Vic Hudson
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  • That season finale of For All Mankind was pretty great too. That’s 2 for 2 great shows of the Apple TV+ content I’ve watched so far.

    21 December 2019
  • Man, I just want to say The Morning Show is great TV. I’m sad we’ll have to wait so long for more of it.

    21 December 2019
  • It’s beginning to look like Christmas 🎄

    15 December 2019
  • There’s a new BubbleSort Show episode being recorded in just under 24 hours. I may have a few things to say.

    29 November 2019
  • Apple not including the new 16” MacBook Pro in their Black Friday deal is just a money grubbing dick move.

    People have literally been waiting years for this laptop & many will be bumping up the specs for way more than the margin increase to offset that $200 anyway.

    29 November 2019
  • Got it in a loop, one of those kind of days.😭 🎶 🎸

    Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

    21 November 2019
  • Strutting this fresh cut for the start of flannel season!!!

    13 October 2019
  • I’ve been teasing new changes in the pipeline for BubbleSort. Those changes still aren’t quite ready yet but the site updates to support them are. Go have a look! It’ll be easy to find and subscribe to your favorite shows in your favorite podcatcher!

    7 October 2019
  • So much 📺 & so little time. I gotta find some time & people interested in podcasting some of these with or without me for BubbleSort TV. Anyone interested please hit me up!!

    6 October 2019
  • Anyone else tried this shared audio feature out yet?

    It took a few seconds to get it going but it works quite well.

    5 October 2019
  • Who else is playing with shortcuts? I made this one to have Siri record my Blood Pressure.

    29 September 2019
  • I’m calling this fish fry a success!!!

    29 September 2019
  • This is getting ready to be some good air fryer catfish, a colossal mess or all of the above.

    29 September 2019
  • Autumn Cookout FTW!! My Xs Max and the Wife’s iPhone 11 comparison.

    28 September 2019
  • Just another little Saturday cookout. 😎

    14 September 2019
  • Who’s the grill master? Say my name. 😎

    17 August 2019
  • Keeping it light tonight with some sausage and squash. 😎

    22 June 2019
  • I’ve been reconnecting with my country music roots lately and I put together this little beauty. Ultimate Essential Country Music. 🎵

    The ultimate collection of great country music compiled from  Music playlists 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s Country Essentials, Country Jukebox Essentials, Outlaw Country Essentials, Country Roads, Back Porch Country, Country Lovin’, Broken Down and rounded out with my own Dierks Bentley Mix for good measure. Best played on shuffle.

    16 June 2019
  • Cheers! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday!! Green Beans, Broccoli 🥦, mushrooms 🍄, salmon, baked potatoes 🥔 and a little steak 🥩 with peanuts 🥜 and a good drink 🥃 for the grill!

    14 June 2019
  • There’s a lot of great 📺 I’d like to cover on BubbleSort TV that I don’t have time for right now. #BigLittleLies & #HandMaidsTale just to name a few. It would be awesome if anyone’s interested in getting on 🎙 to cover them. Women would be great, but anyone can hit me up!!

    13 June 2019
  • A few quick WWDC notes for tomorrow's BubbleSort Show

    Just a few quick #WWDC notes for tomorrow’s @BubbleSortShow recording. This should be a good one!

