New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather 🔗
I published my perfect iPhone weather app, and my guess is that you won’t want it. Premise: Why doesn’t my weather app tell me the weather yesterday? [...]
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Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode 🔗
I updated my Galactic Compass app for iPhone with augmented reality mode. Background: Galactic Compass is a floating green arrow that always points th [...]
Filtered for some poetry in modern English 🔗
1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it tu [...]
AI alignment is a red herring 🔗
The best way to prevent a rogue AGI from processing the Earth into maximum paperclips is to unleash a second AGI that will work to stop it. The proble [...]
If you have a Poem/1, pls run this firmware update 🔗
Hey, if you have a Poem/1 then can I ask you to do a manual firmware update? It’ll take just a few minutes and I built a special firmware update tool [...]
Please let me phone my podcasts app 🔗
My perfect podcast app would be a long phone call in which I listen to the show and can also talk back to remember things. (Someone build this for me. [...]
Frozen 2 should be rated R 🔗
I watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which was as great as I remember. It has an age rating of PG-13 in the US and 15 in the UK for bad language and som [...]
Examples from sci-fi of voice interfaces that stay on task 🔗
I wonder how you would design a really single-minded voice UI? Like, voice interfaces are really good now because of AI. But they’re so unbounded. If [...]