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That’s funny, I’ve actually used the same algorithm but with taxis in general, for having the same exact issue as the person in this article… but with a real driver. (All of this assuming it’s safe to keep a door open!)

I’ve also started publishing a small collection of what I call “spite apps” (a reference to Larry David’s spite store when he makes his own coffee shop to go against mocha joe).

These apps are super simple in terms of privacy policy: - we don’t track you (no telemetry) - we don’t show you ads - no account - free with optional tip

Sure I don’t make much money with them but I feel like I’m pushing back on making humanity worse.

Same here. I was a fervent Claude code user at $200/mo until Opus4.7.

Freezing your IDE version is now a thing of the past, the new reality is that we can't expect agentic dev workflows to be consistent and I see too many people (including myself) getting burned by going the single-provider route.

On one hand I’m glad to finally see anthropic communicate on this but at this point all I have to say is… time to diversify?

Ironically, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t already the case before? I recall vividly employment contracts with meta in 201X with a clear mention that employees were giving up any sense of privacy while using meta provided devices or entering meta’s premises…

This is great! I found myself asking my AI agents to generate those icons every so often (esp. for websites), so thank you for taking the time to build this.

Quick question, are you also planning on supporting animations?

I’m assuming your comment is a reference to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

I actually didn’t know! Thanks for pointing that out.

Though I do agree with you, I just came back from a trip to China (Shanghai more specifically) and while attending a couple AI events, the overwhelming majority of people there were using VPNs to access Claude code and codex :-/

I really appreciate their effort to go towards more recycling, but to me a lot of this is completely moot as long as they don’t provide a stronger incentive to surrender your old devices for recycling. It’s actually really simple to reach $0 trade-in value due to absolutely silly things like a scratched display. Why would I be giving you back my iPhone for free when even glass bottles are $0.5 when recommissioned…

I’ve submitted an app (connectors?) to their store and their submission form indicated a 2 weeks turnaround for an answer, including the possibility of not even getting a response at all (it was written verbatim). Not sure who’s responsible for customer support but damn. (Needless to say I never heard back)

Just requested deletion through this form: https://withpersona.com/dsar

Hey there!

For the past month I’ve been working on a creative / VFX / 3D tool that connects Apple devices into an all-in one node editor: https://subjectivedesigner.com/

With it, you can build interactive experiences, connect device sensors, compose shaders with AI models, orchestrate real-time data flows, and create projects that span across the entire Apple ecosystem. I’m posting about it regularly on social media and you can see some of it here: https://x.com/sxpstudio (Though it’s still early and most content is on socials thus far).

It’s done fully in SwiftUI + metal and also a good occasion to ramp up on agentic-powered software engineering. So far it’s been a lot of fun and working really great for me. And to be clear I’m absolutely not talking about vibe coding :-)

In an ideal world, people would be implementing UI/UX accessibility in the first place, and a lot of those problems would be solved in the first place. But one can also hope that having the motivation to get agents running on those things could actually bring a lot of accessibility features to newer apps.

The last time I can remember a collaboration between Valve and Apple was for the SteamVR support on macOS back in 2016. Sadly it fell apart a year(-ish) after that. But… one can dream!

At this point, it’s clear these sort of measures will go through, if not now but in some foreseeable future. What would be our best bet moving forward? Moving to signal/telegram?

Your points make sense, I didn’t think about it that way. I wish there was a standard to override nearby vehicles with radio / audio to signal the presence of the emergency ones, but probably not happening anytime soon… Maybe another future win for self driving cars that can be more aware of those things and smooth out traffic

I live in Paris, France and it’s so loud (but people here don’t really respect emergency vehicle so it could be part of why it’s so loud). In contrast, I spent a month in Tokyo Japan; and even though I was near a police station, it was nowhere near the sound level of what we have here. Curious what other countries you have in mind?

