by Marc Maset
Back in August I posted about moving back to the Bay Area, and how that would temporarily reduce my bandwidth. Being honest, it was even more disruptive than anticipated. There was the move itself, but also searching for (and buying) a house, fixing its rough edges, furnishing it… And all that while working full time …
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Although still very busy with the move from San Diego to Palo Alto I’m slowly but surely finding time here and there to code. Right now, working on finishing the in app purchase view for Starlight. I know, I know… Not the most exciting part, but still necessary. Here’s the latest screenshot, fresh off the …
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Some personal news to share. My wife & I are relocating from San Diego back to the Bay Area. Although its a positive move, it was not planned, so I will post less frequently in the next couple of months as we’re getting all the move complexities solved. And if you’re in the bay and …
Soft-launch of Starlight going great – thank you for all the positive feedback and improvement suggestions! The app will remain free until I add final touches based on feedback. If you ran into any issues please let me know via the “Contact us” option in the Help menu bar, and if you love the app …
It’s alive!! Go grab it now & Get Stuff Done 👊 The best part? Not only it will make you more productive, but its also free 🙂 More to come, Marc
After over a year in the making – I’m excited to announce another signficant milestone: Starlight has gone gold! Its effectively ready to ship, what’s more, it’s also approved for sale by Apple — feels… pretty good With the app gone gold, I’m now switching to getting ready to ship! Among other things, that includes …
With all the talk & articles about GPT, a few weeks ago I decided to spend a couple days coding one from scratch. The training size can’t be the same (for $$$ reasons), but the model can follow a very similar architecture to the one used by GPT-3. As long as we narrow the training data, …
Even though in their infancy, ChatGPT, Copilot & OPT are already impressive tools. The impact on how we work will be significant and, although expertise will still be critical, people who leverage AI will have an edge over people who don’t. I started increasingly using Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4 behind the scenes) to parse …
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SF Symbols are hugely helpful to help accelerate the development process, Apple has done an amazing job at providing a huge variety of them – all looking great & working well with one another. If you’re a developer and are not familiar with them, you’re missing out – go download them. One minor caveat to …
There’s a lot of chat right now about ChatGPT. And, although the technology may be a bit overhyped, some of the use-cases it enables have the potential to change the way we work: Here’s one, from the Verge: “Intelligent recap is the big new addition to Microsoft Teams Premium […]. Intelligent recap uses OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 …
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