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@davemark Unless I’m confusing things, I believe on Mac you need 16GB of RAM to run at least some of the new “AI” functionality … So I believe the RAM capacity will be a factor even if you have M1 Macs …

The new ContainerValues is also really appreciated, a huge missing piece when developing custom SwiftUI components. Really feels like Apple is bridging the gap between API surface and the "black box magic" of SwiftUI this year!

@invalidname UK panel shows in general are the best — once you get hooked, there’s no going back 😛 If you want quiz shows, then you might want to give “Richard Osman’s House of Games” a try too. I believe there are lots of episodes on YouTube …

But if you are looking for non-quiz shows, give “TaskMaster” or “Would I Lie to You” a try. Hilarious and we generally re-watch the seasons over and over when we run out of stuff to watch 🙂

@dimsumthinking

@AndreasThinks I used to post about new machine learning papers daily but as you mention, there isn’t a lot of conversation over here these days.

Plus, the growing tar and feather everything remotely connected to “AI” (and I use the term loosely since I don’t like using that term since what we have now isn’t AI) sentiment doesn’t really lead to open conversation …

So I’ve just stopped talking about the stuff I’m working on. But there are at least some people on here who still talk about ML related stuff on and off ….

Depending on what you are interested in, whether it’s practical implementations, new advances, a particular field etc. I might be able to point you to some …

Seeing a bunch of posts about how "native" developers are better, during WWDC. All languages are tools, each has its pros/cons.

No need to be a tool about how great your language is (or how bad other developers are) though 😛

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I’ll also be at their tent Thursday morning to discuss testing until noon pacific time!

It’s at the Residence Inn on Main Street in Cupertino, tickets are free. Check them out at https://omt-conf.com

And yes, it’ll be recorded.

Looking forward to meeting folks tomorrow!

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After having given it a day for everything to sink in, this year’s WWDC feels … anticlimactic.

The features I’d really like to try out are not going to be available for a while. I don’t really care about a lot of the new features. And there seems to be nothing that I really want to try out in terms of Swift changes that I really want to code on …

Tried watching some WWDC videos from yesterday and today and I’m mostly just unmoved (and unmotivated ) by them.

I think I’m going to take a break from WWDC and go work on some Flutter stuff … which I’m at least excited by — at least, right now 🙂

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@bardi Your project sounds very interesting to me given that I don’t like scrambling to keep up — and it feels as if you do too 🙂

Let me know if you need any beta testers … I’m always up for more beta testing, especially if it’s a Fedi client 🙂 I’ve created 4 - 5 different clients based on open source projects to suit my own needs but eventually move on to a new iteration …

@bardi I figured it might be post-WWDC but didn’t want to assume 🙂

I have this customised client where I can colour code posts from people in different lists. So I have all my “Swift people” under one list and the colour coding has been very helpful in keeping up with the WWDC stuff. I just ignore non-coloured (or not of the specific colour I want) posts and just move on to the next Swift/WWDC related one.

I didn’t realize how helpful that was till I switched to the new client I’m working on which doesn’t have that feature 😛

@bardi Interesting that you should say that 🙂

Not quite sure what “days like today” meant for you, but yesterday I was testing a new Flutter Fedi client through the day because my timeline would keep updating quite rapidly and it allowed me to test some background fetching functionality easily 😛

Then I made a major change and it all broke .. and I got caught up between catching up on the reaction to Apple events and fixing the client 😀

@theevildonut Haven’t used it. Does it have keyboard support too? That’s what I really look forward to with the Apple implementation … I hate typing on the iPhone and none of the existing “use your Mac keyboard” solutions actually work most of the time …

@davemark The most exciting things for me were the iPhone mirroring (love that to death — if it works well …) and the math/script stuff on iPad though I’m not even sure I’ll actually get to use it 😛

Curious about the “AI” (whichever version of the acronym you want to go with) as to how well it would work and if it’s actually going to be as good as the demos. Plus, all the generated images were small — what happens if you want bigger images? Does it work or is the generation limited by size?

A lof of the early stuff barely moved the needle for me …

@smeg Thank you 🙂 I’d be very interested to hear what you think when/if you read it …

I got my dates mixes up. The 0.99 promo for my book, "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" is not this Saturday, but next.

Apologies if I confused/misled anyone ... Too many things going on at the moment 🙂

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@TriflingTree Thank you 🙂 If you do read it, I’d be interested to hear what you think …

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