Week #789
We spent some time this week finishing-up a project for the concreters down in Australia. We will be taking over future work directly, so we’re preparing for all that.
We did a lot of brainstorming on some word puzzle mini-games. There is a kernel of something germinating. A few prototypes proved interesting, now we need to sit down with a wider audience and get feedback.
We continued to work on the WebRTC project by layering on a Pose Detection machine learning layer to highlight joins and features.
This week was also several meetings. Previously, we helped a small team put in a Gulleggið submission. Sadly, they were not selected in the top 10, so we all met to figure out the future of this idea. We also met-up with an old friend over zoom and chatted about higher-education, AI and Iceland. On Wednesday we met-up for morning coffee with another friend and chatted health care, AI, research and more. There might be some possibilities to work together in the future. Always dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Thursday was an Orange Weather Alert day, so we mostly stayed home.
On Friday, we published our Camelut article detailing how we built a LUT bring your own filter camera. We also continue to update our camera apps with more small tweaks. Since it is a common library between them for the basic camera features, they all get the benefit of small updates and bug fixes.
Week #790
This is Easter week in Iceland with loads of public holidays and days off. Our work load was pretty minimal as we just had a few meetings and keep a few reoccurring tasks. Otherwise, we enjoyed the stormy Icelandic weather!
On Thursday, we had a few meetings about some new/old project ideas. That opened some big doors with quick deadlines, but we’ve been working towards this for a while.
Friday was the usual sync on a few other projects before the Holiday weekend.
Bric-à-brac
For a new prototype idea, we went back to some old, old UI designs around navigating through the metaphor of the city! These are the navigation headers from Kelloggs.com at the end of 01996 and beginning of 01997. That was a fun time on the web where big companies were still experimenting before the standard mobile friendly navigation we have today.
One thing you notice in Cereal City was the “Card Shop” for those who were not online in the late 90s, ePostcards were a big thing! Even Apple had a whole tab called ‘iCards’ dedicated to sending HTML emails. This was probably a way to both collect email addresses, but also allow people to send HTML email before many mail clients supported it. Hotmail (HoTMaiL – see the reference) was started in 01995 and was one of the first Web-based email clients, before that AOL or Juno both were dedicated apps.
