WWDC 2016 Liveblog: Like It’s 1999
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I’ve been looking for a nice blogging tool that isn’t WordPress for a while. Dave Winer just showed an interesting solution called 1999. He calls it “blogging like it’s 1999”. The name is a bit awkward, but Dave Winer can get away with it.
Just a textbox for the post. Done.
A nice extra: it’s also a liveblog. Readers connect to the server over WebSockets and get updates pushed to them in real time.
We’re testing it tonight during the WWDC keynote at live.hetzel.net
Thanks to the many hundreds of people who followed live. The archive follows, then the server will be shut down.
21:03: Thanks for reading. This page will be archived in the regular blog shortly. Bits und so ReLive Tuesday night, with STICKERS.
21:02: That was surprisingly thin. Let’s see what the week brings. Nonsense. Listen to BUS 474 :)
21:01: Tomorrow’s developers will get the email one day too: Rejected.
20:56: Game Boy emulator incoming.
20:52: Swift Playgrounds will never make it through the review mines.
20:47: And now for the D in WWDC.
20:42: Notes instead of Quip!
20:41: Eddy dances.
20:37: Stickers. Finally.
20:36: Looking forward to the edited version without the mistake.
20:32: The iMessage demo.
20:31: Where are the stickers?
20:28: Craig notices Happy Families™ for the first time.
20:26: WhatsApp in the Phone app. If only I could tell Madame WhatsApp…
20:25: Voicemail transcription: Hello, Dr. Horn!
20:21: HomeKit. For real this time, I swear.
20:18: Eddy didn’t dance. Phew.
20:14: Thick cables on the iMacs. Updates: oops, exceeded the Backblaze B2 quota for the images.
20:13: Music.
20:11: Maps extensions could also rein in some of the nonsense in Germany.
20:08: Maps. Scrolling while navigating.
20:03: Remember when iPhoto took days to find faces?
20:01: Multilingual keyboard. I’ll believe it when I see the garden hose.
19:59: Intents API. Where have I heard that before?
19:58: Hey Siri, lock the front door. 😱
19:57: Did Voice Search just sneak in there?
19:53: Lock screen. This neglected surface for the last ten years?
19:52: iOS X.
19:51: Will YouTube support this picture-in-picture?
19:48: Nobody tags their files. Right?
19:46: Siri doesn’t understand you either. But on the Mac.
19:44: Apple Pay for Switzerland, France, Hong Kong. Which country is missing from the list?
19:42: The whole user folder is a Dropbox? The same mess on all the machines. Yay.
19:40: Auto-login will surely work as well as Mac ID.
19:38: Sierra.
19:37: macOS.
19:35: Can I cancel Maxdome with single sign-on too?
19:34: What was that football tournament? Never heard of it.
19:33: No general Siri integration? Only for YouTube? Boo.
19:32: 1,300 video channels. Does that include Bits und so?
19:30: Half an hour. Eddy. Make TV.
19:26: Could use a sleep-tracker app for my Watch right about now. 😴
19:25: No wonder there was no room for the subscription changes here.
19:20: Enough Watch now. The iMovie themes were more exciting.
19:19: Scribble works in English and Chinese. German, impossible. Umlauts, people!
19:14: She didn’t click the strap shut. You just can’t do it without looking weird. Update: managed it during the applause.
19:12: Football complication. I thought Siri was responsible for that.
19:10: OS X. Still.
19:08: Mac innovative, iPhone best smartphone, iPad magical pane of glass, Watch very healthy, ATV: the future with apps. Haven’t we taken on a bit much?
19:07: Four platforms. iPhone, uh. Whew, difficult. Was there something else?
19:05: $50 billion paid out. $45 billion of it delivered in handy Smurfberry carts.
19:03: Syntax highlighting on the slides: clown mode.
19:02: There would be room for a car on this stage, wouldn’t there?
19:01: At least a two-minute delay on the stream.
18:59: OH: “Where is that awful music coming from?”
18:56: Hey Siri, remind me about Tripadvisor.
18:55: Is the stream skipping, or did Zane Lowe misclick in his excitement over the listeners?
18:52: Apple’s HLS segment-length recommendation: 10 seconds in 2012, 6 seconds in 2015. The 2016 keynote stream uses 13 seconds, adding a little system delay and giving the CDN more time to settle.
18:49: The stream is doing a household-standard 960×400 (?)
18:46: Direct stream: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/m3u8/hls_mvp.m3u8LQ: http://appleliveevents-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/222436/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/master/1200/1200.m3u8HQ: http://appleliveevents-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/222436/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/master/2500/2500.m3u8
18:44: Jony is in the room. Group iMessage demo with Eddy and Craig?
18:40: Boinx orders food.
18:35: Whatever happened to Beats 1?
18:31: Watch Basti Wölfle watching the boring 2D WWDC stream in 360°: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEB2_YQgkU
17:52: Last hopes for Snow Capitan with Alex on a Slack call put to rest.
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