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Dec 14, 2020

My animation framework is now live! ✨ Introducing Motion, a SIMD-powered animation framework written purely in Swift, designed for making physically-modeled, gesturally-driven user interfaces, animations, and interactions. github.com/b3ll/Motion Let me know what you think :)

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Animation engine for gesturally-driven user interfaces, animations, and interactions on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. - GitHub - b3ll/Motion: Animation engine for gesturally-driven user interfaces, animati...

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I really want the secret Apple Watch

@zats

was showing off at Swift Heroes

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@twannl

May 2

Introducing the Magnifier Color Picker 🎨 🖌️ Magnify to a color 🛠️ Copy to SwiftUI Color, NSColor, or UIColor 🚀 Paste, build, and continue development New in

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9to5Mac

@9to5mac

Apr 28

This app lets you pin shortcuts to your favorite albums right to your iPhone's Home Screen 9to5mac.com/2023/04/28/app by @ChanceHMiller

Apr 24

1.0.5 also adds some rubberbanding to give things a bit more weight

1.0.5 of Albums is out and fixes a weird sync issue where you could get duplicate albums. It also adds an "Album of the Day" widget, that'll randomly show something in your collection each day :D

Got to collaborate with

to create the box of records app icon for his new app, Albums: Music Shortcuts. apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-

Apr 21

There’s still a lot of things I have planned (and a few bugs to fix 😇), but it's feeling great, so let me know what you think! I’m happy this is finally out and excited to see how people use it, as well as advancements in iOS 17 to add even more stuff to it in the future!

There’s a button to give feedback in the help section, as well as instructions if widgets are confusing (spoiler: they are!), so I really hope iOS improves the onboarding for that (seriously, so many people I spoke with had *no* idea they could add widgets).

Also, the flip was simultaneously inspired by flipping over a record to check out the tracklist as well as the flip that SpringBoard uses to configure widgets.

It uses loads of other tricks to make the animations as smooth as possible with Pro Motion displays. It also features sync with CoreData via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer, which surprisingly wasn’t that bad at all.

The app is mostly UIKit, however I made extensive use of SwiftUI views all over the place via real cool tech like UIHostingConfiguration (thank you

@smileyborg

and team!!). Using this, the collection view cells *are* the widgets 🙂

It supports Apple Music and Spotify (for now), with others planned as wanted, as well as the potential for linking to local apps too (Dopper?).

This was kinda tricky to reimplement, one of hardest parts being figuring out the math to make the albums never clip into one another as well as land on an album perfectly when you flick. Also, drop shadows / edge glows are back!

The app also brings back a lot of interactions and animations I’ve missed, including: Cover Flow! All of them were built with Motion (github.com/b3ll/Motion) and if you were paying close attention, a lot of the recent commits were made to support this app!

Some albums even have gapless playback (remember that from iTunes?) and bridges that get completely lost, which aid in telling the story the artist had in mind.

Each album released by an artist is often a checkpoint in their career; often allowing you to experience how their tastes / influences changed from album to album. Playlists like "This is

@ISO50

" can fail to describe the feel that Dive brings vs. something like Epoch.

… and while convenient, causes people to miss out on experiencing albums as a whole and remembering them. A thoughtful decision to play Lover has a lot more emotional attachment than "Hey Siri, play Country / Pop", if you know what I mean.

This app was made as a labour of love and built to restore some of the feelings you get from opening a record and playing it. A lot of streaming music apps nowadays have a huge emphasis on playing individual tracks or creating playlists…

As soon as I saw some of the early sketches from him, I knew it was perfect. I’ll leave the details for the icon for him to share😉 Thank you for making such a wonderful icon, it has genuinely inspired and pushed me to make sure the app feels well enough to do it justice.

I might be a tad biased, but the icon

@matthewskiles

made in particular is one of my favourite icons I’ve ever seen. It legitimately makes me so happy anytime I see it and ranks up there my other favourites like Coda’s Leaf and Sequel Pro’s Pancake Stack.

's The Slow Rush was the first record I ever bought and is very special to me (for a multitude of reasons), and as such it felt very fitting to inspire a lot of the reasons why I made this app.

I found myself appreciating the albums themselves a lot more and rediscovering parts of them that I missed through my various 50+ plays on Spotify.

I started collecting records a few years ago, and while they are a lot of effort to play (open it up, carefully put it down, spin up the turntable, put the needle down, do it all again 15 minutes later because lol you only get 3 tracks!), but they're worth it.

Introducing Albums: Music Shortcuts Albums is an app that allows you to create and stylize shortcuts to your favourite music albums on your Home Screen. Promo Video: youtube.com/watch?v=GqFXXF App Store (it’s free!): apps.apple.com/us/app/albums- App icon by

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The

iOS app is so much fun. I love how satisfying the buttons are to press in the onboarding

💜🫡

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Tom Warren

@tomwarren

Mar 17

I can't believe Lance Reddick is gone. The world has lost an absolute legend. Farewell, commander

Watch Chris Rock: Selective Outrage | Netflix Official Site

Mar 8

Working on an app that helps me learn music by ear, and I made it Strand themed to match the song I'm learning from the Lightfall OST called All That Matters :D open.spotify.com/track/6MKPVABy #Destiny2 #Destiny2Art #AOTW #MOTW

The first Netflix live event is launching tonight at 7PM PST! I worked alongside a bunch of wonderful coworkers (*waves at*

@_Caro_N

) to help build the Live experience both on iOS and tvOS! Hope you enjoy! :D netflix.com/tudum/articles #ChrisRockLive

LIVE today on Netflix: Chris Rock! A project my colleagues and me worked on really hard the past months. I hope you enjoy it! 🤗 Check out “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” on Netflix

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Chris Rock delivers an electric stand-up set on non-racist yoga pants, spoiling his kids, the Kardashians and his thoughts on the Will Smith fiasco.

Jan 23

Big same, mastodon.social/@b3ll

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John Siracusa

@siracusa

Jan 22

The ban on third-party Twitter clients has severely impaired my ability to read (or even see) all mentions/replies directed at this account. Please consider following mastodon.social/@siracusa on Mastodon instead.

Bring back skeuomorphism and colours. Which control has changed here, and from which state to which?

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😍😍😍 Ok now I'm 1000% more likely to use

@rocketsim_app

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@twannl

I could obviously not let @b3ll inspire me without taking that serious. @rocketsim_app 9.1 starts to look more like a 10.0 update

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And the party goes on! I had the pleasure of creating the icon for Retro Sketch! Be sure to try it out, because it's super fun! 🕹️🖊️ #MadeWithSketch

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François

@frboulais

Jan 19

Etch a Sketch, on your iPhone (or iPad)!

After a fun week-end of SwiftUI & PencilKit, and with the great help of @yannicklu, I'm happy to release a new app : Retro Sketch.

apple.co/3WkOCyR

I was a bit underwhelmed with the new HomePod at first but I have to say the new Jazz color is definitely growing on me

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One of my favourite apps :(

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John Siracusa

@siracusa

Twitterrific is probably the app I’ve used the most in the past 16 years. I’ve never read Twitter without it.

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John Siracusa

@siracusa