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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 10/09/2026

New achievement unlocked: A 5-star review for Breathable which complains that I'm pushing out too many updates and they're sick of seeing the "what's new"message. (They're completely right!)

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 07/09/2026

Since the huge 4.0 launch of Breathable I've been actively pushing out updates, and we're up to 4.3 today. Recent highlights: → macOS Menu Bar Extra support → Greatly improved Trends speed → Apple Watch location fixes → Many, many more little changes and additions 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 · 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

I'll have a LOT more to say about everything I built for this version, but for now I'm just thrilled to have it out and usable for everyone, especially those of us being affected by heavy wildfire smoke. Breathable is completely free and always will be. Have feature ideas or find bugs? Let me know!

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 05/08/2026

And here's the direct link to the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/breatha... The app doesn't ask for reviews or ratings (I don't want to bother users in that way for something like this), but if you enjoy using it a nice review would help others find it in the store.

apps.apple.com

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

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 · 03/08/2026

I'm trying to get 4.0 to production as we speak, but in the mean time anyone who needs 4.0 can join the TestFlight here: testflight.apple.com/join/vvlE4rWu

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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

Okay, which one of you sickos managed to somehow install this 26+ only beta on an iOS 15 iPhone SE??

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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...

testflight.apple.com

Join the Breathable Air Quality Widget beta

Available on iOS

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 29/05/2026

It's absolutely unfair that AI coopted my favorite punctuation mark because—like you—I have been using too many em dashes for like 20+ years and I don't plan to stop.

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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

I'm sad my kids don't have an awful double-exposure Sears portrait to follow them around for the rest of their lives like I do.

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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.

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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!

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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

Between helping them find a lost shoe near the slide or just ending up at the same restaurant down the street a table over, it was always fun to see their rapidly growing family and interact with James and his wife as fellow parents. I'm so sorry for his family to have to go on without him.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 11/02/2026

On a personal note, when we lived in LA we used to run into James and his wife at our favorite park, us with our kids and them with theirs, and they were both so tuned into their children. They had more kids than us even then, and I openly joked that I didn't know how they were managing it.

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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

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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

Waiting for group buys and parts that have become severely delayed, so keyboards will likely be a mid-to-late hobby resurgence. 😅

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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.

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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 · 18/11/2025

If someone told Shawn and me when we made that film that people would still talk about it fondly 16 years later, I don’t think we would have believed them. We’re incredibly lucky that it stuck with so many people.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 17/11/2025

What a kind thing to say! I really appreciate it. And I agree, I still have such cherished memories of that era of Vimeo.

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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.

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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.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 20/10/2025

Yes, but that was the argument BEFORE this... that Liquid Glass was good and worth it, heading toward the future, etc. But this Settings addition makes it clear that is NOT the case, considering you can just turn it off.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 20/10/2025

Alan Dye told us this was the future of all platforms, critical, amazing, and beautiful. And here we are, at 26.1, allowing users to just totally opt-out. They didn't even make it ONE CALENDAR QUARTER before starting to roll it back. Why would anyone invest in Liquid Glass now?

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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 · 17/09/2025

What a complete and total embarrassment.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 15/09/2025

Plan is to get these out the door by next month, but as this is a passion/side-project, it's hard to find the time for it prioritized against everything else going on. But I'm getting there, slowly. Appreciate your patience! For now, though, the apps should all continue to work, just without glass.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 15/09/2025

In a similar vein, iPad is a disaster, as now it supports all sorts of sizes and Breathable's configuration app has always been a bit of a visual hack on iPad (basically an iPhone size wrapped in padding), so I am rewriting parts of that too.

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 15/09/2025

While moving the iOS app to OS 26 was not terribly challenging, the drastic changes to how the Catalyst app looks and works on macOS 26 required I rewrite large portions of it to work properly. I'm making good progress, but not done just yet.

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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

breathable.app

Breathable

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

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Garrett Murray @garre.tt · 12/09/2025

It’s actually crazy that it’s shared, and there’s no option to set your own without it overwriting whatever was there before. People are just going to fight to constantly outdo each other or choose.

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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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