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Kyle Howells

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Kyle Howells

@Freerunnering

iOS Developer since iOS 3 🏂🧗🏻‍♂️📷 [email protected] iOS Lead at @perdiem

ikyle.me

Joined September 2009

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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 12
Wrote a guide on how to setup this local coding agent on macOS. "Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent." ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-…
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 12
This actually makes Gemma 4 26B-4A usable for a coding agent @ 72tk/s on my MacBook Pro M1 Max. This video is realtime, running completely locally.
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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Apr 1, 2019
I love this iPad multitasking concept! Pro Multitasking - Finder for iPad Concept by Daniel Korpai | Dribbble dribbble.com/shots/6267421-…
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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 7, 2022
How to tell macOS isn't a priority anymore. Before: After:
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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Apr 19, 2019
Something easy to forget about Twitter for iPad is it wasn't just the sliding panels design, it has some of the best gestures and nice little interactions of any app I've used. x.com/Freerunnering/…
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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Apr 17, 2019
Periodic reminder that the original Twitter for iPad was one of the best iPad app UIs ever released.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 24, 2020
I am really going to miss having actually usable icons with color I can easily see when I update. This design is such a massive regressive I'm staggered.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Mar 2, 2019
I find it ironic we went from beautiful colourful intricate UI to flat empty white screens at the same time our displays increased massively in quality and colour gambit.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Sep 28, 2014
My MacBook Pro (2010) scores 1340 and 2284 on Geekbench. My iPhone 6 scores 1605 & 2870
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 28, 2020
The more I think about this design failure the more I want to write an article explaining some of the biology behind how our eyes work, how we are mostly blind most of the time, our vision is a blurry mess and why that makes this such an objectively terrible design change.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jun 24, 2020
I am really going to miss having actually usable icons with color I can easily see when I update. This design is such a massive regressive I'm staggered.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jul 2, 2022
New blog post: Creating Cool UI - Morphing Between Different Icon Shapes And Learning About Metaballs ikyle.me/blog/2022/crea…
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Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Apr 17, 2019
Periodic reminder that the original Twitter for iPad was one of the best iPad app UIs ever released.
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Apr 23, 2019
Apple to Mac Developers: "Make your apps work in this restrictive sandbox even our apps won't support" *Electron appears* "Now add developer ID signing" "Now use this slow approval process even outside the AppStore" "Hey why is Electron taking over, where are the native apps?"
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Aug 30, 2020
I love this trick to use an ObjC block with -target:action: methods. I can't remember if this is actually public API or not though?
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Dec 20, 2017
Wanted for AirPods 2: a 3G connected case with Find My AirPods Unrelated: I’ve lost my AirPods...
Kyle Howells
@Freerunnering
Jul 1, 2020
Replying to @MisaelLandero
Create ObjC project, add a SwiftUI view (accept creating an ObjC bridging header), #import the UIViewController subclass, change the SwiftUI view to only be a wrapped UIViewController. ✅ Now open a 2 panel Xcode layout, ObjC file on left, SwiftUI shim file on the right.