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  1. Android XR will struggle to establish an ecosystem; practical real-world uses for Gemini in the headset form-factor will be key.
  2. Reworking the script and input values to less-than-obvious settings are required
  3. Days of sifting through details produced a simple solution.
  4. Doing VR and AR on the WWW requires a raft of APIs, libraries, languages, services, file formats, design metrics and approaches that web developers don't normally use.
  5. The plot runs on coincidences, but it's fun.
  6. Over-the-top automotive mayhem, but nothing else
  7. The Web Share API and Web Share Target API allow your web app to send and receive content from native apps, like the big social networking apps.
  8. Almost all platforms support installing a PWA, but prompting the user is still fragmented.
  9. Klaang the Klingon shows how ballet is done right
  10. There's a new network option for A-Frame
  11. A Post-modern, but not fractured, fairy-tale
  12. Reliable gesture recognition enhances immersion.
  13. Civil Cold War
    Political polarization will continue for a long time
  14. The ELK Stack
    Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana together enable powerful monitoring and data transformations.
  15. A better way to find VR & AR content on the Web is needed.
  16. Service Workers improve the user experience by insulating the webapp from the vagaries of the network.
  17. Throwing content from a phone to a smart TV enables new interactions.
  18. Apple's much-touted concern with user experience was not in evidence
  19. A guest post on the Mozilla Hacks blog, in Apps and Mobile
  20. Web apps on mobile require a new framework
  21. This post originally appeared on the webOS Developer Relations blog
  22. Experiments revealed issues with latency and usefulness
  23. It's easier to sell a going concern
  24. Just Type
    UI needs to be discoverable
  25. New databases are emerging, which embrace data in varying formats from varying sources.
  26. There are many technical and user experience challenges
  27. Transitions
    Palm OS → webOS 1.x → webOS 2.x → ?
  28. To-do items need to be actionable, with adequate detail
  29. Synergy for Tasks
    webOS Tasks should be reworked using the Palm Synergy paradigm
  30. Limitations of digital maps
  31. My productivity path into PDAs
  32. The Mästermyr chest has several unexpected design features which point toward it being a seat.
  33. Runestones & skaldic poetry help us understand how vikings described their ships and crews.
  34. cyberpunk shading toward paramilitary action-adventure
  35. melodramatic SF action-adventure
  36. The Apple Newton ecosystem is maturing, but the Newton isn't a great way to take notes.
  37. alien nanomachines assemble artifact on the Moon