Gavin Anderegg

@gavin

Freelance digital consultant/developer, data nerd, Apple fan, gaming geek, CMS critic, F1 enjoyer. Halifax, Nova Scotia. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 Website:

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Gavin Anderegg@gavin· 28d

Here's an example:

A rectangle drawn over roughly downtown Halifax.

A results screen showing a more complex shape that doesn't match the rectangle I drew in the previous screen.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jun 28

I'm am so looking forward to the weird "rounded pane of glass" sidebar to go away. These look great, colour-wise, but I am so happy that this jank will be gone in a few months!

An image highlighting the discontinuity caused by the current sidebar design in Tahoe. There's an obvious divide between the main window area and the sidebar, and then then actual sidebar (in a different colour) is layered on top. It creates a strange gap between the area where the sidebar lives and the actual sidebar content.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· May 16

Forza Horizon 6 is an amazing game, and I'm really enjoying it. However, it appears Japan can be a bit… insubstantial at times. (I was going for the collectable that popped up on the mini-map here, not just veering off the road for no reason).

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· May 6

Charlie Brown to kick football held by Lucy. Stock futures way up based on renewed hopes.

A screenshot of Yahoo! Finance showing S&P 500 Futures data. The price has risen sharply starting around 05:00 ET based on news of an Iran peace deal.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· May 5

Onomatopoeic noises in your own language seem obvious and reasonable. In other languages, they can lead you to believe that the speaker is completely unhinged from reality. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Kr...

English: Snap! Crackle! Pop!
Danish: Pif! Paf! Puf!
Swedish: Piff! Paff! Puff!
German: Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!
Spanish: Pim! Pam! Pum!
Finnish: Riks! Raks! Poks!
French: Cric! Crac! Croc!
Dutch: Pif! Paf! Pof!
Afrikaans: Knap! Knetter! Knak!
Belgium: Poos! Pas! Pes!

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Apr 28

A screenshot of the host of Megarace. A thin man in an oversized blue sports jacked with a shiny red button-up shirt and purple tie on. His mouth is wide, shouting. His eyes crazed. What a legend.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 30

Two more Liquid Glass fixes in macOS 26.4 https://anderegg.ca/2026/03/30/two-more-liquid-glass-fixes-in-macos-264

A screenshot of a blank window corner in macOS Tahoe 26.4. A mouse pointer is showing the window resize icon, and the cursor is positioned well inside the window. You can also see that the scrollbar is all the way at the bottom, but the bottom is above the corner radius. This means that it's no longer showing under the window corner as in previous versions.

A screenshot of another corner of a blank window in macOS Tahoe 26.4. This one has a smaller radius than the one above. The scroll bar is this time at the very bottom, and clips under the corner even though the corner is smaller.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

Settings in macOS and iPadOS have had a tweak to how the Liquid Glass "Search" element works. It now is much more opaque, leading to fewer instances where it can be completely unreadable. There are still places where this can happen, but Apple seems to be fixing them as people complain.

A screenshot of the Search element in macOS 26.4. In previous versions of the 26 OSs, the "Search" text in that element would be a blurry mess because it's currently overlapping other text below it. Here it's very readable.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

Safari in macOS 26.4 also got a tweak to how its tabs work. They now have a Liquid Glass effect and a better animation when "torn off". I really dislike 26's tab design, but at least this is more consistent with the rest of the OSs.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

On iPadOS 26.4 in Safari, PDFs in mostly remove the UI background. As with many Liquid Glass changes, it's hard to tell if this is a bug or not. It's an interesting effect when just looking at a screenshot, but in practice, I find this incredibly distracting.

A screenshot of the Safari in iPadOS 26.4 showing a PDF of the rules to the board game "Innovation" (4th edition). The top UI has a clear but blurred background instead of the usual mostly opaque background. This seems to only happen when viewing PDFs, and only on iPadOS.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

Not surprising, but these issues exist on iPadOS as well. Swiping between dark/light content will confuse the UI until you tap somewhere on the screen.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

Seems Safari-specific, but on a light-background page with the UI over darker content, you'll see a white fringe added around the UI. I don't know what problem this is solving, and it doesn't seem needed. Isn't the point of Liquid Glass that you can "see more of your content"?

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 29

I'm back on my Liquid Glass posting. First up, a mixed bag. in iOS 26.4, Liquid Glass is much better about respecting your dark/light mode choice as long as you're in Tinted mode. Great! The bad news is that it's even more flickery than before in places. Especially in Safari.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 13

Happy π day eve, everyone!

A photo of a plate of chicken and leak pie with chips from The Henry House in Halifax, NS.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Mar 12

Nice letter from Jin Coole on Apple's 50th. www.apple.com/50-years-of-...

Tim Cook's signature, which looks a lot like "Jin Coole".

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Feb 11

I know it's the smallest thing in the world right now, but I continue to be flummoxed by the terribly inconsistent window corner radii in macOS Tahoe. Today's bought of argh was brought on by Chrome (2nd from top) updating to v. 145 and still having a forth radius size I haven't seen elsewhere.

