Sometimes your adventures take you where there is no data service. You can load the map beforehand, but if you accidentally exit the app, there is no way to get it back. Luckily Google Maps and a nifty feature that lets you download maps to use offline. …

I want ‘White Mirror’ and techno-optimism. — Ryan Hoover asked a fun question on Twitter: Using AI, I summarized all the replies. Movies where AI is the good guy: “Transformers” (Movie series) — AI character: Optimus Prime “Robot and Frank” (Movie) — AI character: Robot “Spielberg’s version of Stanley Kubrik’s AI” (Movie) — AI character not specifically mentioned “Iron Man” from Marvel Cinematic…

Any handheld, hand-pumped air supply is dangerous without training, don’t buy them — Instagram is showing a lot of ads for ‘hand-pumped scuba tanks’. There are a bunch of different brand names, all selling the same product. (Maybe from the same outsourced manufacturer.) These brands have names like: Scopel Scorkl Smaco Lung T MiniDive Whatever the brand name, don’t buy one, they are…

Listening to your users is good —

Yes, you can do it, no apps needed. —

Overall disappointing, no Hall of Fame entries in 2023, but there were a few good ones. — The Super Bowl is a yearly mini film festival for advertising. With 30 seconds costing 7 million dollars this year, brands try to bring their best. For the third year in a row, I spent longer watching Super Bowl commercials than I did the actual Super Bowl, just so I…

The consumer version of a false invoice scam — Got a funny email today. Looked like a scam or phishing email. I checked and it is actually from PayPal (which is easy to spoof so still didn’t trust it). I opened a new window and logged into PayPal (NEVER click a link in a suspicious email. Always directly go…

Here are all the main ways, from easiest to hardest, to run Stable Diffusion on a Mac. Download DiffusionBee (easy) Use a web UI (medium) Run directly from the Terminal (hard) Run online (not local, can cost money) I write a free weekly newsletter about AI and how to use…

These are the best portfolio and personal websites I’ve seen, + 1 reason why. — Bruno Simon - Creative developer Creative developer living in Paris, freelancer, former lead developer at Immersive Garden, former developer at Uzik and…bruno-simon.com Why: Incredibly creative. You drive a little truck around. His website is basically a game. Josh W Comeau As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great…www.joshwcomeau.com