Tag: apps

  • Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features

    Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features

    Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends’ flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many…

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  • AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem

    Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding: I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that…

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  • Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms

    Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms

    For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology.” There, resilience means ” taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want…

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  • Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…

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  • Another go at LowCode

    Another go at LowCode: It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few other people) and only for as long as the creator wants to keep the…

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  • What’s next in Sora

    Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora

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  • 10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most? – Feels like it’s primarily about supporting programming, not doing things in apps. // Not sure about the methodology and source for this chart, tho.

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  • INFILTRATE. SURVEY. PERCEIVE by Reyes Makes Games – This is fun, kind of pranky game to play in a house with others.

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  • alto.index – Transform Your Apple Apps Data into AI-Ready Markdown – Export stuff from your Apple apps.

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  • Google Translate Can Now Be Set as the Default Translation App on iOS – Set your Apple stuff to use Google Translate as the translation service.

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  • Gartner Survey Finds 77% of Engineering Leaders Identify AI Integration in Apps as a Major Challenge – ”Seventy-seven percent of engineering leaders identify building AI capabilities into applications to improve features and functionality as a significant or moderate pain point, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey also found that the use of…

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  • Augmented Coding: an Experience Report – Getting an app released requires so many things that humans will always find something to do, and more that can now be done better.

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  • Drive Scale And Speed With The Platform Org Model – 59% of respondents have using a platform instead of whole bunch of different platforms as a priority. // Enterprise want the benefits of centralized, standardized IT stacks. Always. DIY platforms and shadow platforms (sprawl od accidental platforms) is often a bad idea. Your platform needs…

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  • Where do modernized apps go to live?

    Where do modernized apps go to live?

    Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451: Recent Content Three things for you today: The private cloud equilibrium – my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser – this week’s…

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  • Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption – “As evidence of progress, CFO Mark Mason pointed to 450 apps retired by the bank since the start of the year. Citi has reduced tech sprawl by eliminating 1,250 apps in the last two years, Mason said.” // Thinks of all the zombie apps like…

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  • Are Kids Screenable? – New screen time app. It sounds like it actually integrates with iOS stuff, which I didn’t even know was possible.

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  • Croissant – Good looking cross posting app for Mastodon, BlueSky, and Threads. Adding in Shortcut support would be awesome.

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  • Some advice and good practices when integrating an LLM in your application – Yup!

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  • Embracing AI To Augment, Not Replace, The Status Quo – Ideating AI apps: ‘1. Be on the lookout for processes that don’t scale well by adding more resources, are somehow constrained by human involvement, or could be improved if the human actor had more information. 2. Once you identify the process ask yourself either “How…

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  • To Improve Your Mean Time to Recovery, Start at the Beginning – How to think about securing your cloud native apps, and apps in general.

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