For a deep-dive conversation between two AIs about this post, one generated by Google’s NotebookLM service, click on the audio player below. The second AI created lesson on WeatherKit mostly involved adding the functionality to what my enthusiasm for working through the first lesson had already created. In a way, I’m glad I didn’t readContinue reading “WeatherKit – AI Lesson 2”
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WeatherKit – AI Lesson 1
Click or tap on the audio player below for an AI generated deep-dive into this post. Overall, I found the experience of being taught the basics of accessing and using Apple’s WeatherKit framework using an AI-generated lesson to be better and more inspirational than learning from a book. The ‘feeling’ was similar while getting aContinue reading “WeatherKit – AI Lesson 1”
WeatherKit – The API Struggle
Click or tap on the audio player below for an AI generated deep-dive into this post. Apple’s WeatherKit framework, developed by Dark Sky, which Apple acquired in 2020, was revealed to the developer community at WWDC 2022 and released in the fall of 2022. As an Apple Developer Program member, you are allowed up toContinue reading “WeatherKit – The API Struggle”
AI as an Instructor – The Backstory
Click the link below to listen to two AI generated podcasters discuss this blog post. In the summer of 2008, I got my first iPhone—the iPhone 3G. I had two memorable reactions to this fantastic device. First, the “OMG, this is so totally cool!” reaction, and then, as someone who’d been writing software for 30 years byContinue reading “AI as an Instructor – The Backstory”
Going Deeper With AI
If you would like to listen to a nine minute two-person format podcast reflecting on this post generated by Google’s NotebookLM AI, click on the audio player below. Note that NotebookLM glitches out at the end and pastes in five previous minutes of the podcast. Funny. This afternoon Claude 3.5 and I worked on theContinue reading “Going Deeper With AI”
Spiritual Resonance and AI
If you are interested in an AI generated discussion of this post click on the audio player below. I am currently working on an iOS app to help with my spiritual meditations. Years ago, thanks to my love of science and technology and a growing fascination with philosophy and its intersection with spirituality I discoveredContinue reading “Spiritual Resonance and AI”
Bluesky vs X
The post-US electron “X-odus”, the migration of users and companies off of X/Twitter, represents one of, if not the, biggest moments in the history of Internet-based social media. Long the stuff of dreams, the concept of a federated social media landscape, one where individuals own and control their media selves, is finally gaining traction. YouContinue reading “Bluesky vs X”
Centaur Programming Podcast
This year Google released their NotebookLM. This free service lets you upload PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides, and NotebookLM will summarize them and make interesting connections between topics, all powered by Gemini 1.5’s multimodal understanding capabilities. It also has the ability to generate compelling and professional sounding podcast audioContinue reading “Centaur Programming Podcast”
Centaur Programming: Enhancing Human Coding with AI Collaboration
Centaur programming is changing the world of software development for better or for worse.
Revolutionary Multiplatform App for iOS Developers: Dev Toolkit 1.0 by Forefront Systems Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Forefront Systems Inc. Launches Dev Toolkit: A Revolutionary Multiplatform App for iOS Developers BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA – August 17, 2024 – Forefront Systems Inc., a leader in cutting-edge app development for over 30 years, is thrilled to announce the launch of Dev Toolkit, a groundbreaking multiplatform app now available on the AppleContinue reading “Revolutionary Multiplatform App for iOS Developers: Dev Toolkit 1.0 by Forefront Systems Inc.”
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