Working on some more iOS improvements, currently waiting for Apple to review the beta. 🙄 Automated builds via Xcode Cloud are still working well. I mentioned on the special episode of Core Int (🤯) that builds are slow-ish. To be specific, took 16 minutes today. It’s fine.
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Stephen Hackett reminiscing on the Aqua introduction from 2000 and what we’ve lost without live demos:
This all makes me miss live keynotes. I know Apple likes the control it has over pre-recorded introductions, but its announcements deserve live demos, off-the-cuff remarks, and the humanity that was once more prevalent at things like WWDC or iPhone introductions.
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We know a few new things about the OpenAI / Jony Ive partnership, because of leaks and the iyO lawsuit. I’m skeptical of a screen-free device that is not a wearable. Maybe someone should break away from the rectangle form factor. Square screen, a few inches on each side, very good voice interface.
True success is daring to fail
We often only see the finished product, not the messy journey behind it.
That thought struck me while I was listening to an interview with the Swedish artist Per Gessle, best known for his work with the band Roxette. When asked about the key to success, he replied:
“You have to dare, and you have to fail, and you have to make a fool of yourself, and you have to do terrible things to do good things.”
It’s easy to forget this when we look at people who’ve succeeded in one way or another. It’s rarely instant success from the start. More often, it’s a long trail of failures and wrong turns that eventually leads to something that works.
Those “terrible things” he mentioned? They could be anything from embarrassing mistakes to pursuing dead-end ideas. It’s all part of the necessary learning process.
The road to success
The goal is just one part of the journey. If we want to get from point A to point B, we have to go through the whole trip. It doesn’t matter if we’re holding a first-class ticket with a luxury hotel waiting, we still have to board the plane.
We can’t just sit still and try to plan every little detail. Or, well… we can. But it won’t take us anywhere. It’s like sitting in a rocking chair: it keeps us moving, but we’re not actually getting anywhere.
The road towards the goal is the real teacher. Only when we let go and throw ourselves out there are we truly on the right track, however long or winding it may be. There are no shortcuts.
We can sit on a hundred blog post drafts, but it’s only when we hit “publish” that we start to understand what it’s really about. What our role is, where we can contribute, and how to actually do it.
True success is daring to fail.
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Was je niet aanwezig bij de Public Spaces Conference? Dan kun je de video’s nog eens op je gemak bekijken. Ik kan het je zeker aanraden, er zitten veel mooie en interessante sprekers tussen. De video’s van de conferentie zijn te vinden op Peertube, een decentraal videoplatform. Het lijkt allemaal op Youtube, maar het grote verschil is dat je geen advertenties hebt, geen algoritme dat je constant naar andere video’s pusht (en dus meer advertenties) en dat je de kanalen via RSS kunt volgen. Wel zo handig! Alhoewel…
Ik abonneer me op het kanaal van Public Spaces, om de video’s vanuit mijn feedreader te bekijken. Dat gaat helaas niet zonder slag of stoot. Ik heb een korte video opgenomen om je te laten zien wat er gebeurt in de RSS feed van Peertube
Ja, de ironie ontgaat me niet dat deze video niet op Peertube zelf staat, maar bij een partij in de Verenigde Staten. Alle overstap is moeilijk! Ik ben blij met Peertube, ik gebruik het eerlijk gezegd nog té weinig en ik acht de kans niet heel groot dat ze Youtube zullen overschaduwen. Als ze het voor elkaar krijgen om de RSS feeds ook net iets toegankelijker te maken, dan hebben we wel weer een kleine stap gezet!
