Dom Kiva Meyer

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Also, as I mention in the post, I'm in the market for a job. You can check out ideolalia.com/job.html to learn more about my background, interests, and skills. If you've got something that seems like a good fit, let me know.

Dear @YouTube I'm not sure what happened but my page has vanished. Could I get some help? My channel had millions of views and was a valuable resource for teachers, educators, therapists, and doctors. There's so much work I can't recreate and a subscriber base I can't rebuild.

@quant_arb I don’t understand how they’re compatible. Credit cards often have signup bonuses that require spending significant sums in a short period. Financing splits the costs over an extended period.

@domkm Yeah that’s why you finance it and bill it to a separate, but interest earning account

I don’t see why everyone doesn’t finance every Apple purchase. 0% interest for 24 months. That’s like 5% off. Free money.

For the past few years, I've been working on a book about software design. Lately, I've been feeling the need to ensure that its core ideas resonate with a broader audience. As such, I've started a newsletter: explaining.software/archive/a-brie…

Can we just not have a president for the next four years? Surely that should be an option.

@realitychangin @markgurman Search for beta in settings and sign in with your Apple account again.

@markgurman good. no app arrangement was insane and current public os is incredibly unstable. i want to download the beta (i have enrolled for betas) and it will not show up in my settings 😫

Still very early, but visionOS 2 even as a beta 1 feels more stable than the public visionOS ever has. The Bora Bora environment is A+. And even though it is a fairly light update, the small improvements - like re-arranging icons - really add up to a better experience thus far.

@anyware Is this source code for this available?

I just released v0.6.0 of my spatial command-line tool. This one adds support for spatial photos. Export to individual images and common formats. Or make spatial photos from those same formats. See release_notes.txt in the download for details: blog.mikeswanson.com/spatial/

None of the takes on Apple Vision Pro focus on what I believe to be important, so I wrote my own: domkm.com/posts/humane-c…

GitHub spam has arrived

@bernhardsson Re-org along nonsensical lines plus rewrite to microservices

Let's say you infiltrated an evil megacorp by getting hired as a CTO, and you want to thwart its output as long as you possibly can (without getting caught/fired). What would you do?

No HBO-style series on the life of Robert Moses exists? This is a travesty of the highest order. Robert Caro's biography "The Power Broker" is the best breaking bad story I've ever heard.

One decade ago, the greatest YouTube video of all time was uploaded: youtube.com/watch?v=5gUKZp…

@bernhardsson Unfortunately, this approach breaks down most when you need to build for the Apple ecosystem.

In the long run, I expect most/all of developers doing things locally will go away. Developing, testing, building, running, deploying, etc. When developers need to run things locally today it’s a sign that cloud tools aren’t there yet imo.

@VoiceDreamApp @HTDS02 Are Siri voices available in iOS 16 beta 3 and, if so, how does one select them in VDR? I don’t see them in the voices list.

@domkm @HTDS02 Yes, but iOS 16 beta 1 broke a few things in Voice Dream Reader. An update will be out soon.

Just released an update to macOS Reader. Now you can save speech to an audio file! Plus, support for macOS Ventura for the brave. Ventura comes with Eloquence voices plus a bunch of other terrific new voices. The first beta is a rough but usable.

@VoiceDreamApp @HTDS02 Are they also available in iOS 16 currently?

@HTDS02 Siri voices are not open to 3rd party apps in Monterey and before. But looks like they are available in Ventura and I pray to the gods at Apple that it'll stay this way.

@FreyaHolmer This is Momo. She normally loves walking but on this day it was raining so she hid in my jacket.

I'm feeling pretty burnt out, I could use some happy lil stories can you reply with a pic of a cat you've met, and tell me something nice about them?

github.com/vlaaad/tweet-d… — new Clojure library that allows you to specify tweets with Clojure code as dependencies! #Clojure

@plexus We are at Beacon (beacon.works)! More, albeit dated, information in my Conj talk: youtube.com/watch?v=v9_DYj… DM me or send your resume to work@beacon.works if you're interested.

Who's hiring Clojure devs these days?