I was prompted to write this post by major frustrations in dealing with the Quest 3. The sad thing is these frustrations are part of something I accomplished using the Quest 3 that I really wanted to talk about, and…
Browser Performance The CPU of the Quest 3 is supposedly about twice as fast as the Quest 2’s and it definitely shows in the performance of the browser. WebGL-powered widgets like map box and reasonably interesting BabylonJS demos seem to…
Text Entry 😒😕😱🤷♂️… There are at least five ways to enter text on the Quest 3 (also the Quest 2). In rough terms these options are bearable, awful, awful but in a whole new way I had never previously experienced,…
It occurred to me that there’s no real way to develop for mixed reality without a mixed reality headset. The idea of trying to build a Vision Pro app that’s more than just an iOS / macOS app floating in…
I remember some time ago that an environmentalist group in Switzerland had calculated that if we were all going to live sustainably at similar standard of living (i.e. not burning A/C in McMansions in Arizona playing golf on greens watered…
I’ve been using Panic Nova pretty solidly for over two months now. I’ve been using it for both my personal work and for my “day job”, and today I got sufficiently frustrated with it to switch back to VS Code…
(This is an AI-generated image linked in a reddit thread talking about generating this image using AI, so I don’t feel too guilty using it.) I recently discovered I had collected a lot of credits in the audiobook service I…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything overtly political, but I just listened to the third and fourth episodes of the latest series of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History. Even though this is probably my favorite podcast of all…
Note: this is a continuation of my earlier consideration of Nova. It seems that the recurring theme of Nova is that if a feature of Visual Studio Code or TextMate is sufficiently important, it (a) has a first class native…
Can an indie software company compete with a free product from Microsoft that seemingly everyone, myself included, uses… as well as other well-regarded indy products such as Sublime and BBEdit? I’m a big, long-term fan of Panic software. It started…