Dan Bricklin @danb@social.cleverlibre.org
One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
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Prediction: Face computers like Apple's Vision Pro will become a norm -- if not the norm -- for that most mundane but essential of tasks: Office work.
For all Apple's talk of "spatial computing," the discoveries of the early adopter's of Apple's take on them, all point to their primary utility being mundane but -- at the right weight and price point -- subtly transformative:
They'll supplant the many screens we rely on already.
my latest:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apples-new-face-computer-is-for-work-788e2750
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Piano: Flowing Tiles
"Interactive Note Display: Experience the thrill of a game-like environment as notes float onto your piano, guiding you through each song.”
I love how it calibrates where your piano keys are positioned without having access to the camera.
With the news that Microsoft will have lots of Office ready on Day 1 for Vision Pro, there are probably lots of other surprises we'll find in the coming days and weeks. If you are an iOS developer and thinking about Vision Pro, or just looking to get the viewpoint of a developer making something for it, it's worth reading Paul Hudson's (https://mastodon.social/@twostraws) blog post "Shipping a visionOS app for launch". https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/265/shipping-a-visionos-app-for-launch (A hand-driven synthesizer.)
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I built a visionOS app, and it's been approved in time for launch on Friday. It's called Spatial Symphony, and it's a synthesizer controlled entirely through hand gestures 🤌 I wrote about building the prototype, attending Apple's labs, and more here: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/265/shipping-a-visionos-app-for-launch
@stroughtonsmith Didn’t you need a Lisa to develop for the Mac at first?
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The first release of Internet Explorer (1995) is closer in time to the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969) than now.
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If you missed the livestream of Insanely Great last night, it’s up on the CHM YouTube channel already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl__10euTRo
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I'm delighted to be able to announce that @ismh has started working with me on my apps.
Bringing someone on isn't something I took lightly, but I have recently been really struck by how the way I had viewed being a "true indie" wasn't serving me. Instead, I now have a mindset of “Independent as in Freedom, not Independent as in Alone”, which I think will serve me (and my customers) much better into the future.
https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2024/01/23/independent-as-in-freedom/
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All the amazing visionOS apps we've seen are pretty much 1:1 Microsoft's Hololens demos from 2016, but backed by a real OS, SDK and ecosystem. No smoke and mirrors, no 'concepts’, no 'Contoso’. Apple doesn't have to fake it.
Execution is everything.
@lauren I worked there starting the fall of 1973. It had been a place where they worked on wool before DEC came. Made mostly of wood. Floor boards right there, not always straight. Floors didn't always line up. A real maze. Such as wonderful place compared to the sterile other buildings I moved to (and then back to the Mill). Good place to go after the maze of buildings at MIT. Later Monster.com moved in to part of it. Thanks for remembering! https://www.decconnection.org/documents/A%20History%20of%20The%20Mill%209-20161.pdf
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On this day forty years ago, the Apple “1984” ad ran on television for the first time.
At 1:00 am.
In the sign-off slot before broadcasting ended for the night.
On station KMTV in Twin Falls, ID.
For a total airing cost of $10 (compared to the $80,000 cost of airing it on 1/22/84 during the Super Bowl)
The 1983 premiere qualified it for the 1984 Clio awards. It lost out to Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef?”
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🥽 Prediction: #VisionPro will REQUIRE an in-store visit—for a time—to give the 1st users/reviewers the best experience.
Some % of owners will have the wrong fit, fail to follow instructions, or simply misunderstand what they’re buying. They may not even know there’s a problem!
Experiences are likely better with a store visit, making a better launch for a new platform.
Then at some point I think they’ll open up to full-remote orders.
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This is a great read by @tvaziri on the myth of movies only using practical effects:
http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-most-egregious-example-of-we-didnt.html
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I remember listening to @lisamelton talk about the determination the early Safari team had in not committing any code that had any performance regressions, no matter how small.
I miss that Apple.
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Exciting news for Firefox users on Android! 📱
Get ready for the debut of open extensions on Firefox for Android on December 14th.
But guess what? You don't have to wait!
Check out this blog post to get a sneak peek today: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-on-firefox-for-android-debut-december-14-but-you-can-get-a-sneak-peek-today/
@shanselman Scott: Your podcasts are great, and the people you continually get have been great. I loved the one I listened to this morning on cloud engineering and more. I routinely recommend them to others. I guess not everybody learns how the "who's who" becomes one (though not being one doesn't mean you don't have very valuable things to teach). One way is being chosen to be on your podcast since you get such wonderful people.
@glennf Seems prudent to mask now at an event with lots of indoor face-to-face. So many I know personally are getting it in the last few weeks for the first time. Good you didn't get it from your kid.
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DPReview, a site that nearly faced a link rot crisis of its own, is now publishing some really smart analysis on the lacking permanence of the internet era. https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/0517674260/web-rot-is-erasing-our-images-and-videos
One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
