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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 01/09/2026

Well that came in suddenly. Yuck.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 24/08/2026

Few things bond two random middle-aged men on the street faster than them each holding a different camera and one of them asking, "Whatcha shooting with?"

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 08/08/2026

Hot on the heels of the huge 4.0 update, some fast-follow fixes and additions for Breathable landed today. Most notably: Favorite location feature for Trends, apps now fetch AQI regularly even without widgets, and visionOS list view background fixes for OS 26. apps.apple.com/us/app/breatha...

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Breathable Air Quality Widget App - App Store

Download Breathable Air Quality Widget by Karbon on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Breathable Air Quality…

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 05/08/2026

Ironically fitting day here in Portland to launch a major update to an AQI app.

Breathable’s new Trends feature showing the bad air quality in Portland.

Breathable widget showing our current AQI of 160 in Portland.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 05/08/2026

My passion project, 2 years in the making: Breathable 4.0 is officially available on all your devices, including now on Apple Vision Pro! Completely free everywhere. Added PurpleAir support, Trends, more widget customization, custom fonts, so much more. breathable.app

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Breathable

An air quality app and widgets for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS and macOS.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 03/08/2026

I'm trying to get Breathable 4.0 out for all users today, but Apple review might take a day or two. In the mean time, if you want to use 4.0 to track the awful smoke conditions across the country, please join the TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/vvl... Breathable is completely free!

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Join the Breathable Air Quality Widget beta

Available on iOS

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 25/07/2026

Nearing release of Breathable 4.0, still looking for TestFlight testers: testflight.apple.com/join/vvl... New in v4: → visionOS version! → PurpleAir and WAQI support → Custom fonts in widgets → New Apple Watch widgets → Trends charts → Countless other things! → Still completely free!!

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Join the Breathable Air Quality Widget beta

Available on iOS

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 17/07/2026

Lots of folks suffering from poor air quality right now. By coincidence, I'm wrapping up 2 years of work on Breathable 4.0, a massive rewrite with new services (PurpleAir, WAQI), syncing, trends, and visionOS support. It's still free! Join TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/vvl...

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Join the Breathable Air Quality Widget beta

Available on iOS

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 29/05/2026

From the team that brought you Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, please preorder our new game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. No this is NOT confusing and yes both games are basically about the same thing. But this one is $80. No I said eighty with an 8

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 15/05/2026

45. Mentally still in my 30s, physically sometimes feels like I'm in my 50s, overall feeling pretty good as I settle into the meaty part of middle-aged. The grays multiply daily but I'm enjoying it.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 07/03/2026

Past 7 days: Karbon 16-year anniversary 🎉 15-year wedding anniversary 🎉 My mother started chemotherapy 💉 Kiddo with the flu 😷 Flat tire 🛞 Worked about 60 hours 🫠 Cranked out some terrific product requirements 😎 Played a little Marathon 🎮 Fuck cancer. Proud of my mom. Kiddo is feeling much better.

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 06/03/2026

Yesterday, Bungie released their new game, Marathon. Having spent thousands of hours in Destiny and Destiny 2 in the past 10 years, I wrote a long post today about how I'm all-in on Marathon and hoping Bungie can make this game a success: karbonbased.io/posts/2026/03/...

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Karbon Based — Betting on Bungie

Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 04/03/2026

Today's our 15-year wedding anniversary. Last night I worked until 1AM when our son—who has the flu and feels terrible—woke up my wife, which made it impossible for her to fall back asleep. I didn't fall asleep until 4AM. Now I'm downing espresso during meetings while my wife fails to nap. 15 years!

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 03/03/2026

It's 2026 and we're back to Apple's biggest display size being 27 inches. What a disappointment. I don't understand why we're permanently locked into the idea that 27 inches is the biggest a display needs to be.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 11/02/2026

Just saw the news about James Van Der Beek dying after his fight with colon cancer. So awful. My generation grew up watching Van Der Beek every week on Dawson's Creek and talking about the episode around the cafeteria the next day. RIP.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 26/01/2026

Recently, @gruber.foo wrote a DF post (in reply to a New Yorker article by Kyle Chayka) about something near and dear to me: “The Relief of Simple Software”. Today, I wrote about how 22 years ago this became the catalyst for me writing my first native app, xPad: karbonbased.io/posts/2026/0...

