yes.

Love the aesthetic of your app, old school GUIs ftw!

Thanks! I'm hand drawing all the icons which is slow going, but I'm drawing them in Mojave Paint. Nothing better than eating your own dogfood.

Cool idea. I will check it out!

Thank you!

Unbelievable how bad the latest version of Pages looks against the oldest in the example. The "chrome" part - the buttons without labels, I have no idea what most of them would do and just glancing at them gives me a headache.

It's still impressing how the entire chrome can be collapsed into a single background bit of information, indicating a presence that may be attended to for interaction. In contrast, the newer interfaces seem to be made to reduce the attention span anyone may apply to the content. (It's really stress inducing.)

I'll say. It really shows what we have lost. I deeply miss old OS X.

It can be good to reduce chrome and focus on content, and have minimal UI's but there's a limit. Your UI still has to be discoverable, and intuitive. With everything hidden away it's unfriendly, particularly for new users.

I don't understand how decreasing the contrast between content and chrome helps you "focus" on content. The older design screenshot has better content clarity than the current design.

Sure, but why can't we have both? Sensible, usable defaults for new users, configurable views for everyone else. I'd like a version of Pages where I can turn off the toolbar, turn off the title bar, fullscreen the remaining window and focus purely on the document. That really shouldn't be difficult.

It would be extremely easy to have both. Tab to hide/show chrome and controls. The Affinity software does this, and it's intuitive and works flawlessly.

I presume the difficult question there, would be what you would expect users to do to engage with that mechanism on iOS (since many Apple first-party apps, e.g. Notes, are now designed once to run on macOS + iPadOS + iOS as essentially a single [responsive] UI.)

I'd say, if it doesn't make sense to have the equivalent feature on iOS, just leave it out.

Absolutely. It's totally doable. But Apple is swinging a bit too far into the minimal aesthetic right now.

Had fun not reading the article ;-)

Because macOS is meh?

It is really hard to do this with wifi available and willpower only.

Today's launch was canceled because of weather.

I recently tried an orange wine from a very good maker in Austria, with excellent whites and reds. I don't like the orange wine though, not my taste. I wonder why it is so popular.

Every orange wine is different, so one is not representative.

For example I like the funky, wild ones.

But besides the taste, one thing people tend to like about those wines, although it's not reserved to orange wines, is the natural manufacturing process that for example also often means less or even no added sulfites. For example my wife can't drink wine with a lots of sulfites, she gets stuffed nose immediately and a headache later. While I'm not that sensitive, even I can feel it's easier to process for my body.

I like it because it differs a lot from whites and reds and allows to get a different perspective on how wine can taste. While the difference within whites and within reds can be huge, the orange wine tastes like something completely alien, yet it can be very tasty.

here is a presentation by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkm-ZFlivyI

If it looks like I'm excited it's only because I am

It is infectious; keep up the optimism and joy!