Sports news ⚽

E had her first soccer game this week. I caught a video of her celebrating herself for her first goal. We’ll be waking up a bit earlier on Saturdays for a few weeks. 😅

Computer news 🖥️

If you're been wanting to dip into "talking instead of typing", but your built-in dictation is bumming you out, here are my personal recommendations: 

• Handy. Fully open; the basis for almost all "local-only" voice dictation apps that are currently charging money.  😅 Freeee, and content never leaves your device. 

• VoiceInk. Basically, a souped up version of Handy, with extra features. I use this one currently, but use none of the extra features. Mainly because I installed it before I installed Handy. (I'm pretty sure the trial has no time limit 😬)

  • They just released an iOS version of some kind; I haven't tried, but will soon. I’m not sure how iOS handles non-native voice dictation. It seems to be through a keyboard integration. If it’s janky, blame the OS.

These are really good at technical words, names, brands, and other things that Apple's built-in stuff seems to fail at for me. 

There may be better things that do "real time" typing for you. These are very high quality, very free, and a low-barrier to try out some dictation. 

Robot news 🤖

Robot game is coming along. Slowly. It’s hard to take my own advice about MVP’s, design, shipping, etc. 😬

AI news 🌈

• There are expensive ones, less-expensive ones, and free ones. Even the API ones.

• There are crabs and claws. And pies.

• You don’t need a Mac Mini. You might need a tiny/mini/micro.

Introducing “stories told with data” to your kid news 📈

Over spring break, I was playing with E and drew a quick chart. I wanted to introduce to her the concept that sometimes a chart or graph can “tell a story”.

She understood the graph (pictured below).

We talked about what kind of things might be happening. My idea was that some wild child showed up, throwing all the balls out of the ball-pit. “Thrashing about”. She immediately pointed out “oh, and some workers or other kids started putting them back in”.

See anything else interesting here?

Getting a puppy news 🐶

Oh, btw, we got a dog on Sunday. No big deal. 😅

This email is too long, so you’ll have to stay tuned for all that!