one step closer, the app compiles on my ipad
little over a week. The custom task manager compiles on the iPad now. The universe, indifferent as ever, offers no congratulations. The Mac UI makes me smile β genuinely, every time it loads, the specific small joy of a thing working the way you imagined it would when you were staring at the ceiling at 2am convincing yourself this was a good idea. That feeling is the whole reason you build anything. That feeling is a trap. A beautiful, worth-it trap.
The iPad, though. Thatβs going to be interesting.
I should have started with the iPad and scaled up. Mobile-first, the way every reasonable person has been saying for fifteen years. But the honest truth is I donβt want two apps. I want one thing, everywhere, a single coherent artifact that knows what it is regardless of what glass rectangle it finds itself on. Iβd go iPad-only if I could (the liturgical rightness of a slab on a table, a monkβs single illuminated page) but work demands bigger screens and real remote desktop and the particular fluorescent suffering of a full keyboard.
So here we are.
Funny thing: the iPad views arenβt picking up the liquid glass styling I spent actual real time. Not broken. Just absent as if like the iPad loaded an older intentions, skimmed them, and wandered off down a hallway that isn't actually there.
Easy enough to fix. Most of the work now is spatial: giving the UI room to breathe, to expand into itself, to remember what it is. I have the screen real estate.
I have the pixels. They shall be used.