Week #761
We started the week out with lunch with an old co-worker. It was great to meet-up, talk, compare notes and suggestions. Somehow the Banksy Documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” came up. If you haven’t seen it, you should fine a way to watch it.
On Tuesday was the Apple Event. It’s the predictable one where they release new iPhones and watches in preparation for the upcoming holiday season. We like to keep at least one eye on where the puck is heading.
This week we continued on a quick security camera project. There is a crazy Vue.js version, but it has some issues and it is really hard to show to people. Originally, we were tasked with getting a sort of SwiftUI clone with the existing APIs and possibly change them over to a new system. We went way deeper into the weeds than expected.
On Thursday, we had another meeting with another old coworker where we (yet again) resurrected an old app idea. It has potential, precedence and the timing is in a good place. We’ll see if anyone’s interested in us running with the idea.
On Friday, we published article about Integrating Clusters. It is one we started WAY back in 02014 when we were more dealing with processing Natural Language data and trying to cluster the results into manageable, digestible and understandable groups.
Week #762
When we have some downtime, we work on our internal time tracking tool. We’ve shown it to a few external friends and they love the idea. We have integrations with our accounting software all setup and working. We just about have end-to-end client syncing, to time tracking to invoice generation working. Then we are moving onto the big USP (unique selling point).
On Tuesday night, we did our weekly PETALS deploy. This small update is for setting-up permissions on the paid plans. Everyone’s on the “Early Adopter” get everything unlocked plan. So none of the current organizations will notice anything with the deploy, but future customers will start having access to some features behind the subscription paywall.
We also met with an American friend who’s always popping over to Iceland. It was great to have lunch, chat and get some feedback. I’m sure we’ll do it again next time he’s in town.
A family member brought us an idea for an app/website. We think he might be onto something so we stubbed out some app screens and basic revenue model. This week we met-up to create a survey to try and find out what the customer’s needs are rather than what they want. We also are trying to find out which of those needs are not currently being serviced. Using those two axises (high need/unserviced), we can figure out how to position the product and give some clarity and focus.
This week we updated our machines to macOS 26. We’ve been dabbling on iOS26 beta for a while. Testing our apps and get our head around some of the new features. Previously, you couldn’t upload apps to the App Store if you were on a beta macOS, so we didn’t dare break our workflows, and besides we still gotta get stuff done. Long gone are the days of testing bleeding edge software locally on our work machines.
Thursday morning we got some very sad news. Our friend and colleague, Aitor, who’ve we had so many crazy adventures with passed away. We’re still learning about what happened, but the rest of the week was a shock and daze. We created analog.is together, helped when he hosted Sumendi for World Restaurant day and so much more. We’ll always be proud of all our fun projects together.
Bric-à-brac
September 12th was Nintendo Direct. They announced a VIRTUAL BOY emulator and stereoscopic hardware for the switch! We love exploring anything VR and back in 1995, Nintendo’s failed experiment is making a comeback 30 years later!
