Could AR reduce Reality instead of Adding To It

Jan Horský makes a good argument for the use of AR as a way to improve life by reducing distractions.

https://blog.infinite.cz/reduced-reality-the-other-way-of-modifying-reality-cff07a47dae9

RayWenderlich's Conference is coming April 5th-8th, 2018

Who needs WWDC on the West Coast, when you have RWDevCon in Northern Virginia!

https://www.rwdevcon.com

A well thought out explanation of why NOT to use PDF within iOS Apps

Bjango explains the disadvantages of replacing PNG with PDF, as well as the few cases where it is a good idea.  Excellent!

https://bjango.com/articles/idontusepdfs/

Beta of ARKit 1.5 examples showing what can be done with vertical surfaces.

9to5Mac explains, and provides videos to demo, the impact of the new ARKit 1.5 which shipped with iOS 11.3 beta.  

https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/01/arkit-1-5-improvements-ios-11-3/

Mac Terminal program allows a variety of tricks, here are some useful ones.

Kenny Hemphill of MacWorld UK has compiled a list of 30 Terminal tricks, useful for general Mac users as well as developers.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/mac-terminal-projects-tutorial-3613813/

Programmatically creating NSAttributeStrings suddenly got a lot easier!

Independent developer Andre Sinaka has created Transformer, a free web-based WYSIWYG rich text editor that generates the matching Swift & Objective-C code. 

https://andresinaka.github.io/Transformer

Home Automation may finally be here, but what can you use it for?

Here is a list by Mikah Sargent from iMore giving 9 common sense ideas of what would actually be useful in Home Automation. 

https://www.imore.com/common-sense-home-automations-you-must-try