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 …
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Microsoft aggressively capitalizing on their OpenAI investment
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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The Last of Us – HBO
I was not expecting much from “The Last of Us” from HBO, after so many poor adaptations of video-games, what could one look forward to? Well, I’m glad to say I was wrong. The first two episodes have been so fun to watch. If you enjoyed the game, do check them out. Faithful to the …
And just like that, MarsManaged has reached Beta!
After 18 months of work… …I’m excited to announce that MarsManaged has reached a major milestone, it’s now in Beta. In the following weeks I’ll be opening up more testing seats, can’t wait for your candid feedback -and bug reports-! Until then, here’s a sneak peak of the latest version of the app. CARD’s section: …
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Easily linking any AppKit or UIKit class with SwiftUI
After spending an embarrassing amount of hours trying to get TextField to do what I needed on macOS I decided to try NSViewRepresentable + NSTextField. I was fully prepared to spend the night on this… Yet I got it done in 30m 😮 Lesson learned! Going forward, when a SwiftUI object is not mature enough …
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Here’s to 2023!
As Eisenhower said “Plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable”, so… In no particular order, my plan for 2023 is to: 1. Ship MarsManaged for macOS sometime before June, add iOS versions before EOY 2. Complete two more AI courses & tackle several problems that interest me where ML can make a significant difference 3. …
Restoring macOS window after close – SwiftUI WindowsGroup
Typical behavior for macOS apps is that the apps will preserve their size and position when closed (Command + W) or quit (Command + Q) by the user. When using SwiftUI & WindowsGroup that’s not the case though: although it works as designed when quitting, it forgets position and size when closing the window …
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So… I have a Mastodon account now
I don’t know if it will stick or not, but was seeing enough of my friends migrating there that it was a no brainer for me to create an account. So far, its been quite fun I must say. And I kind of find the federated approach interesting. Anyway, you can find me @ mastodon.social/@MarcMasVi …
Writing these lines from San Diego!
Some personal news to share, my wife and I have relocated to San Diego! We’re still in temporary housing, but I do expect to be fully settled starting January. Until then, I’ll be posting less as there’s a lot of things we’re handling ATM. So far, loving it here – here’s a pic from yesterday, …
Todd Howard Interview w. Lex
Really enjoyed Lex interview w. Todd Howard. If you enjoy Elder Scrolls, Fallout or Game Development it’s worth every minute. Marc