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Christoph

@hermiteer.com
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Zero-to-App-Store consultant; Adobe, Apple, eero, Planetary; ICU, manager, CEO, co-founder; patented and patentable; worked on Apple Vision Pro - ask me how it works!

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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 15h
The whole point is this: you may be talented such that you're down the "experience" path faster than someone else, but practicing and doing the work yields "taste", and taste is how great code, great design, and great products are made. That is the one thing that you will *always* have over agents.
Keynote slide without a title, but a single statement:
Talent -> Experience -> Taste
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 15h
This slide had specific advice on interacting with agents, getting better results by referencing your prior work (to inform future work), and leveraging multiple models and agents for higher confidence.
Keynote slide titled "Takeaways" with 7 bullet points:
Markdown is good for agents, OK for humans
HTML is good for agents and humans
Ask the agent to use your favorite code, designs, habits, patterns
Or ask your agent the best way to do it
Ask for multiple iterations - use your taste to drive results
Ask different agents (or different models) to review the other's work
Multiple tasks? Multiple sub-agents.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 15h
Agents may have already evolved past this in the last 4 months, but I discovered that framing problems as structured data is what allowed the agent to effectively iterate and problem solve.
Keynote slide titled "Takeaways" with 4 bullet points:
Agents are really good at structured data
Structured data can be compared, diff'd, filtered, refined
Code, designs, plans, tests, results are all structured data
Context for the next session, the next model, the next human
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 15h
The video from my talk with @sfswift.bsky.social will be up soon, but I wanted to share and annotate these 3 slides that are key points I learned from working with my agentic team.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 07/10/2026
It's been a while since I've done a talk (Adobe Max 2011 anyone?) so I'm grateful for the folks at SLUG x CocoaHeads and Verkada for the chance to share my summer project. It's based on my recent LinkedIn posts so if that sounds interesting I hope to see you there!
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AI Agent Teams and macOS Sandboxing — SF Swift × CocoaHeads · Luma
Please join us for this month's session together learning about Swift with talks by local members of the Swift community. We are so excited to see you all…
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 14/09/2026
I resemble this remark.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 16/10/2025
Just pushed the first Feature Complete build for a client. A complete rework of UX that adds a first class iPad experience, drops a very bad TCA implementation, maintains interop with an old 3rd party SDK, and resolves hundreds of memory leaks, while mentoring an engineer, all on a 10hr/wk schedule.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 23/07/2025
When you get a good multi-modal idea and push it through to the end. Well done ExploringTheSimulation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXQ...
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I Gave Every iPhone USB-C.
YouTube video by Exploring the Simulation
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 06/03/2025
Is that a feature of Houdini? Or RealityKit?
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 06/03/2025
Wow your Vision Pro environments are really getting good. Those goats look very realistic!
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 28/02/2025
RealityKit has LOD for textures, but not geometry. One could do it manually by measuring distance between camera and object, but it could get complicated if the entity is animated or reacting to physics.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 19/02/2025
Never did like Spokane.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 03/02/2025
Well said and agree. I turned mine into a performance art piece, with the hopes that it may be useful someday.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 27/01/2025
Ah gorcha 👌
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 27/01/2025
🤙
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 13/01/2025
Wow. 600 kg is like 1300 lbs. Amazing.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 13/01/2025
Severely disappointed that Pantera did not actually score the movie. One and a half stars.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/01/2025
I took a break after an update that nerfed a lot of weapons, but looks like there is some new content so will hop back in. Also, if you like 40K games there’s an FPS called Hired Gun which is enjoyable and on sale!
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 07/01/2025
Even though it appears you can turn off iOS 18 notification summaries, I’m still not updating. I expect these sorts of half-baked shenanigans from Google and Meta, but am supremely disappointed with Apple on this.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 07/01/2025
* squinting look while trying to decide Jerry’s bits are getting better or worse *
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 18/12/2024
Business cards from my Halloween costume this year. Literally picked them up from a tiny print shop deep inside Chinatown. $34 for a 100. Good deal. Typos intentional.
Business card for Jack Burton Trucking, including 90s style hyperlink and email address. Black blocky text on white background. http://jackburtontrucking.comBack side of Jack Burton’s business card with the “Haulin’ Ass” topless woman silouette. From the mud flaps on Jack Burton’s truck.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/12/2024
Am I not understanding how moderation lists work? If I add an account to one I’ve made, why do I keep seeing posts from the account? Do moderation lists not work on the Discovery feed?
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/12/2024
The last great stop motion villain in movie history (IMHO).
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 10/12/2024
What the...
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 09/12/2024
Nice one! I’ve been following Unity and Unreal engine fire tutorials which use fractal noise too, so will add this to my list. Thanks!
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 27/11/2024
Ha! I know that street. And yes the first few times were odd, but I hardly think about it now. Sitting in the back seats you get to see the tracking monitor and how the car is visualizing, or rather presenting to you, what it “sees”.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 26/11/2024
I was interning at a little company called Itron. My managers let me tag along as they tried to figure out how to use Java for meter UI apps (in conjunction with Itron’s remote utility consumption meters installed on houses).
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 26/11/2024
Wild! I was at that conference…
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 26/11/2024
Absolutely! Beta 2.2 fixed a bug where pure white flipped to black when a certain spot in a texture was foveated.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 21/11/2024
Obligatory Fry “take my money!”
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 14/11/2024
New album cover about to drop from The Blue Heelers.
Two Blue Heeler cattle dogs, one regulation size, one travel size, sitting in the sidewalk in a city, sunsetting behind them.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 13/11/2024
Immeasurable?
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 13/11/2024
I have questions.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 24/10/2024
Huh. Guess I should go get some coffee or something. Thanks for letting me know about that extra 30 minutes tho.
Xcode Organizer uploader letting me know it’s going to take “2562047788015215 hours, 30 minutes” to complete.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 21/10/2024
The saxophone is the pinnacle of human musical instrument invention that can only be improved upon by taking to down to the nearest lake and throwing it in.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 16/10/2024
This was common among club DJs in the mid 00s (before USB sticks took over). You’d burn your set (or sets or playlists or folders) to CD then jam into the CDJs at the club. To note: low bit rate or VBR tracks sound terrible on huge club sound systems, so I only burned AIFF tracks.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 26/09/2024
OpenAI is in my neighborhood. Yesterday small groups of engineers were walking around. A local bar was closed for a private event company meeting. Walking past I heard “I’ve worked at lots of companies that were running out of money”. Not proof but I know the “my company is fucked” walkabout.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 18/09/2024
Huh. Posting in Safari doesn't let me add alt-text...
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 18/09/2024
Elder lurker status achieved.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 23/07/2024
I thought it stood for “Jelly Donut”?
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 21/07/2024
Clicked into this thread specifically to see who would post this picture.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/06/2024
Why sad?
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/06/2024
Currently at the One More Thing conference near WWDC. Very nice group of folks, good content, good conversations. Hope it happens again next year! omt-conf.com
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 29/05/2024
Called “side shows” here in SF.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 23/05/2024
Geezus. I thought I was the only one that knew that place.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 10/05/2024
Gotta rip some Steve Vai on that octy…
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 17/04/2024
Yes exactly.
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 13/04/2024
Ah yes you’re correct. The actual build must happen on a remote Mac somewhere. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cr...
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Christoph @hermiteer.com · 12/04/2024
I wouldn’t think so because you can build iOS apps with Visual Studio.
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