Husband, Father, Cofounder of Morel Technology and Senior Software Engineer at Very Good Ventures
SwiftUI often feels like an embodiment of Alan Kay’s: “Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible”
It took quite a bit of head-scratching to get this to work, but I was eventually able to get three different ScrollViews (each with a differently scaled chart in them) to synchronously scroll in real-time w/ backwards compatibility to iOS 17 Phew… 😮💨
Though on mornings like this I do wish more stuff was in the “Simple Things" bucket rather than the “Complex Things” bucket.
I think there may be some real drawbacks turning “the media” into “whoever among you can get the most attention at any given moment.”
I sincerely cannot understand why otherwise normal and thoughtful people/organizations continue to patronize X/Twitter. I literally quit my job as an exec at Twitter when it became clear Musk would take over the company, and the level of ineptitude and noxiousness today has dramatically exceeded what I thought would have been possible at the time.
Not sure why I ever spent any energy coming up with clever or weird things to toot. There’s already so much. It’s much easier to be a booster.
This week we recommend some TV shows, differentiate between types of vaporware, and break down the new iPad mini and Amazon Kindles. Then, Myke and Jason try to predict exactly what Apple might announce later this month.
https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/534
Upgrade+: What we didn't pick. (Get longer, ad-free episodes at http://getupgradeplus.com)
Multiple videos are now documenting North Korean troops at the Sergievsky Training Ground in Primorsky Krai, Russia.
In this video the soldiers are seen being equipped with Russian equipment. Other videos show them training outside.
This is World War II all over again — the longer we wait, the worse a threat we are dealing with.
For nearly a thousand days, our politicians have been drinking coffee and finding excuses not to decisively end this war. And now Ukraine is facing two armies.
Augmented reality screens are a feature, not a product https://www.computerworld.com/article/3564762/augmented-reality-screens-are-a-feature-not-a-product.html
How to build a low-tech internet - Kris De Decker, et al
I just read this book/collection of articles from Low-tech Magazine, and it's a fascinating look at their solar-powered web server, the optical telegraph, compressed air energy storage, and more.
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Links and more pics 👇
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Maybe think of my iPhone 16 review as more of a series of short essays written after a few weeks of using the new models.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/10/iphone-16-pro-review-control-before-intelligence/
The podcasts generated by Google’s NotebookLM service are “surprisingly effective”. (Whether this says more about the current state of podcasts or AI is an open question…) https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/notebooklm-audio-overview/
Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times. 0% of its original phrases remain.
if you are a dev involved with #flutter the very good ventures engineering docs are such a treasure:
https://engineering.verygood.ventures/engineering/philosophy/
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The road to a million continues…
I wrote a benchmark of game engine performance primarily geared towards the types of 2D games that are popular these days.
Here are the results for Flutter, Flame, Unity and Godot. It's a long read with many caveats, so buckle up.
Here:
https://filiph.net/text/benchmarking-flutter-flame-unity-godot.html
Just a reminder: we don’t “curate” the wallpapers in #WallarooApp we *create* them. By hand. In multiple formats tailored to each device they’re available on - iPhone, iPad and Mac. Often with multiple style and color variants per release. We don’t use AI, don’t serve you ads, don’t collect or sell your data. Ever.
New wallpapers every week by real, human artists.
Wallaroo is free to download and try - https://wallaroo.app
it’s been years and i still don’t know what a quaternion is
Widgetsmith uses the new customization options in iOS 18 to dramatically expand the range of aesthetics possible. This is built around the addition of Action Widgets which allow you to perform a variety of options when tapped, including opening apps, playing music, running shortcuts or calling contacts.
You can customize every aspect of the display of these actions to radically change your home screen. Or you can use them in the Control Center for pervasive access.
@lapcatsoftware It would be so much nicer to move to '24.
