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I upgraded to iOS 27 yesterday. I had Siri turned off.

After the upgrade, Siri is now enabled.

Is this a bug or intentional? Wasn't able to find any supporting information.

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This is timelapse of a 3D city simulation based on your Git history, files are buildings and height is based on LOC. Weather can determines if the repo is quiet or active during a span of time.

Just a fun visual to get the momentum overview of your project. I've been working a lot in 1 repo for the past few months and got a handsome amount of commits, so I decided to make something visually appealing to 'appreciate' my work somehow.

Based on the ideas of: CodeCity (Richard Wettel & Michele Lanza) and Gource (Andrew Caudwell, 2009). Instead of static city like CodeCity or 2D tree like Gource, chronocity is an 3D interactive city and you can even drive car in there lol.

All in the browser, TypeScript + three.js, isomorphic-git in a Web Worker, WebCodecs for the video.

It scans your .git folder (all client-sided, nothing uploaded) and through the main branch (downscaled to 2000 steps for big repos), compares files, LOC with previous step. three.js renders all the buildings in one instanced mesh, and height is the square root of LOC. The weather is not random: the sky follows the local time (their time zone) of people that commited, fog indicates quiet stretches, rain means a burst of changes in a short window.

Try your own project straight in my GitHub page, drop your Git cloned repo there (containing .git folder, all in your browser, your repos are stored in YOUR cache, this is serverless).

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About a year and a half ago I started my writing journey by beginning to work on my first novella. During this time, I felt the need for different tools, like a timeline editor, a character sheet and so on, features that were not available on normal text editors. Later I discovered that I needed an Epub exporter, cover designer and more. I also wanted something AI-free, something private. It is important for me as a debut author to know that it is my writing, not an AI's and that it wont be used for AI training. So most cloud services were an instant "NO" from me.

Being a software engineer by day, I decided that instead of paying hundreds of dollars for the needed tools, I could just make them the way I wanted them to be. Eventually I decided to bundle them together, polish them and add more feature. So, this is how Chronicle was born.

Chronicle is a complete writing and authoring tool for writers. It offers features that other companies charge tens or even hundreds of dollars, while delivering (in my opinion) and inferior experience.

I also wanted Chronicle to work fully offline, not use Gen AI in the writing process, and provide a privacy-first experience.

Among the features are: - full-featured text editor with comments supports - timeline editor - character sheet - locations codex - Epub reader and exporter (including editing Epub Metadata) - Cover designer - Fully-local TTS using KokoroJS Text-to-Speech for help in proofreading - Themes - Private Cloud-storage support with WebDAV - and many more

And I made Chronicle not only free, but fully open-source. You can check the source code on Github, launch the online editor which supports almost all features, or download the app for both Windows and MacOS.

I would love to hear feedback.

Disclaimer: In the development process I did use AI. The app is NOT made entirely by AI, but being a back-end developer mostly, I did use AI for parts related to the user interface, themes, fix some bugs and to bridge knowledge gaps I had.

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