip component (aka humble beginnings).

#a11y #accessibility #ux #i18n #rtl #designsystems #opensource #containers

Here’s the PSD with all four themes, if you need it: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z9g2q...

See, they apply a 9-slice technique to the shadow, similar to what you see on macOS (bsky.app/profile/vanc...). However, instead of tiling the middle column and row, they stretch them. Additionally, they likely add a touch of blue noise on top to reduce banding.

Let’s continue with Windows, particularly WinUI/Fluent. Shadows are interesting: they appear to rotate in 3D around the X-axis. The top part of the shadow is closer to the window edge than the bottom part.

Here's a PSD if anyone needs it. The themes include light, dark, and high-contrast light and dark, as well as border effects.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nb676...

Photoshop Quick Mask helps reveal where the macOS shadow tiling begins and the size of its tiles; it's a 9-scale bitmap with 16 pt tiles and 150 pt corners. This investigation is a great adventure! :)

So, it's here again. Time to reconstruct how they do it and make the atoms for our new design system.

High contrast themes in macOS Tahoe are quite unfinished, and I hope they will be improved. For example, traffic lights have two inner strokes: one normal 0.5pt stroke (used in all themes) and another HC-only 1pt stroke. See the image ALT descriptions for more details.
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macOS Tahoma 26.
You’re welcome.

Today, I learned that you get a caterpillar if you repeatedly press ⌘⌃S in the Calculator.

Boston #photography #boston

Boston University Bridge #photography #boston

For me, pixel art is a great meditation. You wouldn’t believe how much I missed that.

Hello, world.

Here’s a photo, to start with something meaningful. Akamai in Cambridge, MA, two weeks ago.