Audelin: Reading While the Words Arrive
Speaker symbols, readable selections and a viewport that stays put make Audelin's live transcript easier to follow while the conversation continues.
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Audelin's live transcript used to rebuild the whole call whenever a word changed. Making the work follow the live tail brought a late view update from hundreds of milliseconds to about one.
Mizan BLE: the Till Next Door
A phone that pays at a till must never pay the till next door. How Mizan BLE picks the nearest host by smoothed signal strength, what a real iPad and iPhone measured, why the first picker flickered at arm's length, and what iOS does not let a Bluetooth payment do.
Mizan BLE: Every Way a Transaction Ends
A payment over Bluetooth has one way to succeed and many ways to stop. How Mizan BLE splits each side into a chain of state machines, why the countdown stops once the amount is sent, and how an iPad ends a link it is not allowed to close.
Mizan BLE: a Payment Between an iPad and an iPhone over Bluetooth
Mizan BLE is a proof of concept in which an iPad at the till and a payer's iPhone agree a payment over Bluetooth Low Energy. What it is, which device plays which Bluetooth role, and how the four characteristics of one service carry a whole transaction.
FolioTell: Where Am I in This Text?
Skipping by sentence and resuming where you stopped sound trivial. In FolioTell they meant mapping UTF-16 offsets from the speech engine back to sentences in the original text.
FolioTell: a Speech Synthesizer Behind a Reducer
AVSpeechSynthesizer is asynchronous and full of late callbacks. How FolioTell keeps playback correct with pure reducers, effect handlers and utterance tokens.
What’s new in Swift 5.7
A link to Paul Hudson’s What’s new in Swift 5.7
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