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Our friend Sam wrote something nostalgic, relatable, and frankly beautiful about the new MacBook Neo. If you only have time to read one thing today, let it be this essay.

Brown shipping box with “Laptob” written in permanent marker on the side.

Got my mom a MacBook Neo and someone at ups wrote this on the box

Deep Dish Swift 2026 | April 12th to 14th A supreme Swift developer conference being served in Chicago, Illinois

Visit deepdishswift.com for tickets and details on all the other awesome guest speakers. We’d love to see you there! 🍕

Lickability partner @mbbischoff.com, and our project manager Jillian, will be at @deepdishswift.com in April! mb is giving a keynote titled “Transitions,” offering insights on major changes in tech, career shifts, and transitions in her own life.

Our Work with RevenueCat – Lickability A brief history of a likely partnership.

We’ve been getting a lot done lately, but realized we never stopped to write about our awesome partnership with @RevenueCat.com 😽

Read a little about our history and the work we’ve been doing for them here: lickability.com/blog/our-wor...

What’s more addictive than checking charts throughout the day? LIVE charts! 🤯 💞

Charts v3 provides real-time tracking on 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 charts, and we implemented it in @RevenueCat.com version 1.10! Update your app, or download here: apple.co/4guqAfm

Everyone’s got a good idea of what Apple will probably announce on Monday, but it got me thinking about how adorable old iPhone concepts and “leaks” used to be 😭

Too Much of a Good Thing: Scope and the Future of Apps – Lickability Now that we can do anything, why are we trying to do everything?

We got to thinking about what people want out of apps in the landscape of 2026, where everything tries to be an “everything app” and scope has more potential than ever to spiral out of control. 😵

Read our newest blog post from all of us at Lickability:

lickability.com/blog/too-muc...

Too Much of a Good Thing: Scope and the Future of Apps – Lickability Now that we can do anything, why are we trying to do everything?

We got to thinking about what people want out of apps in the landscape of 2026, where everything tries to be an “everything app” and scope has more potential than ever to spiral out of control. 😵

Read our newest blog post from all of us at Lickability:

lickability.com/blog/too-muc...

We’ll try to stay cautiously-optimistic, but we know how this has worked out for everyone who’s tried it before… 😓

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Vibe coding Nothing’s apps is fun, until you try to make them useful Nothing wants to make an ecosystem of AI-generated apps, but it has a long way to go.

This article by Robert Hart for The Verge really sums up the exciting potential frameworks like these have, and their inability to fully deliver (yet). Absolutely something worth keeping an eye on as this technology gets further refined, though! 😝

www.theverge.com/tech/876229/...

Essential Apps enters Beta Hey Community, The world is full of apps, but almost none of them are built around you. They’re designed for everyone, which often means they’re perfect f...

nothing.community/d/52739-esse...

This is a fun idea in theory (we love bespoke software!), but the scope is a too wide and the end results are too much of a novelty to earn the “software that adapts to you” description. “Tailor-made vibe-coded widgets” maybe? 👌

Gui Rambo (@inside.bsky.social) I know a thing or two about AirPods. App developer, security researcher. 🏳️‍🌈🧩 https://mastodon.social/@_inside

And also, a post on Mastodon from @inside.bsky.social:
mastodon.social/@_inside/116...

For a bit more, here is a blog post by @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy we found shared by @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on Mastodon: christiantietze.de/posts/2026/0...

“I’d love for someone to check me on that though, as I don’t know to what extent Xcode’s behaviors can now be controlled through MCP from these tools, because that could be enough to warrant using the 1st party integration for many tasks.” —Liberatore, Lickability Staff Engineer

“On the UI surrounding the models and agents (Codex, Cowork, etc.): I don’t have faith Apple will keep up with features as quickly as these companies release them.”

“I personally like the separation and un-integration from before, only because it implies continued access to bleeding-edge features as they release by companies that are aggressively competing in this space.”

The logo for Apple's Xcode with the text "Agents & Xcode 26.3"

Apple recently announced that their Xcode 26.3 update will focus on integrating agentic coding: nr.apple.com/DR7g7b2du1

We talked to our engineers, and collected some thoughts from other voices, to get a few perspectives on these changes. ⤵️

Reminding folks about some of the cool, free things our team has made while we’re currently working on some more exciting stuff to share with you soon. 😝

lickab.ly/b/markdown

Screenshot of Apple Music’s UI on their official Windows 10/11 client.

Screenshot of Apple Music’s UI on their official MacOS 26 client.

One of our team members just switched to Apple Music for streaming and noticed something about the official client for Windows: its surprisingly robust use of Microsoft’s Fluent UI to match the native design language of MacOS!

Who has other examples of cross-platform UIs that do a good job of adhering to their original design while having to fit into a new framework? Android → iOS? Windows → MacOS? Web App → App?

Screenshot of Apple Music’s UI on their official Windows 10/11 client.

Screenshot of Apple Music’s UI on their official MacOS 26 client.

One of our team members just switched to Apple Music for streaming and noticed something about the official client for Windows: its surprisingly robust use of Microsoft’s Fluent UI to match the native design language of MacOS!

Wanted to remind everyone of the effort one of our engineers went through, and to also shout-out an older (but still evergreen) blog post from one of our partners.

lickab.ly/tca

Can you tell we love TCA? 😉

P.S. - Some film photos taken by @mbbischoff.com 📸❤️

A list of businesses recognized by clutch.co, with Lickability's name highlighted and focused on.

Oh, right, we were so focused on kicking off 2026 that we forgot to mention we made it into Clutch’s top 1000 companies of 2025 😳 grow.clutch.co/clutch-1000-...

Shout-out to clutch.co for championing business transparency and advocating for clients! 👌

iOS UI Libraries We Love – Lickability 5 third-party libraries we use all the time

And if you wanted more inspiration, here are some of our favorite iOS UI Libraries: lickab.ly/ui-libraries

More from us soon! 🏃‍♀️

GitHub - samhenrigold/SwiftUIHelpers: Convenience initializers for SwiftUI views that Apple should have shipped. Convenience initializers for SwiftUI views that Apple should have shipped. - samhenrigold/SwiftUIHelpers

Happy Wednesday! Here’s a convenient set of ✨SwiftUI initializers✨ from friend of the team,
@samhenri.gold : github.com/samhenrigold...

Lickability team members Ashli, Jillian and mb making pasta.

Homemade pasta.

The finished product: homemade pasta, red sauce, cheese and infused oil.

The Lickability team hanging out after dinner!

We had our holiday party last week to start the new year on the right foot, and what better way to get together with (almost) the whole team than a pasta making class? 🍝👀❤️🔥

(Also, kudos to Chefs Paola and Laura from farinolio.com. We hope we were good students! 😅)

ok but seriously, where’s Aperture?

Weird, we don’t remember making this.. 🤔