(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 […]
Category: Personal – Software and IT
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 […]
Holiday Card App and other progress
So, I finally have had a few things slow down enough so I could do some more coding. I am working on two projects at once. The first is adding Siri support to Wasted Time v8.0 – this has been really fun, as I am learning about Siri Intents, changing the app to run without […]
Siri Intents and Wasted Time
This past weekend I was able to get Siri to start seeing Siri Shortcuts for Wasted time. I’ve not implemented the shortcuts themselves yet, but I am “donating” certain actions, so that when iOS12 launches this fall, you will be able to use your voice with Wasted Time. I am hoping that over the next […]
Looking for Testers
I am working this summer to add Siri Intents and Siri Shortcuts to Wasted Time this summer. To that end, I am looking for people who are running any version of the iOS 12 beta, who would like to be added to a TestFlight for testing out the new features. Right now I have updated […]