Another excellent Open Source Swift package, one to help validate well-formed email addresses.
Years ago, I wrote an address book program. A tool like this would have been invaluable to me. Thank you, Dave Poirier!
https://github.com/ekscrypto/SwiftEmailValidator
I love it when someone finds a less well-known API, does something interesting with it.
Did you know you can track the movement of your AirPods as you wear them? Pallav Agarwal explains how.
https://github.com/PallavAg/AirPodsMotionAPI
George Ohm outlined his theory of electricity in his book “The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically”. He wrote it while teaching at the Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne, and he got his position thanks to the endorsement of Frederick William III of Prussia.
So there you have it folks, Resistance is Feudal.
(Ps. I looked it up, all these facts are true)
From a few years back, to celebrate 40 years of Apple, this video of Objective-C pioneer Eric Bergerson was released.
“Eric tells us how the modern mobile world owes its very existence to this NeXT heritage”
https://appstorey.com/2016/05/07/on-apples-40th-anniversary-eric-bergerson-tells-how-apple-was-built-upon-next-object-oriented-technology/
So we have some AR Headsets & the Multiverse, what can we do with it?
Belanna Zhou offers some suggestions on virtual collaboration, ones that can not be done any other way.
https://uxdesign.cc/designing-a-metaverse-ar-glasses-app-for-virtual-collaboration-a7386f58d397
This has been in the news, the first attempt at a Union for Software Developers.
I am not a fan of Unions for Technical Engineers, I think professional organizations are better, but the QA folks at Blizzard were being abused.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/21/22894964/activision-blizzard-raven-software-employees-create-game-workers-alliance-union
On this day, in 1984 was not like “1984”. And 2 days before, a super bowl commercial told everyone this.
38 years ago, the Mac was released. This commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, gave everyone a taste of how things were now different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
I got in an argument today at work about what is the best variable name to use for a loop index…
i won.
(My brother told me this joke, I promised to give him credit)
Gerry Christensen LinkedIn article explains some of the basics of the Metaverse, especially the relationship between Real & Virtual.
We will be hearing more and more the term “Digital Twin” as we see physical objects mirrored in the virtual worlds.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-iot-digital-twins-teleoperation-data-management-gerry-christensen/
The history of Smart Glasses by Bernard Kress (then Google, now Microsoft HoloLens).
Though slightly dated, with upcoming possible glasses, this video is still very useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqVggjm6y-U
It is sad for me to see yet another bit of AOL heritage go away.
I amazed me how big we were, and how far AOL fell.
https://datacenterfrontier.com/former-aol-headquarters-in-ashburn-will-become-a-data-center-campus/
Stop Watches, Paper maps, Alarm Clocks. For me with a new case, it is now my wallet.
Think of it, besides a phone, what devices has your iPhone replaced?
https://www.cnet.com/pictures/apple-iphone-and-the-gadgets-it-laid-to-rest/
“Late last year, the Slovak Design Museum released a translated collection of ’80s text adventures from the region. The games, often programmed by teenagers, capture a moment in history when the first generation of Slovak developers were learning their craft to share among their friends.”
https://www.theverge.com/22882705/slovak-design-museum-classic-game-preservation-1980s
Simon Ng (@simonng) gives us a good real use of SwiftUI Path structure to draw Pie Charts.
This example is part of AppCoda’s Mastering SwiftUI book.
https://www.appcoda.com/swiftui-pie-chart/
Tony Skarredghost really comes through with a fantastic review of CES in regards to AR/VR.
Tony’s Ghost Howl’s Newsletter is one of my main sources of news for Virtual Reality.
https://skarredghost.com/2022/01/11/best-ar-vr-news-ces-2022/
Apparently, I am now a published photographer.
Someone asked permission to use my recent photos, and wrote an article about MagFest using them.
https://popculthq.com/2022/01/12/cosplay-photos-super-magfest-2022/
I wish I had this video of 300 drones during Christmas Season, but enjoy it now.
I need to ask my wife if I can have a budget to buy & fly these over my house next December!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AQoZq8Fbo
I never thought of the ramifications of having the name Alexa.
The chart shows the decrease in the popularity of the name, immediately after Amazon's release.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/people-named-alexa-name-change-amazon/
To celebrate the first snow event of the season, here is a Youtube video on how to program a Snow effect with SwiftUI.
To animate the snow art, Mohammad Azam explains animation under SwiftUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBDODEOkqw
I hope you like sarcasm because this author thrives on it when explaining the “joys” of HDMI standards.
HDMI 2.1a has some nice features but is an “optional” standard, so most devices probably won’t support it.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022
Saturday Tech Humor
All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
