Light Switch in a Dark Room
We're over a decade into the industry's voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn't feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an interface that is not stable or discoverable.
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Inner Workings
If I complain that modern software is too generic and boring, I should take my own advice and try something fun and borderline silly.
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It’s not about the 30 percent
In 2021, I received a cold email from an Apple director. They wanted to arrange a video call to learn more about developers' opinions of the App Store.
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Break the Build On Purpose
Isaac Halvorson asked: "What strategies do you use for quickly getting back into the flow and picking up where you left off?" Here's a trick I started doing years ago.
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Because what the world needs is one more post about their initial reactions to using Vision Pro, here’s mine.
What follows are questions a few developer friends have been asking me via text message this weekend and my (slightly edited) replies. (I'm mostly writing this so Future Me™️ can look back at my first thoughts in ten years.)
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