    • Intro Video
      • Meh
    • Far All Man Kind trailer from Ron Moore
      • This looks pretty good actually
        • good premise and cast.
        • Ron Moore is a Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica veteran
    • tv+ update
    • tvOS
      • multi user support for tv app and music
        • It’s about damned time!!!!
      • New music display with lyrics
      • Apple Arcade.
        • PS and Xbox controllers
      • Screensavers
        • Under the sea looks good
        • I can hear Sebastian singing now😂
    • watchOS 6
      • Kevin Lynch
      • new faces
        • Gradient
        • Large Numerals
        • Modern Digital
        • California Dial
        • Analog Solar
      • Taptic Chimes on the hour
        • Captured Recorded in  Park 😂
      • New  Apps
        • Audio Books
        • Voice Memos
        • Calculator
          • Why wasn’t this there from the beginning???
          • I mean calculator watches have been a thing since the 80s right?
      • New Developer Features
        • Independent Apps
          • No iOS companion app needed.
        • Extended time and sensor access
          • PT sessions
            • Stupid collar bone
          • Teeth Brushing timer
          • Meditation
        • Streaming audio api support
          • Podcast app developers and users of the world rejoice!!
      • App Store on the watch
        • This actually looks nicely done
        • Support for browsing searching and purchase/downloading all right on the watch
      • New Health & Fitness Capabilities
        • Dr Sumble Desai - no idea how that’s really spelled
        • Activity App updates
          • Activity Trends
            • Good progress tracking of some key metrics
            • Looks like this is only in the iOS app
          • Hearing Health
            • Noise app
              • Constant sampling for db rating with alerts for high ratings
              • no recording, saving or uploading of data
            • Menstrual Cycle Tracking
              • looks pretty good actually
              • Notifications for cycle and fertility window
              • Also in health on iOS with no watch
          • Kevin’s back
          • Health App Updates & Redesign - iOS
            • New Summary View
              • Notifications
              • Favorites
              • Highlights
      • Demo by watchOS program lead Haley Allen
        • faces
          • Modular Compact
            • Noise complication
          • Infograph Modular update
            • Audio books complication
          • Now Playing Screen is more specific to the app playing
          • Gradient face
          • The App Store
            • Browse reviews & screenshots.
            • Direct downloads
          • MLB app to demo live streaming.
            • Scott will love that
        • Kevin’s Back again
          • Shazam built in
            • That acquisition finally pays off
          • automatic software updates
          • New pride edition band
    • Tim’s Back for customer sat report on iOS.
      • Slamming the Android adoption rates hard
    • iOS 13
      • Craig Federighi
      • Performance
        • Faster Face ID by 30%
        • Smaller app downloads
        • Twice as fast app launch speeds
      • Dark Mode
        • nice jelly fish😂
        • system wide
        • Apps demonstrated
          • News
          • Calendar
          • Notes
          • Messages
            • Keyboard looks nice and has swipe built in
          • Photos
            • The dark mode team photos were funny.
          • New share sheet
            • Sharing suggestions
          • Music
            • I like the dark mode app
            • Time sync lyrics
      • System apps
        • Safari
          • quick setting changes like font size
          • Per website preferences
        • Mail
          • Rich fonts and desktop class text formatting
        • Notes
          • Gallery View
          • Shared Folders
        • Reminders
          • Natural language reminder creation
          • Quick Type Bar
            • Attachments etc
          • Tasks
            • Organize to do items with a top level reminder
          • Smart Lists
          • tag people with message integration
        • Maps
          • impressive rebuild with more detail
          • Us roll out this year - Sorry Chidgey
          • Meg Frost director of product design
          • New launch screen
            • Favorites
            • Collections - lists of faves and related locations
          • look around window ala street view
            • Pretty Impressive
          • Craig’s Back
          • Junction View
          • ETA Sharing
        • Privacy pitch
          • location services
            • New 1 time allowance
            • Background tracking alerts
            • Wifi and Bluetooth protections
          • Login
            • Screw you FB & Google
            • Sign In With 
              • Simple api for devs
              • Uses a dummy account with no personal info
              • Choose to share your email or use a dummy email that forwards to your real one.
              • A different dummy email for each app
          • HomeKit
            • HomeKit secure video
              • Handled on local devices no unencrypted data sent
              • Data saved for 10 days without impacting your storage quota
            • HomeKit enabled routers
              • Firewalls smart devices for protection
        • Messages
          • Share photo and name with people you message
          • Improvements to Memoji demo
            • Cool demo but seriously does anyone use Memoji?
          • Memoji stickers
            • Nice system keyboard integration
            • A9 chip or later
        • Camera
          • Portrait Lightening Enhancements
        • Photos
          • New photo editor
          • Much better video edits with rotation, filters and effects
          • Browsing improvement
            • Deduping and clutter removal
            • Intelligent organizing
            • New photos tab
            • Demo Justin TT - Leader of Photos Team
              • fast fluid change from years, months or days
              • Nice dynamic display of section covers
      • Craig’s Back
      • Stacy Lysic senior director of OS product management
      • Airpods
        • Siri reads messages and lets you reply
        • Audio Sharing
      • HomePod
        • Handoff to and from other devices by proximity
        • Live radio via iHeart, TuneIn and Radio.com
