for my next adventure, i've joined Software Applications Incorporated as a Founding Engineer. excited to build great software applications and bring AI to the desktop!

very happy to see Window Tiling land in macOS Sequoia! #wwdc24 it was one of the last projects i worked on at Apple

Text entry suggestions are available as public API in macOS Sequoia! 🎉 developer.apple.com/wwdc24/10124 #wwdc24 #appkit

Sometimes you just gotta

on visionOS 2.4, every SwiftUI document-based app has gnarly visual artifacts due to the duplication of the root SwiftUI view hierarchy. even happens when using the Xcode template. a bad regression but the visuals are kinda fun! wrote a bit more on this: philz.blog/document-based…

perhaps viewing software as an art form more so than an engineering discipline is a path towards building products that delight, inspire, and uplift. (the photo below is of Fold 2, an inspiring digital artwork by Samia Halaby, taken by me at Tate Modern.)

very excited to share what i've been working on since 2023. as an uncompromisingly native Mac app, Sky is going to set the standard for user experience and software quality. it's a great day to be a Mac nerd.

love seeing the SwiftUI additions to visionOS this year like object manipulation and better RealityKit interop

both AppKit and UIKit now have built-in support for Swift Observable types, with automatic change tracking. even better, this can be back-deployed to macOS 15 and iOS 18. even more powerful combined with transactional observation in Swift 6.2 philz.blog/built-in-suppo…

there's something about Deep Research reading my blog that has an "answering my own question" vibe to it

noise and motion blur in UI are both underrated and underused

Super excited to finally share that Software Applications Incorporated is now part of OpenAI. Delighted and humbled to be on this journey with the incredible team, and looking forward to the exciting things to come! openai.com/index/openai-a…

It's great day to be a Mac nerd, again

Working on the Fog material of Sky with Cameron Burgess has been a true highlight. The material is profoundly fresh yet feels unmistakably Mac. It's never been done before yet it doesn't overwhelm. Balancing usability, visuals, and performance took time, and I'm proud of

So excited for this new chapter for Sky

Can't wait to see what we can achieve together! Stephan Casas' level of commitment to building great Mac software (and doing it right) makes me think it'll be something truly worth your time.