Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS

Apple has been using machine learning in their products for a long time: Siri answers our questions and entertains us, iPhoto recognizes faces in our photos, Mail app detects spam messages. As app developers, we have access to some capabilities exposed by Apple’s APIs such as face detection, and starting with iOS 10, we’ll gain […]

Elegance – The Future Is Now

Looking at these PCM files gave me a new appreciation for design, and helped me appreciate more how important it is to understand the reason behind design decisions. In a lot of ways this format feels like it should be “bad” design: it’s strange, it’s idiosyncratic, it’s internally inconsistent. But every single detail is carefully […]

Setting up Travis CI for Jekyll to build and deploy – Hannan’s fascinations

I just set up first ever Continuous Integration Build Process using TravisCI, TravisCI, is pretty cool, super simple, and a joy to use. This build process was setup for this very blog, in order to save me hassle of rebuilding the whole blog manually and then deploying it manually too. Life was never so fun. […]