          • 100,000 stations
        • Personalized responses based on who’s talking
        • Personalized music, messages, notes, reminders phone and calendar
        • OMFG this is truly the year they figured out we have families
      • CarPlay
        • Improved dashboard
        • Redesigned apps
        • Siri support for 3rd party apps.
      • Siri
        • Shortcuts
          • Now built in and more powerful
          • the gateway for all shortcuts
        • more natural cadence and emphasis during speech
          • Nueral text to speech
          • Entirely software generated speech via machine learning.
      • Craig’s back with other miscellaneous iOS 13 improvements
        • Send the dreaded “Unknown Caller” directly to voice mail
          • Should’ve been a tent pole feature in my book
        • Low data mode
        • Multiple iCloud accounts for work & home
        • Enterprise Single Sign On
    • iPadOS
      • Demo video
        • Meh
      • Today widgets pinned on home screen
      • Multi tasking
        • Slide over
          • Slid over multi tasks just like iPhone
        • Split View
          • Multi window app support
            • This is actually huge
          • app exposè
          • better composing
      • Files
        • Column View with preview and actions inspector
        • iCloud Drive folder sharing
        • SMB file Sharing
        • External storage and better camera support
      • Safari
        • Desktop class browsing
        • Download Manager
        • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Custom Fonts downloadable from the App Store
      • text editing
        • Grab and scroll from indicator
        • Improved cursor relocation
        • Improved dragging for text selection
        • 3 finger copy/paste/undo
      • Pencil Improvements
        • reduced latency by over 50%
        • redesigned tool pallet
        • PencilKit dev API
      • Demo Toby Patterson senior director of iPad system experience
        • that shrinking keyboard is nice
        • Movable pencil tool pallet
        • great corner pencil drag to get to markup
    • Tim’s Back
    • Mac Pro
      • Demo Video
      • that thing looks more like a cheese grater than the original
      • John Turnis
      • Stainless steel frame and handles allow easy customization
      • 28 core 300 watt intel Xeon processor
      • 12 ram slots over 6 channels
      • 2933MHz ECC ram
      • 1.5TB of ram supported
      • Expansion
        • 8 PCI slots
          • 4 double wide
          • 3 single wide
          • 1 ½ length slot with io card
            • 2 thunderbolt 3 ports with 2 additional ports on the top of the case
            • 2 usb a ports
            • 3.5 mm audio jack
        • 2 gigabit Ethernet ports
        • MPX Expansion Module
          • Standard PCI connector reverse compatibility
          • Extended for thunderbolt, display port and power
          • That’s a heat sink
          • the worlds most powerful graphics card
          • Infinity Fabric Link
          • Supports two cards per module
          • Two modules supported
      • Afterburner
        • Hardware accelerated card for video editing in native formats
        • 3 8K streams
        • 12 4K streams
      • 1.4 kW power supply
      • 300 CFPM airflow via 3 fans
      • Optional wheels
      • worked with many industry software and content creators
      • Demo David Earl pro apps marketing team
        • new version of logic
          • 1000 tracks 🤯
          • 56 threads across 28 cores
        • final cut
          • 8K pro res raw
          • Real time effects rendering
          • 3 8K streams one hundred million pixels
      • Back to John
      • Colleen Ovielli - Mac Product Marketing team
      • Pro Display XDR
        • 32 inch 6K Retina display
        • 6016 x 3384
        • 218 PPI
        • P3 wife color
        • 10 bit color
        • Reference mode
        • Super wide viewing angle
        • Anti reflective coating
        • Matte option
        • Extreme HDR
        • rear lattice Heat sink
        • 1000 nits sustained
        • 1600 nits peak
        • 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
      • 4 of these supported on the Mac Pro
      • Pricing - all available in fall
        • Mac Pro starting config
          • 8 core Xeon
          • 32GB ram
          • Radeon Pro 580X
          • 256GB SSD
          • From $5,999
          • Available in rack mount
        • Pro Display XDR - $4,999
          • Nano Texture version $5,999
          • pro stand $999
          • vesa mount $199
    • macOS
      • Craig is back
      • Catalina
      • iTunes - Pour one out for a fallen homie
        • Music
          • There had better be catalog and meta data management options as well as smart playlists.
        • Podcasts
          • Search powered by ML indexing of content
        • tv
          • Finally! No more browser viewing
          • 4K playback
          • Dolby Atmos
        • iOS devices sync directly from Finder Sidebar
      • Sidecar
        • iPad as secondary display
        • Pencil support
        • 3rd party dev support
      • Accessability
        • Voice control
          • Demo
          • Very powerful
      • Find My iPhone/Friends
        • Now available on Mac
        • Can locate devices that are offline
          • BT Beacon enabled
      • Activation Lock
      • System Apps
        • Photos
        • Safari start page
        • Notes gallery view
        • Screen Time
      • Catalyst (AKA Marzipan)
        • UIKit apps on the Mac
        • Devs add a new target to existing iOS projects in Xcode and get a lot for free out of the box
        • Twitter is coming back 🤦🏻‍♂️
        • Atlassian senior iOS engineer Rob Chatfield
          • Jira coming to Mac
    • AR
      • RealityKit
        • Native swift api
      • Reality Composer
        • Build AR models and experiences in Xcode or iOS
      • ARKit 3
        • People Occlusion
        • MineCraft Demo
    • SwiftUI
      • New declarative UI framework
      • significantly much less code
      • Interactive dev experiment Xcode
      • SwiftUI demo - Josh Schaffer head of iOS UI frameworks
        • this is pretty mind blowing
      • Available on all platforms including watchOS and macOS
      • Provides bindings to controls.
    8 June 2019
  • Updated my Game of Thrones coding music playlist with the score for season 8. That’s the best thing that came from season 8. 😉 🎼 🎵

