A scholar commentary on the new breed of human, the “UX Designers”.

A scholar commentary on the new breed of human, the “UX Designers”.

It is Sunday, not a day for deep thought, so let’s keep it lighter…

https://uxdesign.cc/the-creatures-called-designers-1974b81d089b

OpenWhisk is an open source platform for serverless computing that works very well with Swift!

OpenWhisk is an open source platform for serverless computing that works very well with Swift!

2nd in a series of articles by Matthew Burke of Capital One, where he works with IBM Cloud, (cloud services infrastructure formerly known as Bluemix).

https://hackernoon.com/serverless-computing-with-swift-4fa27ab36161

First article: https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/serverless-computing-with-swift-f515ff052919

How did I miss this Kickstarted for a Roomba for the Garden.

How did I miss this Kickstarted for a Roomba for the Garden.

Designed by a Roomba engineer, Tertill is a solar-powered and weatherproof robot that weeds your garden every day., Shipping in May for $399!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQAFaU3fIw

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rorymackean/tertill-the-solar-powered-weeding-robot-for-home-g

Sales Link: https://www.tertill.com/product/tertill-weeding-robot/

Steve Wozniak debunks the Garage origin myth of Apple.

Steve Wozniak debunks the Garage origin myth of Apple.

Along with a lot of other tidbit, Steve talks about the early days of personal computers. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI

Designed to be free to all German primary schools students, Calliope is a small star shaped tiny computer.

Designed to be free to all German primary schools students, Calliope is a small star shaped tiny computer.

The hardware for $49 is impressive, but I am most intrigued that the programming language of choice is Swift!s

https://www.calliope.cc/en

Swift 5 has been released, enabling binary compatibility for all Apple apps and libraries.

Swift 5 has been released, enabling binary compatibility for all Apple apps and libraries.

Beside ABI, Swift 5 has new Standard Library data types (including Vectors), and support for dynamically callable types (interoperability with Python & JavaScript).

https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/

Paul Hudson Video explaining the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw4zf8gtqs

Apple unveils new game service for all their platforms (as well as Apple Credit card, new Video & New services)

Apple unveils new game service for all their platforms (as well as Apple Credit card, new Video & New services)

Why bother talking about anything else, everyone is watching Apple Event stream.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18280589/apple-arcade-gaming-subscription-release-date-pricing-features