WWDC 2026 Wish List
Michael on 07 Jun 2026
WWDC is due to start tomorrow and I wanted to continue my wish list tradition. But the truth is that I am not as excited as I was about the developer world. Permit me some self-indulgence as I offer a different take for this year’s list.
Less anxiety, more motivation
2025 was the year that I discovered, at 52, that I was autistic. It explains, perhaps not everything, but a lot. A LOT. My first wish is that post-WWDC I can find ways to overcome my anxiety and remain motivated to keep working on apps. I can be everything from hyper-focused to static, and this has meant that sometimes I will be able to release things, and sometimes I can’t get off the sofa. My diagnosis is something that has taken a while to process and come to terms with, but I am hoping that I can get a better handle on myself and how I function this year.
Friends
My crippling anxiety and general weirdness (I consider this awesome and am proudly weird, no self-shade here) have made friendships almost non-existent for me. I would like to try and change that, but I find it depressingly difficult. Still, post-WWDC I am hoping that I can find more friends in this community to share the journey with.
Community
Much is made of how cool the iOS/Apple dev community, yet despite following it for years both on Twitter and Mastodon I feel disconnected from it. If you’ve read this far, it’ll be obvious why, so my wish is that I can become more a part of the community. I am not sure what that means yet, but I need to stop my fear from holding me back.
I feel this list is self-indulgent and that makes me uncomfortable, but also most things in my life do, and I need to try to overcome that. Hence the list. Fuck it, yeah?
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