Stephen Hackett

Co-Founder of the @relay podcast network. Host of @connected and @mpu. Writer of @512pixels. iPod Sock & PowerPC enthusiast.

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Connected :relayfm:connected@relayfm.social
2025-06-16

Got WWDC questions? Fire away for this week's episode relay.fm/connected/feedback

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-12

@jimmyjamesuk Seems weird to me too.

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-12

@johnvoorhees @appstories @viticci Those mic arms are freaking me out

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-12

@jonathanreed Classic Mac tattoo buddies! 512pixels.net/dogcow/

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-12

Have you used the "Macintosh" screensaver Apple included with macOS Sequoia but have wondered how it works? I look under the covers and come bearing gifts in this post: 512pixels.net/2025/06/inside-m

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-11

Updated with hand-on-heart true 6K files from macOS Tahoe. Unlike Sequoia last year, Tahoe uses actual image files for its wallpaper:

512pixels.net/projects/default

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2025-06-11

Connected #556: "The Last Thing You Touch"

relay.fm/connected/556

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-11

@_Davidsmith It's so much better than the dark tinting last year.

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-11

@marcoarment better get on that new lead man

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David Smith_Davidsmith
2025-06-10

I'm gonna dust off my 'Design Diary' series to walk through my summer experience of adopting the iOS 26 Design System. I find it personally helpful to write down my thought process as I work and hopefully it will also be useful more broadly.

My first post is about how I've decided that my initial implementation of Liquid Glass will be 100% default and standard UI. I am going to hold myself to not doing any hacks or custom things until I fully understand the new system.

david-smith.org/blog/2025/06/1

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Mac Power Users :relayfm:mpu@relayfm.social
2025-06-10

Episode 801: WWDC 2025: A Return to Form

Apple's 2025 WWDC was jam-packed, from a new design system across its operating systems to updated iPad multitasking, a plethora of updates to apps like Messages and Phone, and new features for CarPlay. David and Stephen break it all down.

relay.fm/mpu/801

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Literal Cosmo Catalanocosmocatalano
2025-06-10
top-bottom comparison meme. Upper Left: Apple Finder logo v15.5. Upper right, Apple Finder logo v16.0. Lower left the original "Ecco Homo" fresco. Lower left: its botched cartoonish restoration from 2012
Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-10

@josh0 Right?!

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-10

For kicks, I ran the current Finder icon through Apple’s new Icon Composer app, and I think it looks pretty good with Liquid Glass, even in the clear and tinted modes.
eworld.social/@ismh86/11465613

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-10

@matt WOAH

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-10

Tahoe flips the colors in the Finder icon, which has the darker color on the left FOREVER and they gotta roll this change back.

512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-m

Apple: Feedback FB17840162

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2025-06-09
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Evgeny Kuzminea_kuzmin@masto.ai
2025-06-09

@ismh86 Liquid Glass would pair well with a new version of Flower Power iMac, just putting it out there

Stephen Hackettismh86@eworld.social
2025-06-09

my word

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