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iPad
- Sketching and Logo Creation
This was a livestream from a while back with Maggie Appleton (her work referenced in this past Weekend Reading) going step by step through her illustration process. She uses a few straightforward but useful techniques…
- Concepts
I just installed this iPad app for sketching, which intrigued me for a few of its features. I've tried dozens of apps, but they tend to fall too far into the art camp or the note-taking camp, without very many that se…
- LiDAR on the iPad Pro
The new iPad Pro's LiDAR support presages an interesting direction for Apple to take the sensors on all of their devices. In this post, Halide designer Sebastiaan de With shows some of the cool possibilities with LiDA…
- 10th Anniversary of the iPad: Perspective from the Windows Team
A great annotated Twitter thread from Steven Sinofsky, who was leading the launch of Windows 7 coincident with when the iPad was announced. 19/ The iPad and iPhone were soundly existential threats to Microsoft’s core…
- Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10
🛠Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging We've been doing some thinking on our team about how to systematically address (and repay) technical debt. With the web of interconnected dependencies and micro package…
- iPad Pro 11" Impressions
I just got the latest version of the iPad Pro, opting for the 11” model instead of the previous generation 12.9” one that I’ve been using for 2 years. Some brief thoughts so far on a week’s worth of usage: The iPad So…
- Weekend Reading: The Next Mapping Company, Apple on Pros, and iPadOS Workflow
🗺 (Who will be) America's Next Big Mapping Company? America's Next Big Mapping Company?") Paul Ramsey considers who might be in the best position to challenge Google as the next mapping company: Someone is going to t…
- iPadOS
I've written here before about my enjoyment of working on the iPad Pro. Even with the excitement around Apple's launch of the new Mac Pro this week, my favorite announcement was their "specialization" of iOS in the ne…
- Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
📱iPad Diaries: Typing on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio I swung through an Apple Store a couple of weeks ago to check out the new hardware. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been hard to imagine the experience…
- Weekend Reading: AV-Human Interaction, iPad Pro, and Buying Out Investors
🚙 How Self-Driving Cars Could Communicate with You Interesting work by Ford’s self-driving team on how robotic vehicles could signal intent to pedestrians. You normally think Waymo, Tesla, and Uber with AV tech. But…
- A Week with the iPad
For the last 7 days I've only been using the iPad. I've had a 12.9” iPad Pro for about a year, but have only used it in “work mode” occasionally so I don't have to lug the laptop home all the time. Most of what I do t…