John Marc

Starting something new. After nearly 13 years @ Apple, I'm moving on to build something of my own. Working on one main product idea, plus a couple side projects. I'll also be doing some contracting work along the way when the fit is right. Looking forward to the challenge and exploring where this goes.

I'll be there showing @DewyGolf to folks and chatting a bit about all the work that went into it!

@tom_krikorian @rudrank I joke, of course.

@tom_krikorian @rudrank If the OS still boots, my tests are green.

Insane that it has been an hour and GitHub Actions still completely down

@tom_krikorian @rudrank Carpe di merge. Merge w/ no tests!

@rudrank Damn so that’s what was happening!

This morning, I had a meeting with my sister to discuss a new project she needed for a thesis/class work. (She’s a nurse; I'm not) I quickly used @HeyGen’s Live Avatar to create a mockup of an experience and test the idea. About 2 hours of work and up and running.

@swifteves I'll have my longboard, I'll just grab onto the back ("Back to the Future" style)

Renting an eBike this year for #WWDC26! I think I'm going to love it!

Wild seeing Brazil/Portuguese overtake US/English for one of my side projects. Localization matters because people being comfortable in the app they use matters.

Spent Friday night testing @Apple ‘s new open-source ml-lito image-to-3D model running locally on Apple Silicon via Metal. No cloud, API, or uploads. Getting it working was harder than expected but got there. 👇👇👇@AppleEDU github.com/apple/ml-lito

Apple just dropped a research paper called HeadsUp days before WWDC. Trained on 10,000+ real faces to reconstruct a fully animatable 3D Gaussian Splat that you can rotate and light. Excited to see Personas in visionOS 27.

More sensor & debug w/ @rerundotio

Printing my v1 model for @DewyGolf maps. Really jazzed to see the numbers improve and all the hard work (hopefully) pay off with clean results.

Generally speaking I'm not a fan of Facebook, Inc (Meta) but their engineering teams are a bunch of wizards. Recently found this collection of tools I've pulled into a CLI // Skill partnership for my iOS-testing toolset. github.com/facebook/idb My skill//new CLI: github.com/ioloro/iOS-Tes…

Congrats to @twostraws on Kickstart's launch! An instant subscribe. I've been trying to tune my side project(s) and just used the price parity tooling to revise my IAP pricing on 144 territories with a click.

FOV of MBP camera is impressive.

@mattcassinelli Technically that photo pre-dates AVP. So, really, they copied me.

@ioloro You totally set this as your profile picture to tease working on the AVP didn’t you

Very excited to participate in the Indie Fair at @communitykit_ . See y'all there!

Cont. adventures in annotation. Playing with "ISpy" (don't sue me), where each annotation has it's own frame (crop is user set) can filter on confidence level and then you're off checking "is/is not". Been pretty fun. A few standard of living enhancements like hide/unhide and zoom.

@drbarnard Same, I got an app approval yesterday, which opens "Congratulations!" and dropped what I was doing to read it.

I’m not really expecting a WWDC ticket this year (😢), but emails like this are such a tease… Heart jumps as my brain scans it, then drops when I actually read it.

Sometimes when you're struggling to manually do x, it's best to scale the problem by 10x and put that constraint to solve it at that scale on yourself. If we can't solve it small, what if it was a wildly bigger number...? How would we solve THAT?

@QuinnyPig National Parks Service

Been a while since we played this game: Give me a vendor, I’ll tell you what their AWS re:Invent booth swag should be.