This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-06-10)
In this week’s edition:
Apple announces the most complicated and futuristic device ever made, the SEC tries to blowup the entire crypto industry, and I figured out and fixed the newsletter issue numbering thing
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Today’s links:
How First Principles Thinking Fails - A short exploration into situations where first principles thinking doesn't lead to the right result, something I've been wondering about myself for a while. The danger when it happens is that it's often completely unnexpected, and so runs the risk of being catastrophic. It's a good idea to keep an open mind to other ways of approaching a problem. commoncog.com #
🎙We Studied Thousands of Heads (Accidental Tech Podcast) - The guys review the entire WWDC conference, which is pretty standard. Vision Pro coverage starts ~2 hours into the episode. Quite technical discussion from the experienced Mac user / developer angle, covering topics including field of view, social stigma, latency, not being presented as a gaming device at all, capturing 3D video, no killer app yet, currently lots of 2D screens in 3D, new area of the AR/VR market focussing on work applications, spacial audio, potentially cool dev environment setups, not really priced for consumers atm, power cable disconnect shuts everything off, and possible apps in shopping, interior design, meditation and fitness spaces. atp.fm #
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion - People are inventing some quite innovative ways of using Stable Diffusiom AIs that take existing QR codes and moddify them into art while keeping the encoded QR data intact. arstechnica.com #
An introduction to AI in Node.js - Reading through this tutorial, it's not actually that difficult to get a pre-trained model up and running. I find the way that these AI systems are architected to be a bit strange, perhaps unintuitive, or maybe it's just the way the interfaces are described. I'm not able to parse them as quickly as say web APIs. Anyway the cool thing is it's possible to do it all from Node.js using Tensorflow.js. developer.ibm.com #
Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro - It will be super interesting to see how this all unfolds. It's actually good that there is diversity in approach right from the start. It's an ecosystem, lots of room for everyone. Hopefully we will remember some of the lessons learnt from the past, like interop and open protocols. Healthy competition. I think there's a path where all the companies and people in the space are helping each other, building the future together. That's when the tech industry is at it's best. www.theverge.com #
News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 beta - Based on WWDC reviews on various podcasts, it's clear this year's WWDC was kind of mega. Of course there's the Vision Pro, that's what everyone's talking about, but there was a ton of other hardware and software announcements. Reading through the Webkit release notes I'm blown away by how many features have been released across HTML/CSS/JS, it's truely mind boggling. I'm also getting a sensation that I think can best be described as a sort of general vertigo, about how unfathomly complex the entire web platform is. Just wanted to mention that now, because the complexity is about to increase significantly. The 3D stuff has my mind racing about how Vision Pro is going to change webdev. Awesome but also a bit scary. webkit.org #
Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta - MacOS joins iPad/iOS in supporting web apps, this is a detailed writeup, complete with lots of screenshots. Works with any site, no need for a manifest file, and appear as a regular app in the Dock. I'm imagining all sorts of cool things I could add to my website that would enable it work offline as a web app. Wouldn't it be awesome if the whole site worked offline? blog.tomayac.com #
🚀 Latest Newsletter: Apple’s Vision Pro, Crypto vs SEC markjgsmith.com #
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