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Jamie Froggatt

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Hobbyist iPadOS dev, full time iOS/iPadOS dev. Anime, tech, and spicy food enthusiast. 日本語ではだんだん上手くなっている。 BlueSky mirror […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@SalvagedTechnic, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Finally! My long-awaited OpenCode for iPad. www.macstories.net/reviews/open-min…

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Something has to be done about algorithmic feeds. Those feeds get a foothold with every back-to-back video, and I’d be all for limiting Youtube shorts since I just don’t like them. But those feeds influence people of all ages, not just kids. I don’t want to turn anything into a black and white […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

UK gov: “We’ve got to protect the kids from this kind of content.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJSHrMUxB7k…

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

@Migueldeicaza I must be getting old, I liked it as it was. I moved it right back to the middle with the new toolbar customisation options. ✨

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Resizable iPhone app windows was also a great surprise, and I’m interpreting it as a prelude to… You guessed it, EXTERNAL DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR IPHON- nah just kidding, it’s for the foldable isn’t it.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

mutatingfunc.github.io/blog/2026-05… So, looking back at my wishlist for this release, we got… The death of UIRequiresFullscreen! We actually seem to be approaching best-case scenario for this, where they might actually enforce this for games - which can use […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Voice Control isn’t doing as much as I expected with natural language support, but it is *smooth*. Really responsive.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

I’m on the iPadOS beta! Loving the performance improvements, the persistent menu bar (when it works). Siri is a buggy mess right now, but has potential. I’d love an Agents.md equivalent. Siri app gaining spotlight indexing would be an amazing memory solution. Shortcuts access broken? New […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

www.newscientist.com/article/252650…

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Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Inspired by @Slatepad, I’ve put together my own wishlist for iPadOS in 2026! mutatingfunc.github.io/blog/2026-05…

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iPadOS 2026 Wishlist

With just a few weeks to go before WWDC 2026, here’s my wishlist for iPadOS in 2026! OS-level tabs This feature massively benefits screens with less real-estate to work with. It seems especially suited to iPad. It exists as a macOS feature, but I’ve pulled this out of the grab-bag because I’d like to see Apple go further than the current macOS implementation, by allowing tabs from multiple apps in the same window.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

iPad pro tip: Overclock your Dock - disable recent apps and App Library to free up extra spaces on the Dock for apps. Fill up the Dock, then enable both again.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

@Migueldeicaza Very cool! Love the use of colour.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Counterpoint: Coding languages are based on English, and localisation has never caught on to my knowledge. It’s never been an even playing field, and I’m just privileged to be a native English speaker. There’s probably going to be more international competition in the long-term, when the […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

I loved coding because it put everyone on an even playing field - our ability to write great apps was down to our experience and creativity… Bar the App Store fee to get published. Looking around, it’s increasingly feeling like my ability to compete is just down to whether I have enough […]

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Apple Maps is showing Lebanon as a depopulated place. All village names erased. Compare Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Guess nobody lives there, they will need to send Israeli settlers to make the mountains and coastal resort towns flourish.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

@stroughtonsmith I definitely get behind everything you’d like to see. We need some escape hatch from the closed ecosystem, be it compilers or a full-on macOS compatibility sandbox. Overlapping windows didn’t make quite such a difference for those of us who prefer other window managers. The […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

This comes literally the day after I’ve been exploring Fedora, because the only option Apple provides besides iPad is a relic of a laptop. It’s taught me Apple has a stranglehold on powerful hardware, and tablet-laptops are kinda dead to fold-around 2 in 1s. But it was like being a kid again […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

iOS 26.4 – I have to scan my ID and prove I’m over 18 to install SAFARI EXTENSIONS now… Even if Apple were to open up iPad to coding and bring command line tools now, I don’t see them rolling this back. They’ve just stated quite clearly that it’s just not my device to do with as I please. I’m […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

If you’ve ever thought Apple isn’t opinionated on app architecture, look again. App Intents has a type called AppDependencyManager built-in, which promotes injection of dependencies, and they even recommend using it in the main app target, setting it up in your App’s init. Buttons and Toggle can […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

So… Anyone got any tech philosophy podcasts or do I have to start my own? :blobcatcoffee:

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

For any other tech, this would be absurd. Does your calculator do your maths for you? Does your keyboard write for you? Not generally. You do maths with a calculator, and write with a keyboard. LLMs are deterministic in their probabilistic outputs, and they're not intelligent. At least […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Stop personifying LLMs. It assigns agency and responsibility to a tool, and we all know you can't blame (or credit!) the tools. My LLM wrote this code, and then committed it. ↓ I wrote this code and committed it using an LLM. Getting this language wrong skews our relationship with our tools […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Today’s white hot choc at a local café was very photogenic.

