Adding 3D special effects
The next release of Fyne will make it possible for developers to add 3D effects - see how!
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What is AI (and what is it not)?
Having made a few coding videos and previews of work going on I decided it was time for something a little different sharing my thoughts on the current state of AI! People keep asking me about GenAI / LLM and what I think about this common questions include: I thought that to help answer these points for anyone that s curious I would write
New videos now on Patreon!
It s been years since I first tried, but now I am back on Patreon with weekly videos shared for all my followers. Newsletters and tutorials all lined up to help you learn what is possible with Fyne, FyshOS and Apptrix.ai. Like that logo? Me too 🙂 my current video shows how it was built and how easily I made it into a screensaver for my
ScotSoft 2025 Dinner Address
As the Chair of the Board at ScotlandIS I am tasked with our annual address. As the content has generated a lot of comment I wanted to post it here to reach a wider audience. Feel free to get in touch to discuss any of these thoughts further I love to hear how different businesses are finding the Scottish technology ecosystem. ScotSoft Address [Evening
Goodbye social media
It’s been a hectic few months with work and travel and a whole lot of community activity. It’s been tough to take the time to focus on what matters, but thankfully we were able to take a short break to DisneyLand Paris! I highly recommend the park atmosphere for the escapism. It’s a chance to forget everything and think just about what ride to head
An Honoured Start to 2025
Happy New Year if it s not too late. I like to keep celebrating the fresh opportunities of a year changing until we hit February. In each of my interactions this month I have been discussing the fact that 2025 looks like it will be better than the 2 years before. With economic improvements, further distance from lock-downs and being a year further down the preparation
Holiday Coding
It s the holiday season which means, apart from family and abundant eating and drinking, it s time to sit down and get some coding projects done. I don t know if others find this too, but I love the opportunity to step away from work and progress projects that have gone dreamed of but otherwise not progressed. So here are a few tasty morsels that I am
Don’t control my font size
Configuring text size and the preference of light mode / dark mode is pretty much universal even Microsoft Windows has added support for this at some level. It s been baked into most mobile systems for many years, and Linux for over a decade. And yet we are still writing emails using HTML formatting as though how we (the sender) know best how the recipient
First time as a podcast host!
After just 3 podcast appearances across Go Time and Cup-o-Go I was super excited to be invited by the Cup-o-Go hosts to step in and cover a week off for Shay. What an honour, and what fun! I ve never co-hosted a podcast before and I enjoyed it very much. I hope you enjoyed that instalment of Go news and events coverage. You can listen to
Gooey Podcast :)
Last week I had a really fun evening because the great team at ChangeLog put together a Go Time podcast episode about cross-platform graphical user interfaces. Lea Anthony and myself were invited to talk about the Wails and Fyne toolkits for GUI app building. Thanks also to Mat Ryer and Natalie Pistunovich for being welcoming and engaging hosts of the recording. Hopefully this offers a