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Why I like the Vision Pro
Recently there have been multiple articles published suggesting that Apple’s Vision Pro is a failed product: The funny thing is if you search on the title Vision Pro is dead, you will find articles and Reddit stories saying this since April 2024. Which is ludicrous since the Vision Pro only started shipping to customers in…
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Doing AI Right
I was looking through mastodon today and saw the following post – This got me thinking about the hype that’s been going on for the last two years around large language models and AI in general. What can AI’s do? Given this, do they really drive significant productivity? Can they make code that is bug…
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Greet Tracker Temporary Sale
In celebration of upcoming new iOS releases and other goodies, I am doing a temporary sale for Greet Tracker. This is the app that allows you to keep track of all the cards you send to people. A single purchase of $1.99 will give you access to Greet Tracker across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS!…
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Wasted Time Price Increase
I’ve had to increase the price of Wasted Time across all platforms to $0.99. Currently if you buy for one platform you have access across all (except for VisionOS). I am hoping to add a new feature for a fall launch!
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Greet Keeper – how it works
I realize that my design is not always intuitive so I decided to put together a simple (ha!) video of how my latest app works. The app is both simple and powerful. The basic premise is you have control of what types of cards (or events) you’d like to track. You create your own galleries…
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Greet Keeper for VisionOS Submitted
This year I plan on making sure that any app I work on is available on at least three Apple platforms. To that end, I have updated my Greet Keeper application, which tracks greeting cards, to run via SwiftUI on VisionOS. I know it doesn’t yet really take advantage of Spatial computing, but I wanted…
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WWDC 2024 Impressions and insights
As expected, WWDC 24 was all about AI. Of course we are talking about “Apple Intelligence”. This week is my yearly “education-vacation” and it has been overwhelming in the complexity of some of the sessions I have gone through. While most of the keynote was about cool new features and better integrations of App Intents…
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Open Sourcing Greeting Keeper
While my post about Greeting Keeper being available had somehow got stuck in draft, I am posting a second blog entry to talk about the challenges that the app has had and what I am trying to do about it. First, shortly after releasing the app, and buying the first copy myself, I put out…
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Greeting Keeper Released
Well, after writing, rewriting, refactoring, and replatforming for six year, I have finally released a personal project to the App Store. Greeting Keeper has gone thru UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, CloudKit, and SwiftData to become a pretty useful app. It does, however, have two major bugs, that crept in during the release, and I am trying…
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A VisionPro-ductive Week
It’s been a solid week now with the Apple Vision Pro. When I got it last Saturday, I provided a before and after view of the experience as part of my Weekly Podcasts Games At Work dot Biz (you can find it here Episode 452 – Before and After ). Since then, in order to…