Thursday at WWDC ends with the “Bash”. This year the band was Weezer. I’ve liked their music in the past, and they were enjoyable. I didn’t stay for the entire show, since I was tired after an incredibly long day of really good sessions. Oh yeah, and I was carrying my book bag, which was […]
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WWDC Day Three (AKA Wednesday)
Today turned into a pretty productive day. After the problems of Monday and the recoveries of yesterday, I was looking forward to a day when I could just enjoy the sessions an and possibly take to the labs to figure things out. I began the day with a session on Sign-In with Apple. I am […]
WWDC Day Two – Continued
Well, the team at the install lab were awesome. I wish I had left the machine alone when it went belly up, for multiple reasons. One, I would have spent most of Monday night getting frustrated, I wouldn’t have lost any data, and I would have given them a problem to debug. Instead, I got […]
WWDC Day Two (early morning)
(7am Tuesday) There are a few things I forgot to mention yesterday: TestFlight updates: I use TestFlight to both test apps from others, and to test apps that I’ve written. The cool update is now you can have test flight ask for feedback. The way that this is supposed to work is, if the user […]
WWDC Day 1 – Awesome Woes
WWDC is designed for developers, and this year’s keynote didn’t miss. I arrived shortly after 6 am, and ended up pretty far back in the queue, but as always, Apple does a great job of moving every one thru. The four hour wait didn’t seem as along, and the discussions in the queue were fun […]
Tesla Autonomy Day (Day 1)
So today Tesla held their first Autonomy for analysts. They described their own customer neural network chip for self driving. Began in 2016, Dec. 2017 first chip from manufacturing , July 2018 – chip full production, Dec. 2018 – started to retrofit employee cars, March 2019 – model S and X added to new cars, […]
Conversation is not enough
In the last post I talked about how conversations are a powerful way of interacting with a computer. A conversation must have context and memory in order to enable this power. Simple commands and individual queries are good, but not sufficient to enable the UX of the future. Now let’s look at augmented reality (AR). […]
The power of conversations
When we think of personal assistants today, we think of call centers and home automation – “Hey Alexa – turn on the lights”, “I see that your phone number is 202-555-1212 – please press or say ‘1’ if you are calling from the number on your account”. This is not a conversation, this is a […]
UX of the Future
I’ve been talking about the idea of how our computer experiences will be changing for years over at my podcast – Game At Work dot Biz. Much of the time I’ve talked about this in fits ands starts, and as such I don’t think I’ve done a good enough job of explaining my thoughts in […]
Getting ready for Wasted Time V8.0
This summer has been a ton of fun learning how to address SiriKit in WastedTime. The last piece I have been working on is changing the UI to leverage Reactive Swift – AKA RxSwift. This will (hopefully) allow you to start a meeting on your HomePod and then open the app on your iPhone or […]