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Alexander Käßner

@alexkaessner@mas.to View on mas.to

Product Designer & App Creator 🖌

UI Designer @datawrapper by day — pxlwaves lab by night — Previously at ‪@Sketch‬, Diagrams.app — FH Potsdam Alumnus — Creator of ipadmenu.study and macos-uikit.xyz

🧭 Website
alexkaessner.de
📱 My Apps
pxlwaves.com
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Spooky 👻 Daniel :sondrine: @daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com

New dwarf planet alert 🔭 rubinobservatory.org/news/rubi

2026 ED138 orbital arc (with annotations) NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Its First Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System | Rubin Observatory In the outer reaches of our Solar System, beyond the orbit of Pluto, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has spotted 2026 ED138 — a large, bright trans-Neptunian object that scientists have identified as a dwarf planet candidate. The observations were announced today by the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center (MPC). If confirmed, ED138 would be among the largest dwarf planets ever d

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Nathan Manceaux-Panot @Cykelero@mas.to

macOS menus get larger when invoked using touch

left: the Finder’s Go menu, looks normal right: same menus but items are taller. the content is the same (i.e. font sizes, etc) but there’s more vertical padding

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

RE: mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy

I got exactly the same vibes watching the reviews. And I love this part of it!

BasicAppleGuy @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social · open

It’s 2008 all over again: fun apps are back on the iPhone Duo.

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Nαtαshα :mastodon: @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

This is absolutely mad

r/recruitinghell u/Fast-Application5391 . 1h applied to my own company's job posting under a fake name. rejected in 6 minutes. I lead a team of nine. We've had a desperate need for a senior associate role since april and hr keeps telling me the pipeline was thin, nothing passing screening. So last month i made a new email, changed my name, tweaked the dates, and applied to my own req with essentially my own cv. The CV of the person who wrote the job description and brother i was auto-rejected in six minutes! Took a week to work out why. the filter was set to require React.js and my cv says React. that's it. that's the whole thing. a full stop. We have been rejecting every qualified applicant since april over punctuation, while i sat in weekly meetings being told the market was tough. if you've been getting instant rejections from places you're clearly qualified for, it is very possibly not you. Anyone else tested their own funnel? i'm now scared to look at the other two requirements

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

Apple has done some very smart things with some of its tiny AppKit controls when used via touch: they expand into a popup when interacted with. Think Music’s drag-and-hold volume slider, but for steppers and other micro buttons. I might even investigate this solution for some of the controls in Coppice for iPad

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Niki @nikitonsky@mastodon.online

MacBook Pro PRO led (PRO) pro PRO (PRO?) (PRO!)

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

@stroughtonsmith That would probably increase the price tag by at least 200$

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

It’s been ten years and they still haven’t figured out how to put Face ID in a MacBook Pro? What are we doing?

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

My colleague @jonathanmuth pointed out that if you google for “how many planets in the solar system”, my post about dwarf planets ranks among the first. Was not expecting that. 😅

Either way, if you haven’t checked it out, give it a read. It’s a fascinating topic 😉

datawrapper.de/blog/solar-syst

In this Weekly Chart, we rethink what we know about our planetary neighbors. Datawrapper Do we really know how many planets are in our solar system? | Datawrapper Blog In this Weekly Chart, we rethink what we know about our planetary neighbors.

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

@keir For me it’s not about that I pay. I use Ivory so many times a day that of course I want such an important app to feel modern and integrated into the latest OS design.

More so I’m just really curious what kind of UI/UX delight the Tapbot guys will bring to the liquid glass world. As they always do.

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

@talala Yeah, generally I’d agree. Considering the Tapbots team had to deal with private things, it’s also fully understandable. Hope it’s not hurting the business too much, especially now with it not even stretching large on the Duo.

Nevertheless, I was hoping that it was closer to being done by now. I still remember the teasing in WWDC 25’s keynote.

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Alexander Käßner @alexkaessner@mas.to

RE: tapbots.social/@ivory/11748480

Was wondering about the state of Ivory and its liquid glass update.

Seems like it’s going to be a big one. Though, as quoted in this thread will not come this year, but whenever it is ready. 🥲

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink: @ivory@tapbots.social · open

@dtm @tchambers Because it was originally built well over 10 years ago and so much has changed since then. It’s not just the design. The UX and the architecture behind it all is getting a much-needed overhaul and improvement. It’s going to be so much better, we can promise that.

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