Dan Bricklin @danb@qoto.org

John Warnock was one of technology's good guys. R.I.P. https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-warnock-dies-82-2023-08-20/

I'm bad at this but here's a link to my book on how everything -- and I do mean everything -- gets from the factory to our front doors.

We should all be more aware of how this system works. Reporting it was certainly life-changing and worldview-altering for me.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims?variant=33080441274402

‘Older people sit down and ask, “What is it?” but the boy asks, “What can I do with it?”‘

/via https://genius.com/David-sheff-playboy-interview-steve-jobs-annotated

Ed Fredkin's obit
https://www.boston.com/news/massachusetts-obituaries/2023/06/21/obituary-edward-fredkin-brookline-ma/

Hugely influential in the early days of DEC

@stroughtonsmith has been posting GIFs of cool #visionOS details, including abilities of the “drag bar” below each window:

- Tap the bar to make just that one window turn to face you.

- Drag any window onto a desk/wall and stick it there flat.

- Then tap the bar to make tilt up to face you.

- Looks like you can tap again to toggle it back to flat?

- Long-press the dot for options like Hide Others.

- You can keep windows in different rooms, even from the same app.
#VisionPro #AppleVisionPro

visionOS developer pro tip: invest in a gamepad to navigate the simulator and get those smooth panning shots of your UI

As a semi-frequent contributor (and with a couple of articles in the pipeline), I'm thrilled to learn that DPReview will live on under the ownership of Gear Patrol

https://www.dpreview.com/site-news/8298318614/dpreview-com-looks-forward-to-a-new-chapter-with-gear-patrol

Explain why airplane PA systems can't incorporate listening microphones and zone intelligence and noise cancellation? It's not even expensive now.

This is something I haven’t seen amidst all the hype, an actual developer’s view on the new Apple headset. Answers a lot of good substantive questions about real-world app creation. https://youtu.be/n8-wTpiuZwE

We appreciate your boosts 🙏 It would be fun to go to our year-end meeting and say we have more followers in the #fediverse than we do on Instagram 😁

#news #Newstodon #journalism #journalists

The Apple Vision Pro is a watershed moment for personal computing.

I tried it a week ago, and haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Here is my story on three pivotal moments from my Vision Pro demo and why spatial computing is a new frontier.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-vision-pro-a-watershed-moment/

@marcoarment Happy Birthday! Thank you for all of the joyful things you make!

For anyone who watched ONLY the main WWDC Keynote segment about Vision Pro and then decided Apple had ditched accessibility to leave blind people outside in the cold, I can absolutely recommend this session: “Create accessible spatial experiences”

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10034

#A11y #Accessibility #UIAccessibility #VisionPro #VoiceOver #WWDC #WWDC23

I think I’m one of the (few?) humans who could use the new Apple iFacePlate right now. I’ve got this project where I’m intensely editing a large complex doc, frequently accessing several other large complex docs (& browser) for materials. I have a big outboard screen, but still a painful amount of window shuffling. The ability to simultaneously display and read more BIG windows than any physical screen could manage would make my life way easier.

#VisionPro #apple