Hello! My name is Geof. I am a freelance interactive designer with over eight years of experience. I like to make really nice apps and websites. I'm currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah.
There’s a million different tough to navigate websites that have all the days and times for local canyons. This collection is mostly for my benefit, but if it helps others, even better! Utah Road Status Alpine Loop (Highway 92) Website The Alpine Loop is open from approximately late May to late October. There’s an additional road that connects to Heber. Big Mountain Pass (SR 65) The road over this…
The Verge: Lisa’s Family Photos Today, in partnership with The Computer History Museum, we’re excited to share another part of what makes the Lisa feel, well, human: a selection of exclusive Polaroid photos from the Lisa’s development taken by Bill Atkinson, the designer and developer of the computer’s graphical user interface. Atkinson sat down with CHM for an interview about his time at Apple…
Alongside the source code is this a great post about the place in history that the Lisa had in the development of GUIs. The Lisa: Apple’s Most Influential Failure Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, CHM has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa software, including its system and applications software. The…
typeof.net/Iosevka/ Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents. While not quite as visually pleasing as IBM Plex , Iosevka looks like a great alternative supporting a monospaced version that has a classic terminal feel to it. Edit I recently saw Berkeley Mono (…
The Verge Often going back to play classic games like this can be a reality check. There have been plenty of times when I’ve popped in an old cartridge only to realize that these games I grew up with just don’t look the way I remember them. But that hasn’t been the case this time — in fact, they’ve looked better than ever. This is the promise of the Analogue Pocket. … The biggest change, though,…
I was lucky to be able to get a 14" M1 Max configuration on launch day at my local Apple store. I posted a few observations to a Twitter thread . If you have any questions I might be able to answer, please ask me there! Assorted Reviews Jason Snell The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed…
Playdate Website It's a new, tiny handheld game system with a bunch of brand-new games. We made Playdate just for fun. That's not all. We're lining up more games, and we're working on cool ways to distribute them. Stay tuned. You will also be able to make your own Playdate games, as our SDK – coming soon – will be free to download, no special hardware required. And with our Pulp game maker, all…
copetti.org The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries. This console will carry on using Nintendo’s signature GPU. Additionally, it will introduce a relatively new CPU from a UK company that will surge in popularity in the years to come. Note that both CPUs will never run at the same time or do any fancy co-processing. The…
For the last two years, I’ve been working on a massive rewrite of Air Lookout. It finally launched last week. Learning On The Go When Voyager was launched in 1977, radio technology at the time wouldn’t have been able to send or receive communications at the distance from Earth that Voyager is today. Fortunately for the Voyager team, advances in radio technology has progressed faster than the speed…
Many Apple developers and rumor followers have been expecting or hoping for ARM based macs in the near future. The performance of the A12 and A13 powered iPhone and iPad has surpassed the performance of their Intel powered mac laptops and desktops in certain areas. The Verge: Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac : Apple will release its first Mac powered by an ARM…
I have been using the guetzli image encoder from Google and I’m really impressed with the results that it is able to deliver. Here’s a quick comparison using a photo that I recently took with an iPhone Xs that would potentially be a problematic image for most JPEG encoders. It is straight from the camera and not edited. Below are all 800× 600 crops of the encoded images exported at 200% as a PNG…
This documentary mostly follows AlphaGo (Google’s Go playing AI) competing against Lee Sedol (one of the top ranked Go player in the world). I don’t know much about Go but I found the documentary to be extremely interesting. I strongly believe that computers should be used to make humanity smarter and not to be a crutch to make us dumber. It’s amazing to watch AlphaGo be a catalyst for one of the…
The inside-story of what it takes to win sailing’s iconic race around the world, and the ultimate test of a team in professional sport. Seven fully professional sailing teams battle to claim ocean racing’s greatest prize, in a race that covers 11 legs over 45,000 nautical miles, taking in 12 major cities and six continents. I am forever fascinated by extreme endurance challenges. There aren't many…