Frothy white hot choc in a green mug on a yellow saucer.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Running a desktop OS on a phone chip… It’s marketing and cost-savings. Running a desktop OS on a phone… That’s a game-changer, and one that’s happening on the Android/Linux side. I hope the Neo is a prelude, not the main act.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Hot take: People who think the MacBook Neo is a game-changer have never heard of the second-hand market. (Or they appreciate pretty colours ✨)

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

@nileane I’ve recently concluded for all I don’t much like the LLM situation, or maybe specifically because I don’t like it, I need to educate myself on them early to face the future on my own terms. I want to avoid the subscriptions for stolen data. Give a tool any responsibility, and you get […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

So, given: • Local LLM with hardware to power it. • Manual confirmation for any IO tasks by the LLM. • Trustworthy code-based tools. • Direct tool output in the UI, no LLM filter. I think that’s my line. The line where I can actually get really really excited about this tech.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

Meanwhile Apple are doing amazingly on the chips front. I’ve been playing with some local LLMs for tool use, and they’re reaching a threshold where they can use and even build tools competently enough to be useful, entirely offline. If these can run locally and build reliable automations in […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

I’m an LLM sceptic. LLMs controlling the computer is a security nightmare, misinformation is to be avoided. Most modern agent clients build in some level of security, turning repetitive input tasks into a series of outputs & permissions dialogs. Permission dialogs suck, but output review is […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

Apple should see this inability to escape macOS and the laptop form factor as a serious problem. They launched a whole new platform recently. Vision Pro. An AR workstation computer. A Mac-like approach, floating windows. What did people do with it? They used it as an expensive monitor. For […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

I’m honestly considering other options more and more. Maybe a Surface or Linux tablet would let me build apps *and* have a nice form factor. 🤔 Compose Multiplatform could let me build apps in Android desktop mode via the Linux subsystem and have them run on iOS too. 🤔 Why would I buy a sucky […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

The MacBook Neo looks great. Fun colours, low price. It’s objectively better in every way than my M1 MacBook Air. But the non-touch, non-convertible laptop is a dated form factor - it will always feel crippled in basic HCI terms vs an iPad. I could use it for Xcode, but I’m going to have a […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

@matt I’d love to see a breakdown of the differences of Liquid Glass on iPadOS and macOS. Superficially they look the same (iPadOS is just macOS ‘lite’ now right?) but macOS seems to have had a much worse reception, with various people saying they ‘like it more’ on iPadOS. I saw a bit of this in […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

@ChrisLawley You showed off resizing the Final Cut window on an external display. My first question is… How small does the window get? The iPad doesn’t currently do minimum window sizes to my knowledge, so did they make a whole iPhone layout or is this a sneak peak for a new API? Glad to see […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

@quicheindustries I just had a check and alas, I think you’ve got an equivalent for every button type I’ve added so far, where applicable. Saved tabs and “New tab folder” are still _kinda_ a Shimmer exclusive depending on how you score it. 😉 I thought I might have you with “copy link” or […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

This should mark the end of a turbulent phase as Shimmer has gone from being a bookmark manager to a real browser, and adopted Liquid Glass, in a very short space of time. Expect the next few releases to be more feature-light as I tidy up the backend. The code is holding up fairly well […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

The “Liquid Glass” mode has been replaced by “Immersive”, which was going to be THE new design, but I did end up trying to bring back Balanced and Arclike relatively last minute. It was a bit of a hacky job, and Arclike especially will get more consideration going forward. With these new modes […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Note: “Dock” just means bottom toolbar, for now. I’m still considering which tabs make sense to display in it. Maybe that could be an option! 😄 Toolbar customisation has had some polish, and I’m finding customisation is not just power-user-friendly and great for prototyping, but also a great […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Other notable changes: The sidebar can be resized down into just icons, which allows you to do a slight-scroll-and-hold gesture to show names. There’s a “dock” now. I somehow managed to realise my 2 design prototypes from last year into a single working app! 🥳 I’ve added the ability to […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Shimmer Browser v3.3.0 is submitted to Apple! Introducing a new look which scales down to phone sizes perfectly, and a whole load of new settings including full toolbar button configuration. Committing to releasing this weekend was a tough deadline, but I needed to get this update out there […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

@quicheindustries I heard you like customisation. This isn’t even the main new thing in the next update. I’m very excited. 😁 Shimmer Browser becomes a real browser this weekend.

A sneak peek of Shimmer Browser sidebar button customisation, showing Back and Forward.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

Silly me, thinking it was broken at larger text sizes. Apple can be very consistent when they want to be, and would never let things break only when accessibility is enabled.

The “larger text” page’s explanation text gets cut off when the Settings sidebar is shown.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

When you want to test how your app looks at accessibility sizes, and you realise Apple hasn’t put in the work on the very page you enable them. 🫠

The “larger text” page’s explanation text gets cut off when the Settings sidebar is shown.

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

On a positive note today, my lil purple iPhone 12 Mini has been hanging on for so long… It’s chugging along, and only just beginning to feel like my 4s did before I upgraded to the XR. It’s pulled through, surviving multiple drops, and it seems it’s going to earn a well-earned retirement this […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

“You’re receiving this email because you subscribed to our mailing list” “We know you specifically remember unchecking the box for marketing emails, but in paragraph 2 of article 5 of our terms and conditions, there’s a clear footnote that the checkbox actually does nothing and just entering […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Will this abdication of responsibility hold up in court? Well, this software was provided without warranty of any kind, and in no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages incurred through use of the software. Software licenses are kinda horrifying when you think about it. 🤔

Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

I think people forget sometimes that programming languages are made by humans, for humans, to unambiguously define what a computer should do. LLMs for quick code input is revolutionary. But the idea that someone in a professional setting wouldn’t appreciate their responsibility to read what […]

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Jamie Froggatt @salvagedtechnic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

I’ve actually achieved one of my items from last year, so I need to note one amendment. This year, we can replace my hopes getting iOS 18 support 6 months late, with maybe getting iOS 26 support 9 months late. How far we’ve come!