I believe you don’t even have to use AppleScript you can just use the say command directly

Yes! IIRC, I needed to use osascript to set the volume.

When was the last time Apple made some significant update to its professional desktop apps?

Logic Pro gets regular updates. I believe most of it is AI driven nonsense but they are making changes. Flashback capture was a nice fairly recent addition and surprising this wasn't implemented sooner. There are also regular bug fixes and performance improvements. I can't speak for the other apps.

https://support.apple.com/en-afri/109503

Forget that. TikTokers are the revenue stream now.

TikTokers ("influencers" in general) don't do their editing or any part of their "production pipeline" on computers, kids are doing the full thing via smartphones nowadays. Blew my mind initially too, as I always did "serious work" at a computer and never the phone, but seems they're managing it somehow.

They often start there, some stay there, some graduate to an iPad, but a a lot of the higher end creators absolutely edit in desktops or laptops (usually MacBooks)

My old job dealt with this quite a lot as they were our target market, so I got some up close views of how for example, creators like MrBeast go about their editing (well the employees anyway)

Though I did note a lot of creators that do graduate to more robust software basically go from lightweight editor via Canva -> iMovie or equivalent -> professional software e.g. FCPX or Premiere

Yeah, that matches what I've seen too, bigger productions adopting a more traditional pipeline, while "influencers" or whatever they're called today, kind of stick with the tools they've learned, until they "graduate" as they expand the team and bring in actual professionals.

They use CapCut which is free and on the web and Google Docs.

To them what Apple just announced is trash.

I think she is active on bluesky

She is, but I think her work results in less pretty tweets these days.

I dunno, she tweeted (skeeted?) out something recently with position & rotation splines that was pretty cool.

Consider using a service worker for the CPU bound process so the main thread doesn't hang.

I tried experimenting with something similar using three.js a while ago [0] when I saw the other post [1]. The trick was hiding the HDR video in the page, allowing other elements to surpass a brightness level of 1. I have a post-processing shader that divides all brightness values by 2, along with CSS that applies filter: brightness(2). Finally a shader material on one of the spheres multiplies its fragment output by a value above one.

[0] https://r3f-hdr.netlify.app

[1] https://kidi.ng/wanna-see-a-whiter-white/

Great job, I tried something similar (although much less polished) a while back. https://unknown-mp3.netlify.app/#debug

This made me realize I have no MP3s anymore :(

Nice, thanks for sharing!

The button leads to the editor page which you can acces from the main navigation, it’s weird that the button is disabled on mobile while the editor works fine.

Anyone know how this compares to min-dalle?

The augmented reality function that seems to allow you to label your plants seems intriguing. I wanted to try this over PicturesThis (I don’t like how PictureThis makes it look you need their subscription for the app to work) But it seems the app is not available in my region maybe because of GDPR, I guess?