    Game of Thrones Album Art

    22 May 2019
  • This is the best thing to come from #GameOfThrones season 8!!

    ‎Game of Thrones: Season 8 (Music from the HBO Series) by Ramin Djawadi on Apple Music

    20 May 2019
  • My friend @Moze was kind enough to have me on his @TeeVeeNet #Daredevil podcast discussing Daredevil: S3E9 “Revelations”. It was a lot of fun.

    19 May 2019
  • Dark Screens

    I’ve been having some discussions with friends online and in real life about the most recent Game of Thrones episode. The discussion taking place is that it was too dark for people to enjoy or even tell what was going on in some cases. I’d like to share some thoughts about this but first throw out a few caveats.

    • If a viewer found a show to dark to see it and enjoy it that is bad.
    • This isn’t said viewers fault.
    • There are people to blame for this but I don’t think it’s the show creators.
    • I am most definitely not saying anyone is using their tv wrong.

    Okay, on to my thoughts. The general consensus is that this was primarily due to streaming compression and tv sets that aren’t properly calibrated. I’m inclined to believe this because I and many other viewers did not find the show too dark to enjoy or tell what was going on. Does this mean the experience didn’t royally suck for the ones who experienced it? Absolutely not, it totally sucks for them and I am empathetic to them. This was an episode we waited many years for and to have that happened really blows regardless of the reason.

    So if I don’t blame the show creators, who should I blame? I believe that’s primarily on HBO. They run the stream. They decide the compression levels to apply when streaming the show. They also should’ve known how important this episode was to fans. They would have known this was going to be a night battle episode the creators wanted to have realistic lighting effects for it. They should’ve bumped up the quality to bandwidth ratio a little more for this episode. They could’ve even done a test pattern PSA about tv black level calibration before the show. It wasn’t too long ago we used to see these before movies on physical media we all have forgotten about. It’s not a far stretch to say many people don’t even realize their tv has never been calibrated or that they can do so, resulting in drastic differences in picture quality.

    I’ve been called a TV apologist and maybe that’s true. I probably don’t have an objective perspective to rule that out in fairness. I would still like to take a moment to defend my position this wasn’t the show creators fault. If you’ll allow me to, I’m going to paint a picture that will help to explain my position.

    Let’s pretend for a second we aren’t talking about a tv show. Let’s say we are talking about photography. Let’s also say a photographer took a series of night shots with natural lighting that perfectly captured the moment on his properly configured monitor where he adjusted his photos and prepared them for publishing. This photographer then uploads these photos to a photo sharing service which then serves its users a heavily compressed version that is not reflective of what he wanted to say with his photos anymore. Let’s also say those users view these on a wide variety of different screens with different levels of display quality and color/black level reproduction. To these viewers the images look terrible and the photographers vision is lost.

    Is it fair for the masses to get in an uproar and say the photographer didn’t know what he was doing and took terrible pictures? I’d like to think most reasonable people would say no. It doesn’t mean the pictures don’t suck to those viewers, it just means it’s complicated with a lot of variables between the photographer and his viewers to mess up the presentation of his vision. That’s kind of tragic to me, as is this whole situation regarding the Game of Thrones episode.

    Honestly there is plenty to complain about in this episode without getting stuck on how dark it was. If you’d like to hear more of my thoughts on that, you’ll have to wait for the BubbleSort TV: Game of Thrones episode later in the week.

    Until then, if you watched this episode and otherwise enjoyed it, aside from the darkness, perhaps you can try tuning the tv levels and rewatching while you wait. Good and bad, this was a phenomenal episode that deserves to be graded on its merits more than this tragedy of circumstances.

    30 April 2019

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