I am getting close to the point where I have to do proper styling, proportion adjustments and other finishing touches for my Endirillia model before actually rigging it and getting it loaded into a 3D engine and hooking it up to my personal assistant. What I learned at this point is that a good reference sheet for a character helps a lot, but due to my rather limited artistic skills I decided to commission the work.
When I started remodeling my office things got a bit out of hand. Since I did not fancy setting up my workstation I simply connected the iPad to one of the Pro Display XDRs, pulled out the travel keyboard and trackpad and used it for a week as primary computing device. So far, so good — I already wrote about my experience using the iPad for software development last year when we got a major revamp of iPadOS.
I was fairly certain that I am done with Apple, Xcode and their developer experience. Yet here we are, having a CI job that needs to sign a binary. One thing I noticed using mostly web apps for my personal assistant is that I actually miss native apps. They just look and feel nicer. So, given that I cannot delete my dev account, why not use it and get a little app for my coding assistant going?
It is time to give my personal AI access to more of my data, so it can start answering questions with context and in a more relevant way. As part of this I wanted to address something I have been thinking about for a long time, funneling most of my data into a searchable PostgreSQL database. Obviously this will not be your typical data warehouse, I do not expect more than a few gigabyte of data to accumulate over a year.
For a very long time I was a triple screen enjoyer. Nicely symmetrical and it made it easy to split IDE, chat and documentation across multiple screens. When I got a Pro Display XDR I was on the fence if I should just keep one or two of the 5k LG displays around, but the difference in dpi was too noticeable and it threw me off. So I got a second Pro Display XDR. Turned out that was not the best idea (but not for the reasons you might think).