Maybe it’s just me but I wonder why western countries don’t implement noise limits for vehicles with sirens in residential areas (fire trucks, police, ambulance etc.). It always felt to me unnecessarily loud.

That sounds pretty neat! Are you able to share more about it?

- Location: Paris, France (but work internationally)

- Remote: Yes

- Willing to relocate: No

- Technologies: VisionOS, Swift, RealityKit, etc.

- Résumé/CV: https://sxp.studio || https://linkedin.com/in/clemzio

- Email: contact@sxp.studio

Starting September 1st, I’m freeing up time for select freelance work & collaboration on Apple Vision Pro and other XR platforms. From helping build the visionOS platform back in 2016 to publishing several immersive apps, I bring hands-on expertise across the stack — from concept to launch.

Available for:

- Early concept & rapid prototyping

- 3D interaction design, environments and visual effects

- End-to-end native app development (No Unity)

- Strategic, product & technical review

Though I usually work solo, I'm also part of a broader collective of people consisting of XR devs & 3D artists that can help scale for more ambitious projects.

Back when Meta was still called Facebook, I was in a spot where I had a few offers (including Meta) and the reason why I picked it was the following:

- cool project that is somewhat not related to shady stuff (Oculus)

- cool people I knew there

- I got down-leveled, so money was just a small % bump to my previous salary

I ended up quitting after less than a year due to said toxic culture and a bunch of other reasons.

Meta employees had (has?) this little stat on your profile page that gives you a title based on how long you were there. Staying 4 years gave you the title of "Mercenary". I think it speaks by itself :-)

Honestly speaking, some people actually thrive in the Meta culture and end up making bank with repeated promotions, but they are also clearly able to abstract the ethical side of things to focus on maximizing impact at all cost.

Last year I quickly built then released an experimental mixed reality horror game for Apple VisionPro: https://pulsargeist.com. It was a lot of fun and people actually liked the early prototypes of it. The game ended up completely tanking on VisionPro. Most people are on Meta Quest anyway so I'm now trying to re-implement the whole thing with Godot for Quest.

It's been a lot of fun but Meta HorizonOS (or whatever) is such a poorer dev experience... Anyway I'm now trying to rebuild the live environment mesh reconstruction feature that doesn't exist while encountering first limitations with Godot... Hopefully it will be ready in a couple months!

If this whole thing got you curious you can watch a technical talk I made about this game at the Letsvision conference in Shanghai, CN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFH2hiRNqk

...and if social media doesn't somehow destroy your soul, you can follow me here: https://x.com/sxpstudio

Do you mean as a new development? Because France (and the UK) already had them for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_...

I wonder if there’s something interesting visually if this shader could be explored immersively (VR). Could be worth prototyping it on my little app :-) (https://shader.vision).

Fixed in the upcoming update. Thanks for the feedback :-)

I was recently looking for a simple minimalist app launcher for iPhone that would respect my privacy and didn’t come with a stupid subscription plan, so instead I made my own! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/applist/id6743515756

I also published the list of url schemes / universal links on GitHub: http://github.com/sxp-studio/app-list-catalog

exa.ai/givemeprize

I can see a couple ways:

- double down on influencing the agent’s choices/decision by presenting highest-bidder options (for stores, restaurants etc).

- find a way to figure out the unique user ID behind an agent (which can be trivially done once the agent logs in to say google or facebook etc)

- partnership with AI agent companies to offer their service for free / cheaper in exchange of a complete lack of privacy. For instance the agent could agree to all the cookie policies in the world and let the ad tracker know who you are.

Actually I suspect that’s where companies like Apple are going. If you look at the latest iteration of app intents, Apple is trying to define a predefined set of actions that developers can implement in their app. In turn, Apple intelligence/siri pretty much can leverage said intent when the user prompt a given task. It’s still fairly early but I could see how this would indeed converge towards that sort of paradigm.

Let’s go full meta and build a product hunt… but for product hunt alternatives!