Just By Speaking

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:34:11 -0700

My orca Genmoji has been Sherlocked. Thank you for your service.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:14:36 -0700

I’ll just add CarPlay real quick. It will be easy! 🫠

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:45:07 -0700

Any examples of apps with good first time experiences for VoiceOver users?

Any apps that have crafted a VoiceOver specific onboarding, rather than just making the visual onboarding accessible?

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:07:52 -0700

person on the the street lighting a smoke through their Vision Pro

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:52:28 -0700

Apple removed my app from the App Store for an intellectual property violation for using the word Siri in my app description to promote my App Shortcut.

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:53:48 -0700

I’ve fallen into an App Review sarlacc pit and it’s getting bleak.

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:45:52 -0800

I’m presenting tonight at Xcoders Seattle! My talk is called “Tapping Into Visual Intelligence in iOS 26“. We’ll be wiring up an app integration into the system using App Intents, Core Video and Vision frameworks. xcoders.org/2025/09/0…

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:27:44 -0800

Just got a response from a feedback I filed last September. The Siri logo has been added in the new SF Symbols 7 beta. Would they have done this anyway? Maybe! But I’ll take the mini win.

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Please add SF Symbols to represent Siri. I would use this symbol to create my own user ed around utterances users can say as Shortcuts.

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:11:01 -0800

📍Apple Park, Cupertino, WWDC25

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:15:45 -0800

Two months from today I’m running my first half marathon and a few hours later I’m flying to my first WWDC.

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:05:49 -0800

Did the Siri AirPods affirmative head nod as I was walking by someone on the street and it was weird.

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:57:23 -0800

Swift 6 concurrency migration in progress for Art Museum. One of the biggest areas is refactoring all the CloudKit code from completion handlers to async/await.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:33 -0800

Submitted a new build of Art Museum to App Review! hope to share it with you soon

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:49:08 -0800

I started learning ASL this week!

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:57:28 -0800

Follow thatdeafzinester on IG and explore their zine collection to learn more about audism.

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:02:54 -0800

Working in the KEXP Gathering Space today. Seeing into the studio, I’m feeling inspired that a single human in front of a microphone is reaching people all over the world and helping make their day a little better.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:37:02 -0800

I wish you could share public read-only iCloud links to Freeform boards.

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:45:29 -0800

📺 (via YouTube): Inside Apple's Audio Labs

ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis visits Apple’s secret audio labs where the company’s engineers have spent years working on technology that can turn a set of AirPods into an FDA-cleared hearing aid.

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:04:40 -0800

Could a Mac app with Rogue Amoeba esque permissions keep a timeline history of your sonic alerts/notifications? I’ll often hear a sound and have no idea where it came from.

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:17:06 -0800

Been making an effort to see more live music and it’s always so nourishing.

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:11:09 -0800

new  OS?! cloudOS for server hardware/private cloud compute services

no developer story yet, maybe never, but imagine CloudKit offering serverless compute for 3P apps to run private inference jobs on bigger models

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Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:12:34 -0800

I think my recent rental car had “next gen” CarPlay. The main display had the usual driving directions. But a secondary route overview was shown in the driver dashboard. Interesting too based on the screenshot, CarPlay provides a full width asset and the Volvo’s OS blended in a portion of it.

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:24:16 -0800

usually a few minutes crawling around on the ground leads to the cat smacked AirPod, but not this time.

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:01:22 -0800

🔊 Two Voice Devs Episode 211 – I guested this week to explore the evolving developer canvas across Siri, Shortcuts, App Intents and Apple Intelligence. With some throwback to how music, YouTube and Alexa led me to now. Two Voice Devs!

Such a letdown!

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:59:00 -0700

Phil Schiller introducing Siri at the iPhone 4S launch event in October 2011.

For decades, technologists have teased us with this dream that you’re gonna be able to talk to technology and it’ll do things for us. Haven’t we seen this before over and over? But it never comes true. We have very limited capability. We just learn a syntax. Call a name, dial a number, play a song. It is such a letdown! What we really want to do is just talk to our device.