On: Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

[internetter]

> aka for the rest of the world not using swiftUI

Fun fact: Apple doesn't let us use CAFilter in SwiftUI. It's a "them" privilege, and if we want it we need to do it ourselves*, just like you

* or obfuscate the code and continue in the great game of cat and mouse: https://github.com/aheze/VariableBlurView/blob/main/Sources/...

[devslovecoffee → internetter]

Wow, didn’t even know that. Guess I’ll update the post with this “fun” fact

[ivanjermakov → internetter]

Walled garden (with barbed wire)

[internetter → ivanjermakov]

While it’s not great to provide a UI library but not give developers all of the UI components, theoretically you could implement this yourself — so it’s the least of your concerns: https://boehs.org/node/private-apis