A screenshot of four overlapping windows in macOS Tahoe. At the top is Safari with the massive window corners that most Apple app have. Second is Google Chrome, which has a slightly smaller corner that I haven't seen other apps use. Then is Outlook with a slightly smaller corner, and finally a Photoshop image window with the smallest corner — but one that's still slightly larger than it was before Tahoe. Red lines denote where the corners end.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 26

It would be amazing if Apple could hire even one designer back from wherever they've gone. #liquidglass #macostahoe

A screenshot of the bottom of Apple Music on macOS Tahoe. If you mouse over the play UI (which is at the bottom no for no good reason than I can figure), everything gets blurred. Once you do that, you get to see the playtime. I can't imagine any reason you might want to see that otherwise. Anyway, once you're in this view, everything else is blurred such that you can't make it out. The person who designed this hasn't used this app before, and is likely an intergalactic alien who is here to degrade the happiness of everyone living on this planet.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 20

A thing I hear in praise of Liquid Glass is: "at least it's not flat". I agree that it's nice for buttons to have more definition, but that's only true when 1–2 of them share the same "blob". The buttons themselves are still flat. You can go nuts with this in Safari, and I get a chuckle out of it.

A screenshot of a blank Safari window in macOS Tahoe. The title bar includes a Liquid Glass blob containing 13 flat buttons.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 20

Moving on to Tahoe, the size of window's corner seems chosen at random. There are at least three different sizes a window's corner can be. I have no idea how this is considered OK.

A screenshot of six windows stacked on top of each other in macOS Tahoe. The image shows the top-left corner of each window. There are three different sizes of window radius shown.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 20

I love the new windowing mode in iPadOS 26, but the massively rounded window corners look so silly. I get that they're trying to ape the rounded corners of the hardware (though they don't match it), but I find it hilarious that they need to shrink if you get them near the inner corner of the device.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 20

While we're on the subject, I really dislike how iOS 26 handles the status bar. Content under it is often faded only the tiniest amount. I find it really distracting.

Another screenshot of the Simulator running iOS 26. This time a page is shown with content scrolling under the status bar at the top of the phone. The content is made slightly less opaque, but is still very legible. It makes reading the contents of the status bar difficult.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 20

Liquid Glass works best on iOS, but even there it feels half-baked. Here's one thing I keep encountering (shown in the Simulator app using aniPhone 17 Pro on iOS 26.2).

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jan 12

Well crap.

The Software Update screen in macOS Sequoia 15.7.3. The screen shows that an update to macOS Tahoe 26.2 is available.

A red badge on my System Settings icon in the dock. This wasn't here yesterday.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Oct 29

The new icon doesn't respect dark mode on iOS 18, and really sticks out. I assume the answer is probably "upgrade your OS" (I really don't want to), but is there a chance of a dark-mode friendly version for the Liquid Glass averse?

A cropped image of a set of eight icons on an iPhone home screen. All the icons have a black background except for the new Bluesky icon, which is has a bright blue background.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Oct 16

@bskycheck.com Not sure if this is intentional, but it looks like someone set a future time for their account creation and it's messing things up.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Oct 14

Like the autumn leaves Microsoft icons transform Their colours vibrant

The new OneDrive icon for macOS. It's like a three-layer blue cloud one a white background. The lightest layer of blue is in front, with the darkest layer in the back. There some drop-shadow between the layers, but none between the icon and the white background.

The new Teams icon for macOS. Imagine a piece of paper that's three times longer than it is wide. Bow that very loosely in half, such that the tops mostly line up, but there's about a third a length of slack between them. Above each end, there's a shaded purple circle. The whole thing looks like two "people icons" facing each other, but they're weirdly conjoined. In front of the closes person icon is a squirqle with a "T" in it.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Sep 24

@tomwarren.co.uk Hi! I really enjoy your Notepad newsletter, but I always see these weird "ads" in it. Is this a placeholder for a future ad spot? Is it my email client preventing a real ad from being served? It's always the same one, and it links to the Wikipedia page for Limonene. Thanks!

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Aug 21

@bnewbold.net I just saw this "Invalid Handle" error on Polygon's account (did:plc:ft4gwdn3b552cg4eidqfz7gm). Is there a way in the web UI to mention a user in this state? I wanted to let them know that they likely just need to re-confirm their domain setup. Thanks!

A screenshot of Bluesky's web UI on the page for Polygon.com's user account. Under their user icon and the word "Polygon" is an error message saying "Invalid Handle".

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Aug 2

The more I look at this, the crazier it gets. The wrap is the obvious bit, but those rear tires? Also, electric conversion? I'd love to learn more about this thing. www.carsonexports.com/en/used-inve...

A 1972 VW Beatle in a psychedelic rainbow wrap. The rear tires are much larger than the front. It's being shown off in a well-lit garage.

Gavin Anderegg@gavin· Jul 15

Great timing! Some choice stories that appeared in my RSS reader this morning. I guess they’re backdating them so they don’t show up on the front page? They all read like AI generated ads.