Joseph Humfrey
@joe
Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio. ⛰️ A Highland Song 🤖 TR-49 🚢 Overboard! & Expelled! 🕌 Heaven’s Vault 🌍 80 Days 🖋️ ink 📱 Apps @ 🦭 🏴🇩🇪
I can't believe how much use I'm getting out of this little side project I built it as a silly experiment but I'm using it ALL THE TIME now ☀️☀️☀️🔥🔥🔥
Woah taking a screenshot in iOS 27 lets you translate the screen contents. Game changer!
WIP feature of our next game, presented entirely out of context (it's been surprisingly fun to build tho)
I've also added a much requested Ideas & Actions panel, which helps demonstrate everything that Substage can do, while allowing quick access to frequent commands that can be favourited and reused.
My favourite new feature is Rules, allowing powerful customisation - for example with a trigger word like "website" you can say "when resizing images for my website, make them 1000px wide" Here's another example which adds details about how to optimise a video for YouTube upload:
Super excited to release Substage 1.0 today! It's a HUGE update. 🖋️ Blog post: joethephish.me/blog/substag... Substage is a little Mac app that puts a command bar underneath your Finder windows, allowing you to manipulate files and more, by converting your requests to Terminal commands.
Got my son analysing choose your own adventure books. It's a slippery slope from here 😏
During the #WWDC keynote I thought the new Maps flyover feature looked like gaussian splats/nerf but now I don't think so - it just looks like a higher detail version of the existing technique with support for transparency. Looks nice from a distance, less good close up!
Testing the limits of how far Apple security will let me explore the more secluded feeling paths around the edge of Apple Park. I wasn't allowed in the direction of the Steve Jobs theatre but this feels surprisingly remote!
My little app Hour by Hour had its icon err… half-featured in a WWDC slide!
I would like to announce that tomorrow is my cat’s birthday. He’ll be 4 🎈 hope my family back home will give him extra treats.
I also added the ability to export schedules as an image, PDF or plain text. Great for sharing with friends and colleagues!
In the airport about to fly to WWDC and I just released a big update to Hour by Hour that allows seamless importing of schedules and agendas from almost anywhere: a URL, a screenshot or just the plain text. So while sitting waiting for my flight I recorded a quick video:
Made a wee app today. Might call it Vent Till Late. Might not actually release it though because that's actual work and Americans don't need it anyway 🤷♂️
This week (so far???): 2 Apple Design Award nominations, 3 Develop Award nominations including Best Indie Studio. 🤯
Moonrise! I've never seen the moon have such an orange glow on the horizon like this. Crazy! (Shot from my window with my phone)
A very early website design for inkle (2011). I don't think it ever quite looked like this, but the old skeuomorphism did make me smile when I stumbled over it this morning 🙂 You can already see the joined papery aesthetic that made it into Frankenstein and Sorcery!