Matthew Kennard

I’ve just started ‘playback’ of a GPX file recorded on a train through a location based app I’m working on. I feel as though I need to find a steam train soundtrack to accompany watching it to see if it works correctly.

Our bunnies needed repairing

My son is liking the new Angry Birds released on Apple Arcade today.

The children are off school for the summer holidays. As I’m working at home I am trying to decide if a noise cancelling pair of headphones is needed to keep me sane with the amount of noise they are making!

Morning walk posters

This looks an interesting suggestion from the “Classical You Must Hear This Month” playlist on Apple Music: LANDSCAPES, KNIVES & GLUE - Radiohead’s Kid A Recycled by Wooden Elephant

Tried the Beyond Burger for lunch. I was quite impressed, smelt when cooking just like a ‘real’ burger - and taste was not far off either. I’m a meat eater and my wife is a vegetarian and we both enjoyed them.

My biggest wish for iOS 15 is for AirPods to take priority over other Bluetooth speakers. So many times I’ll be listening to something on AirPods only for the audio to suddenly disappear and reappear on an Alexa which has just been turned on.

I feel as though I’m making progress with the Android ARCore task I’m working on - although painfully slowly. The Samsung S7 which I’m now using for this isn’t helping, but at least it has a compass unlike the newer Moto G9 I was using. I’ve got an S10 on order from eBay which should hopefully arrive later in the week.

Another trip to the cricket ground this morning. Now had both Covid jabs. 💉💉🦠

Android augmented reality development is, so far, a big bag of annoyances. I’ve just found out my fairly recent test device lacks a compass so isn’t going to be very useful for the exact feature I’m trying to implement.

Music Bar is a menu bar app that shows you what is currently playing on Apple Music. I’m very much enjoying this recent find. github.com/musa11971…

Birthday books

In the past I’ve been slightly scathing of using web technologies to create apps. However I’ve been investigating using Ionic for a potential client project. They already have a massive amount of code written for the web in Angular/TypeScript and this new project will need to work across platforms. It is business facing and wouldn’t be feasible with separate native apps written. Having played with Ionic this afternoon I’m impressed by how far these sorts of frameworks have come and now quite excited about recommending it for this particular project.

Pan fried sea bass and giant couscous for lunch. Working at home has definite benefits for the quality of the food I consume at lunchtime.

Finished reading: Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📚

Saturday morning craft as the children decorate mugs for a great aunt’s 70th birthday.

Shocking static on this evening news that Cornwall has vaccinated more people than the 22 poorest African countries combined.

For me this will be the best improvement to Xcode since I started using Xcode. I’m very excited.

Xcode: Vimpocalypse Now — Erica Sadun

Been playing with ScreenFlow this morning to make a video for one of my apps.

So many dandelion seeds have got caught in these plants that they look like cotton!

Starting the week off with a healthier lunch than I usually make.

My son has reached the age where I’m quite jealous of his birthday presents

Lost lego