One week with SwiftUI

By Joseph
Posted in Retrospective, Technical
I just wrapped up a week of working with SwiftUI full time. It certainly has some rough edges and each new beta version brings a lot of changes. Here is a recap of what’s working for me and what I still need to figure out. List views are really simple in SwiftUI. The first layout…
Thinking about SwiftUI

Thinking about SwiftUI

By Joseph
Posted in Retrospective, Technical
Last week I decided to spend the weekend learning about SwiftUI. The weekend turned into an entire week but I was eventually able to learn everything I set out to learn. This course on Udemy was particularly helpful. I’m going to take a long weekend to give myself time to reflect on what I have learned…

Symbols and icons

By Joseph
Posted in Retrospective, Technical
I’m working on an icon picker for my app. The idea is to allow users to select a color and icon as a secondary way of identifying their lists. I have 10 colors picked out and the color picker is up and running, and I just wrapped up the first pass at the icon picker….

Finding the right work

By Joseph
Posted in Professional
What is this? Since 2019 I’ve been having a slow conversation with myself about what I do for work. For context, I got my start in software development in 2011 in the FileMaker Pro platform. I worked on tons of internal solutions for small business and government clients while I built up some skills. In…

New Podcast: Project Update

By Joseph
Posted in Professional
In spring of 2018 Dave and I put VR Hermits on hiatus. Dave had some interesting work he wanted to focus on and I needed to spend some time on a few consulting projects. We had planned to resume in the fall but I think somewhere along the line Dave realized that Virtual Reality development…

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  • @vrhermit • November 12, 2024

    I really like the way Threads posts look when you embed them in a website.

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  • @vrhermit • September 19, 2023

    This was a short test recording I made with Adobe Podcast (beta as of Sep 2023).

    Recording:

    Unedited transcript:

    Joseph: This is just a test of the new Adobe Podcast app. It’s in beta and I’ve been on the waiting list for a couple of months and I got the email this weekend. So I’m talking into my MacBook with no microphone or anything, just using the the built in MacBook Pro microphone. And I’m sitting on my couch not terribly close to it and talking pretty quietly at my normal tone and not necessarily holding still or trying to be quiet. So. Yeah. That’s where it put this thing through its paces and see what it can do with mouth sounds and background sound or whatever. But yeah, I’m just going to talk for about, I don’t know, five more seconds and then I’ll stop and see what it sounds

    Notes

    • Editing is a bit limited
    • Exports are large and would need to be mixed down
    • Chrome only
    • Beta for now, pricing unknown
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  • @vrhermit • June 16, 2023

    Pancakes and Space.

    Pancakes = the 2D (normal) UI/UX work I do all day

    Space = the 3D/VR work I tinker with

    Apple Vision Pro = Pancakes IN Space

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