maxvoltar

maxvoltar

@maxvoltar.be

Artisn’t. Love or learn. https://timvandamme.com https://mvkb.com / @mvkb.com

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Before I go down the rabbit hole trying to build it myself: What’s a simple, social, iOS native reading tracker?

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Since a lot of people don’t seem to know this, a little PSA: it’s super easy to connect one or more pairs of AirPods to an AppleTV. My favorite way of watching tv when the kids are in bed.

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What’s the German word for when you’re a designer and look at a piece of software and just get sad because you see the potential it had?

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Install, give it access to everything (yes, everything, all the time), let it run a couple of days. You won’t see anything right away. You can turn off (anonymized) crash reports in the onboarding flow, but it’d be helpful if you kept them on.

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ADHD is finally after years of trying to figure something out, going “oh my god it’s so simple, all I need to do is…” and then POOF 2 other thoughts pop up and you’re back to square one.

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Being bed/couch ridden all week, I decided to put some more work in this app idea I had during Config. It’s basically a private and automated version of Gowalla, inspired by the Moves app (for those who remember).

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Some details: using GPS data your phone already records, pulling locations from Apple Maps, tagging people from your address book, adding photos from your camera roll. All on-device.

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iOS has always been humble. Groundbreaking, but humble. Except for iOS 7 and iOS/macOS 26, both absolutely dripping with executive ego.

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Operating systems are ecosystems. They should invite and inspire experimentation so everyone from Apple to 3rd party designers can learn from each other and evolve the system (like has happened over the past decade), not prescribe a narrow vision.

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(I consider earlier skeuomorphic versions of iOS to be the rebellious teenage years where some mistakes were made but lots of valuable lessons were learned)

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I love the iPhone camera’s portrait mode, but feel like it’s a bit aggressive with the depth of field. However, opening the photo in edit mode and dialing it back to f8 usually results in something looking like it was shot with proper glass.

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It was so great getting to work with @maxvoltar.be on these! He did such an incredible job.

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Had a lot of fun designing some alternate app icons for @glass.photo, all done in @figma.com Draw! Read more here: glass.photo/highlights/a...

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Kicked off a reading spree on Christmas and just finished my 13th book (Dungeon Crawler Carl and Bobiverse series). Forced me to significantly reduce my compulsive after-work creative endeavors and gather inspiration and perspective.

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Gathered all of my non-work work in one place (to turn it into a website), and had AI review it. Ngl this is going on my LinkedIn. “You design objects people want to hold, and your aesthetic lives at the intersection of Swiss precision and skate-shop energy.”

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Holy hell why would anyone want an Android-based ereader?? Got the Boox Go 7 and sending it right back. The software is constantly fighting the operating system and the thing needs to boot every time you pick it up. My 8y old Kobo Aura One blows this thing out of the water.