Maker of things accessible by using www. — Fuelled by tea. Husband and father 🏴🏴 https://xitter.cf/t.co/HKYpll1Ahv https://xitter.cf/t.co/KbhL3a8AdG
Dumfries, Scotland
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I've been messing around with iOS apps and made a small game, I put on my phone for testing, I asked my daughter if she's seen "this new game" and wanted to try it, she solved the puzzle within a couple minutes and said "I want it" and proceeded to open the AppStore on her phone
The iPhone Duo has great appeal to me, I love the form factor of the iPad Mini, and an iPhone, being able to switch from two devices to a single device is very appealing, but not at that price tag!
Architecture can be simple, and should be simple. Showing you can build a system with 10s of moving items is someone just flexing their muscles. A solid architecture is the one that's in it's simplest form
Building a web application used by the family is an interesting experience, but nice to be able to get instance and real feedback.
Been using our own clanendar for the past wee while.
clanendar.com
The cloud, the infinite resource, just create new resources... Until you get the big red message; "Amazon EC2 doesn't have capacity at this time to launch your instances"
Was playing around with a different way to delete something in one of my apps. a Hold to delete confirmation with visual effect on the text disappearing
Still confuses me how boarding of planes is still a mess, people sat down seat belts on as if they ready to takeoff, and you have the window seat.
Cracking day of racing @krcircuit for @OfficialBSB
ALT Kyle Ryde entering the final corner of knockhill circuit followed by two other super bike riders
ALT Charlie Nesbit cornering at Knockhill hairpin on a Honda superbike
As a user of AI for various things, and to keep up to date with the moving industry the cost of doing things at scale is scary - I am curious at how much companies are actually spending given recent news from Microsoft cybernews.com/ai-news/micros…
Soft launched Quelle (quelle.today) a couple weeks ago. A very minimal RSS reader, that's a feed of your feeds.
Used the same style of the feed on the homepage, so the landing page is the example of what you get.
Sitting next to your child learner driver requires a lot of trust and confidence. The feeling of letting them grow and giving them responsibility is an odd experience
Amazing how things have changed with the increase in AI scrapping these days. 12 years ago fetching RSS feeds was trivial, these days it's much different with all the CDN protections being put in place.