Apple: Pointers (iPadOS) : iPadOS 13.4 introduces dynamic pointer effects and behaviors that enhance the experience of using a pointing device with iPad. As people use a pointing device, iPadOS automatically adapts the pointer to the current context, providing rich visual feedback and just the right level of precision needed to enhance productivity and simplify common tasks. … With a content…
Apple: New Magic Keyboard Designed for iPad Pro Features a Floating Design, Backlit Keyboard and Trackpad, Delivering the Best Typing Experience Ever on iPad : With iPadOS 13.4, Apple brings trackpad support to iPad, giving customers an all-new way to interact with their iPad. Rather than copying the experience from macOS, trackpad support has been completely reimagined for iPad. As users move…
Fabien Sanglard: The Story of the 3DFX Voodoo 1 : Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, and Gary Tarolli originally met while working at SGI[4]. After a short stint at Pellucid where they tried to sell IrisVision boards for PC (at 1994 $4,000/piece), they started their own company with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm. Headquartered in San Jose, California, 3dfx Interactive was founded in 1994. It…
This article explains how the Zip file format and its compression scheme work in great detail: LZ77 compression, Huffman coding, Deflate and all. It tells some of the history, and provides a reasonably efficient example implementation written from scratch in C. … There are two main ingredients in Zip compression: Lempel-Ziv compression and Huffman coding. This is a really intriguing article…
The Verge : Because ultimately, that’s the story with the Mac Pro: the hardware is way, way ahead of software support. When we ran benchmark tests that pushed the GPUs, they turned in solid numbers, but so few apps were optimized to use Apple’s Metal graphics system that we basically never saw that performance in action during our day-to-day work. The Verge: Six professionals review the Mac Pro…
After posting about the OpenStep User Interface Guide , I started to wonder how many different human interface guides or software design guides that I could find from the past and present. It doesn’t seem like there’s a good collection of these anywhere on the internet, especially in regard to past software design guides. I think there’s a lot of value in these even outside of just being a…
While looking at Nextspace , a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux, I saw a link to the OpenStep Interface Guidelines PDF . I am weirdly nostalgic for this era of computing and the interface advancements made during this time. There were some incredibly smart people figuring out a lot of the paradigms that we are familiar with ( that we can't seem to replicate today…
This approximately hour long documentary follows Josh Ibbett tackle the brutally long Tour Divide race in 2019. While the film is short on narration, you can definitely see the miles stack up in Josh’s eyes (and on his bike ). I’d recommend saving to watch this on a TV. I’m certainly dreaming of summer riding weather now. Also recommended: I Just Want To Ride—Lael Wilcox and the 2019 Tour Divide
Apple: Buy Mac Pro , Apple: Mac Pro Tech Specs Processor : Configure from an 8‑core to 28‑core Intel Xeon W processor Memory : Configure up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory in 12 user-accessible DIMM slots Graphics : Configure two MPX Modules with up to four GPUs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo Two Vega II GPUs, each with 64 compute units and 4096 stream processors 64GB of HBM2 memory (32GB per GPU), each…
Jason Snell at sixcolors.com / Key upgrade: A first look at the 16-inch MacBook Pro On Wednesday Apple announced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a completely redesigned keyboard, bigger display, increased battery life, ninth-generation Intel processors, upgraded graphics processors, expanded storage, and improved audio input and output. And despite the rumors that Apple’s newest laptop would be a…
Jason Snell at Six Colors / macOS Catalina review: New era ahead, proceed with caution Sometimes software upgrades just fuzz together, all part of a continuum of changes over time. Others are more momentous, when there’s a clean break from what has come before. After a few years of fuzzy updates, macOS Catalina is one of those clean breaks. ... If you need to upgrade but have one key app you just…
There were a lot of different dates thrown around yesterday at Apple's iPhone Event . I collected all of the OS release dates that they announced in the table below. OS Release Date iOS 13 September 19, 2019 watchOS 6 September 19, 2019 1 iOS 13.1 September 30 24 3 , 2019 iPadOS 2 September 30 24 3 , 2019 tvOS September 30, 2019 macOS 10.15 Catalina October 2019 HomePod ? 1 watchOS 6 will be…