This is actually a week-plus-one-day, because…
- 🚗 …we spent most of this past week traveling to visit family. We drove down to Portland and visited our respective families in the area, my wife with her mom and sister and niblings, and me, joined by my brother who flew out from the east coast, visiting with our mom. Had some good and necessary discussions with mom, and it was nice to be able to have both of us there visiting her at the same time. And since we drove back home today, it didn’t really make sense to back-date this post by a day just to keep it as a Sunday evening thing.
📸 Photos
📚 Reading
Finished a Star Trek novel, Dafydd ab Hugh’s Balance of Power, and started Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Pyramids.
🔗 Linking
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Scott O’Hara: How do you figure?: About the proper use of the
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Sara Soueidan: Accessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions: Learning more about ARIA live regions.
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John Voorhees at MacStories: Hands-On: How Apple’s New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Lightning-Fast Transcription: “By harnessing SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber on-device, the command line tool tore through the 7GB video file a full 2.2× faster than MacWhisper’s Large V3 Turbo model, with no noticeable difference in transcription quality.”
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Tim Chambers: The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix): “So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? ¶ Reader, it was brutal.”
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Federico Viticci at MacStories: Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad’s Essence: If you haven’t read this post-WWDC interview yet, now’s the time.
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Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz at Adobe’s research group: Project Indigo – a computational photography camera app: “As Adobe explores ways to evolve mobile photography…we have developed a camera app we call Project Indigo. Today, we are releasing this for iPhone as a free mobile app from Adobe Labs, available in the Apple App Store – to share our progress and get feedback from the community. The app offers full manual controls, a more natural (“SLR-like”) look, and the highest image quality that computational photography can provide – in both JPEG and raw formats. It also introduces some new photographic experiences not available in other camera apps.”
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Phoenix Tso and Elizabeth Chou at Los Angeles Public Press: Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they can’t: “People now frequently turn out in the evenings at hotels where ICE agents are believed to be staying, to bang on pots and pans and play sounds on bullhorns to prevent the agents from having a good night’s sleep. They also hope that the disruption will put pressure on hotel management to turn immigration officials away.”