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Karbon Based — TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 24/01/2026

@bsky.app Do you have plans to fix the app icon on iPadOS? It doesn’t support dark mode.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 19/01/2026

Hobbies I am currently putting effort into, when I have free time: Blogging again, photography, modeling for 3D printing, video editing and color correction, gaming, reading, restoring a few old Macs. The free time I end up having for these hobbies? Nearly zero.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 02/01/2026

Prior to playing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, I kept thinking, "Why did it take Retro 8 years to finish this game?" After playing, I realized that's how long it took to QA collecting all the green crystals in that god-awful desert.

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 30/12/2025

After reading Louie Mantia's blog post "And Stay Out", some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive's influence on Apple's interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/...

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Karbon Based — And Stay Out

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 04/12/2025

All of these things are true: 1. Alan Dye should never have had the role he did at Apple 2. Dye damaged Apple's software for years (and for years to come) 3. Tim Cook should have removed him long ago 4. It's a huge win for Apple's users that he left 5. Meta has such poor taste that they wanted him

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 13/11/2025

Our older son turned 13 today, so we are now the parents of a teenager. We feel too young to have a kid this old, but as we barrel through our mid-40s, I think it's probably time to stop thinking that way. The time dilation effect of watching children grow continues to increase.

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 21/10/2025

People bombarding me with "why do you care if Liquid Glass sucks or doesn't!" seem to forget or not realize it is LITERALLY MY JOB TO CARE. It is my business. I have made my living for the past 16 years building apps for people and clients on these platforms. I am also a user of these platforms.

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 20/10/2025

Think about how many collective millions of dollars in time and effort have been spent by developers and designers to try to adopt Liquid Glass in the past year, only to have Apple start to walk it back on the very first minor release since launch. This is an admission, and embarrassing.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 15/09/2025

Just a quick note that while work is on-going to bring Breathable into the world of OSes 26, I've just released version 3.0.2, a compatibility update to ensure things continue to function properly in the meantime. breathable.app

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Breathable

An air quality index widget for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 12/09/2025

Looking forward to the public release of OSes 26 next week when everyone who didn't use the beta opens Messages for the first time and sees all the dumbass backgrounds I set for our chats.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 23/08/2025

"People keep quitting the app." "But... we make our money when they're using it." "Yeah, but sometimes they quit it because they don't care about us making money, they just want to browse the web." "Make it so quitting doesn't work. Make it require a different way to quit and tell them every time."

Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 25/07/2025

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am i having a stroke

three bumpers stickers on a car. “you can’t eat coal”, “randonnee: french for can’t tele” and “i heart eating coal”

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 25/07/2025

One thing I've been thinking about a lot since writing this is that we just finally got into a good spot with iOS UI/UX. It took nearly a decade for the drastic over-correction of iOS 7 to smooth out and be refined, to find middle ground again. And so of course Apple throws a grenade in the room.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 23/07/2025

Been told (rightly so) in the past that I tend to be pessimistic in my takes on UI changes, but I should preface this that my gut reaction to iOS 7 was horror—and it proved correct in the long-run. So, about Liquid Glass: It's a giant mess and quite bad. Looks okay in a show reel, but bad in use.

Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com · 06/06/2025

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One small step we can all take toward improving the web is using hyperlinks the way God intended. Please. Please. Pleek

Two sentences illustrating this:

Wrong: You can learn more about dingos by clicking here. (The word “here” is an underlined link.)

Right: Learn more about dingos (the whole phrase is the link)

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Sebastiaan de With @sdw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I wrote some words and made some renders on what the New Design Language of iOS, iPadOS and macOS might be. Physicality: The new age of UI. www.lux.camera/physicality-...

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Physicality: the new age of UI

There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 28/03/2025

"Business expert" "money President" who "knows what he's doing" and can "make deals" really doing a bang-up job, especially if the goal is to ruin the economy faster than any President in history. This isn't even nearly the worst thing about this dipshit, but it's impressively stupid and disastrous.

Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 26/03/2025

Me, this morning, only 3/4 of the way through the first of four holes.

An Airplane meme of Captain Oveur talking, with the caption “You ever try to hammerdrill 3-inch deep holes into concrete, Joey?”