I vaguely remember #GoogleIO from a year or two ago mentioning a way to have Google assistant place calls and schedule appointments for you. I've never actually looked into how to use it though, I just use the Call Screen feature on incoming calls
You are most likely already familiar with the first part of this concept, as that one got implemented by Maxi Ferreira about a year ago and got shared A LOT (we even featured it in last year’s #GoogleIO!)
Just before the weekend, Scroll-Driven Animations got enabled by default in Chrome Canary 🎉
That means you no longer need to enable the Experimental Web Platform Features flag when visiting https://scroll-driven-animations.style which holds a bunch of demos and tools.
Yesterday I was invited to a Twitter Space Google I/O as GDE webplatform and discussed, among other things, new features coming to the web (https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNGaNOrVXnJj).
I'm genuinely happy to see we go towards more user-centric and inclusive, accessible experiences with a lot of new CSS features and APIs.
We need to embrace that flexible nature of the web.
I also would love it, if more designers could start getting interested into all those new features and in how to use them for a greater experience. You don't need to learn to code. But, understanding what a browser can do will for sure help build better, more user-centric experiences in the next couple of years.
So, yeah, I'm super happy to see where the web platform is going those days.
Ironic that Marc Rebillet, an incredibly creative, energetic, extremely human performer was preceded by an interminable sequence of unremarkable music that was generated by “image-to-music” #ai.
We recorded a great #iACast episode today with @GT11, @TechEnthusiast, and Lynn on the new apps for #iPadOS and everything covered at #GoogleIO. It will be available this weekend. We can’t wait for everyone to hear it.
Watching #GoogleIO with deep, deep skepticism. Everything shown today seem centered around #AI, and I find it very hard to trust that these products will work in any way like they claim they would. The long tail for all of these problem domains feel very fat and very long.
AI writing in google docs is starting to roll out to people on the wait list. If you want to get into these beta programs, you can do so here: https://labs.withgoogle.com/
Super excited to share that I just released our refactored ChromeOS.dev! It'll basically look the same as the other version, but it's easier to develop, write content for, and, most importantly, it's faster and more consistent than the previous version. We've also migrated over to @astro and @sanity_io.
I'll have a post about it after #GoogleIO, but poke around with it in the mean time! And if you didn't know, it’s #opensource!
REPLAY CREW! Today's show was AWESOME even though I had almost no voice! Major thanks to the folks who turned out in the chat! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/44u #Apple is on an advertising apology tour. #Google is gearing up for #GoogleIO. #Microsoft is making a mobile app store?
Not only will I talk about Cross-Document View Transitions for MPAs, I’ll also be covering a few improvements that allow you to more easily work with View Transitions in general.