The Train Throttle Blog

A note on Apple's liquid glass theme.

If you were hoping for liquid glass to be available on iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe's release, let me rip the bandaid right off. I won't be adopting it until iOS 27. The reasons are 2-fold:...

While doing absolutely nothing important, I ran across a video of someone who posted a video of the view of their layout from the cab of an engine.

That's pretty cool I thought to myself. For a while, another Withrottle app has had the ability to take photos from within the app. While it's a neat idea, I never really understood what it would bring to the experience that the default camera app couldn't.

But this, seeing the video - it was a "Eureka!" moment. The collaboration between myself and Tom of ChooChooVision started around 10pm, and by 3am I had a working prototype. This is the power of SwiftUI, a well architected application, and an awesome dev ;)...

It's time for a new feature drop! Custom Button Colors!

Seriously, they may be the most exciting things since sliced bread. Available to anyone who bought or subscribed to the app.

Til next time —...