mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I'm a Mac indie developer working on Hog Bay Software since around 2003. I live in Bangor, Maine.
My favorite Liquid Glass view. I keep it open all day!
• Distraction free "All Drafts" floating mid split!
• Perfect alignment of toolbar divider and split!
• Tricky compose button becomes less visible on mouse over!
• Cool fisheye effect where text blur/fade first makes text more noticeable at edge of fade.
Latest Bike 2.0 Preview (266), still work to do, but UI is filled in and it's starting to feel real. (And remember Command-. for nothing but outline)
https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-preview-266/6273
That wasn't a performance regression Jesse! You just forgot that you turned on power saving mode last week!
I recommend all macOS developers check out @marioguzman@mastodon.social's Layout Guidelines. I just came across them myself, really useful.
Generally I just eyeball these sorts of layouts and try to make them "feel" right, much nicer to have some actual rules and why's and how's.
For Swift developers.
Here's the approach I take to implement Bike Outliners query language. Along with some example code:
https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-outline-path-implementation/
In the latest Bike 2.0 (Preview 283) the calendar extension now offers a lot more flexibility in how calendar rows are generated. Thanks @rene@wolfen-nord.social for the inspiration.
https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-preview-283/6376
Bike > Settings > Extensions
Latest Bike 2.0 Preview release includes `bike` command line tool + `bike mcp` server, making Bike outlines easily (locally) accessible to AI agents. Testers + Feedback needed.
I think a particularly useful/interest feature of CLI is you can observer an outline query and get a stream of results as you edit the outline.
https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-preview-282/6369
Well this is impressive:
Regression: -46795%
Thank you to everyone who participated! If you posted and didn't get a response from me please direct message me... at times I got a bit overwhelmed and lost track of my responses :)
This has been on of my favorite happenings in 20+ years of indie software. Wonderful to see all of your hometowns.
This sale is now over, I will no longer be sending out coupon codes. You are still welcome to share a photo of your hometown.
Thank you!
Here's a picture from my hometown Bangor, Maine: