Hiatus for Tech Posting due to Medical issue.

The good news is I do not have COVID; the bad news is I have pneumonia. I will be back to daily postings next week.

Everyone uses the pattern for throwing errors that they copied from somewhere else, Sarunw shows some different ways.

Everyone uses the pattern for throwing errors that they copied from somewhere else, Sarunw shows some different ways.

I especially like the “where” clause.

https://sarunw.com/posts/different-ways-to-catch-throwing-errors-in-swift/

Boston Dynamics has released some more incredible videos of this robots, including some bloopers.

Boston Dynamics has released some more incredible videos of this robots, including some bloopers.

What amazed me is that even their trips and falls look more human then ever before.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/boston-dynamics-shares-an-incredible-behind-the-scenes-look-at-robot-building/

The Parkour video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

Saturday Tech Humor

Saturday Tech Humor

 “The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.” - Pamela Zave

Apple didn’t give us the AR glasses we wanted at WWDC, but Anupam Chugh lists the new Tech that might hint at the future.

Apple didn’t give us the AR glasses we wanted at WWDC, but Anupam Chugh lists the new Tech that might hint at the future.

Spatial Audio, AR Maps Lookup and Hand poses (gestures) would all be important Augmented Reality components.

https://medium.com/big-tech/3-teases-to-apples-ar-and-vr-headset-we-saw-during-wwdc-2021-47f236a3f61f

My guess, Visa will soon follow in only using the electronic chips on credit cards.

My guess, Visa will soon follow in only using the electronic chips on credit cards.

Recently, a vendor tried to run my credit card using old style ink transfer 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastercard-is-removing-the-magnetic-stripe-from-credit-and-debit-cards

A blast from the past, Bill Gates 1982 interview.

A blast from the past, Bill Gates 1982 interview.

His company of 100 people (35 working on IBM product) were hoping that IBM says were 200,000 units.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/heres-what-bill-gates-told-pcmag-about-the-ibm-pc-in-1982