This morning, I had a heck of a time with hCaptcha, so finding out from Zoom’s status page that they plan to introduce it definitely got my attention. (1/3)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 09, 2026
A blind person should be able to file a business independently.
Today, something that should have taken about 20 minutes took more than 2.5 hours because the website was hard to use with a screen reader.
What stood out most to me was how ordinary the task was. Filing a business is a basic workflow, and it still broke down in ways that made it much harder than it should have been.
I wrote more about it here: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/filing-a-business-should-not-be-this
#Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility
Today, something that should have taken about 20 minutes took more than 2.5 hours because the website was hard to use with a screen reader.
What stood out most to me was how ordinary the task was. Filing a business is a basic workflow, and it still broke down in ways that made it much harder than it should have been.
I wrote more about it here: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/filing-a-business-should-not-be-this
#Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #UX #WebAccessibility
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 09, 2026
I launched my personal site. taylorarndt.com. I'm offering accessibility and usability testing sessions over Zoom. One hour, $50 intro rate. I use VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and TalkBack daily. Not a scanner. A real person using your product.
I wrote about why I'm doing this: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-finally-have-a-personal-website
#Accessibility #A11y #WebAccessibility #ScreenReader #VoiceOver #AssistiveTech #InclusiveDesign
I wrote about why I'm doing this: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-finally-have-a-personal-website
#Accessibility #A11y #WebAccessibility #ScreenReader #VoiceOver #AssistiveTech #InclusiveDesign
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 06, 2026
@vick21 there are like 10 local AI apps on the App Store right now
i've tried most of them. they're all basically the same thing -- download a model, open a chat box, type something
that's it. that's the whole app. iPhone and Mac.
Perspective Intelligence is different and i don't think people realize it. when you're talking to Gemma 4 or Apple Foundation Models in our app, it has actual tools behind it… (1/2)
i've tried most of them. they're all basically the same thing -- download a model, open a chat box, type something
that's it. that's the whole app. iPhone and Mac.
Perspective Intelligence is different and i don't think people realize it. when you're talking to Gemma 4 or Apple Foundation Models in our app, it has actual tools behind it… (1/2)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 06, 2026
@vick21 I built an open source CLI tool called perspective-cuts. You write Apple Shortcuts in code instead of dragging blocks in the visual editor. Code in, shortcut out.
Other tools tried this before. But they fell behind because Apple changes the shortcut actions every year and those projects stopped keeping up. That's why I built this from scratch. Staying current is the whole point.
It's on GitHub. Use it, fork it, tell me what's broken. (1/2)
Other tools tried this before. But they fell behind because Apple changes the shortcut actions every year and those projects stopped keeping up. That's why I built this from scratch. Staying current is the whole point.
It's on GitHub. Use it, fork it, tell me what's broken. (1/2)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 04, 2026
Google released Gemma 4 on Thursday. It is already in Perspective Intelligence and I have been testing it.
It is a thinking model. It reasons through your question before it responds and you can feel the difference in the output. I have been using it with our tools and it works really well. I think it is one of the best models you can run on your phone right now.
To find it go to Settings > AI Models > Standard On-Device > Experimental > Gemma 4 E2B. Download and go. (1/2)
It is a thinking model. It reasons through your question before it responds and you can feel the difference in the output. I have been using it with our tools and it works really well. I think it is one of the best models you can run on your phone right now.
To find it go to Settings > AI Models > Standard On-Device > Experimental > Gemma 4 E2B. Download and go. (1/2)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 03, 2026
We're testing internally but we're not shipping anything until there's an actual launched SDK and store. Not worth the risk to our account or our users. (3/3)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 03, 2026
@mikedoise So I dug into this. The SDK uses Apple's ExternalAccessory framework, which requires MFi certification. Meta's glasses don't have that yet. If you submit to the App Store with the SDK included, Apple will reject it. If it somehow slips through, they can pull the app and flag your account. Repeat violations can cost you your entire developer account. (1/3)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Apr 03, 2026
Meta's own developer preview terms also restrict public App Store publishing to approved partners right now. So you're not just risking an Apple violation, you're violating Meta's terms at the same time.
The real path for anyone outside the approved partner list is TestFlight and Meta's own release channels. The full SDK and store are expected later in 2026. (2/3)
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The real path for anyone outside the approved partner list is TestFlight and Meta's own release channels. The full SDK and store are expected later in 2026. (2/3)
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@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Mar 27, 2026
Last year I fell in love with devices like Bee and Plaud. The idea of something that just listens and captures your thoughts while you work? That is exactly what my brain needed.
But I could never find one that worked for me. I am blind. I have ADHD. My thoughts move faster than my hands. And every app I tried had record buttons VoiceOver could not find, or sent everything to a server, or interrupted the exact moment I needed to stay in flow.
So we built our own. (1/3)
But I could never find one that worked for me. I am blind. I have ADHD. My thoughts move faster than my hands. And every app I tried had record buttons VoiceOver could not find, or sent everything to a server, or interrupted the exact moment I needed to stay in flow.
So we built our own. (1/3)
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Mar 22, 2026
I got tired of jumping between six apps to answer comments. Threads. Mastodon. LinkedIn. Bluesky. Could not remember who I had replied to and who I had missed.
So I built a marketing team inside my terminal. Ten AI agents. A self-hosted scheduler. One command posts to four platforms.
The first draft sounded like a press release. That is the real work. Not the pipeline. The voice rules.
Paid post with a free preview:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-built-a-marketing-team-in-my-terminal
#Accessibility #ClaudeCode #SelfHosted #OpenSource
So I built a marketing team inside my terminal. Ten AI agents. A self-hosted scheduler. One command posts to four platforms.
The first draft sounded like a press release. That is the real work. Not the pipeline. The voice rules.
Paid post with a free preview:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-built-a-marketing-team-in-my-terminal
#Accessibility #ClaudeCode #SelfHosted #OpenSource
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Mar 20, 2026
A conversation started with:
“Is there an AirDrop for Windows?”
My answer was Tailscale, though that undersells it a bit.
What I like most is that it replaced several annoying parts of remote access for me:
• less messing with port forwarding
• less dealing with unreliable sync tools
• less thinking about network setup in general
Now I mostly just connect to the machine I need, by name, and keep moving.
I wrote up how I use it here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/you-should-be-using-tailscale
#Tailscale #Networking #SelfHosting
“Is there an AirDrop for Windows?”
My answer was Tailscale, though that undersells it a bit.
What I like most is that it replaced several annoying parts of remote access for me:
• less messing with port forwarding
• less dealing with unreliable sync tools
• less thinking about network setup in general
Now I mostly just connect to the machine I need, by name, and keep moving.
I wrote up how I use it here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/you-should-be-using-tailscale
#Tailscale #Networking #SelfHosting
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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Feb 09, 2026
@FediTips @molly0xfff Substack because it’s cheap it’s easy to use and they market stuff I don’t get hardly any reach if I made my own sight
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iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
techopolis.social
Taylor Arndt
@tayarndt@techopolis.social
iOS & Swift engineer | On-device AI specialist at @techopolis | Building Perspective Intelligence - private AI that runs on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | Writing at taylorarndt.substack.com
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@techopolis I got a HomePod and I plan to use it in my bedroom
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