A blog about things that interest me.
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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…