PiP

Photo by Dev Benjamin on UnsplashA quick discussion into why `pip freeze` is not as cool when it comes to managing Python dependenciesI had come across pip freeze and virtual env a couple years ago and I was absolutely blown away. I was someone who was always scared of virtual environments (Don’t even ask) but once I learnt how easy it was to manage my dependencies, I couldn’t stop. I felt like a senior developer, making a virtualenv for all my projects. Ever since then my developer skills have increased multifold and I…

Google is rolling out a trio of productivity updates to its iPhone and iPad productivity apps. Notably, Gmail will get a homescreen widget, while iOS Picture-in-Picture is now available for Google Meet. Update 1/11/22: Version 6.0.211226 of Gmail from yesterday rolls out the new “Email updates” widget. It joins the existing “Quick email actions” homescreen item. Original 11/10/21: Gmail is getting another widget on iOS after the original was quietly removed sometime in the past year. The screenshot Google shared…

As promised in February, YouTube TV is rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP) to its iPhone and iPad app. It comes as the main YouTube for iOS client is still only previewing an identical capability. YouTube TV tweeted today that picture-in-picture is “now rolling out” to phones and tablets running iOS 15:  Simply select a video to watch and swipe ⬆️ from the bottom of the screen to return to the device’s homepage. The video can scale down and move across your screen. That said, PiP is not yet widely available on…

YouTube started officially rolling out Picture-in-Picture to the iOS app last June and it’s been a very slow process. Premium subscribers were given a workaround, but YouTube’s PiP test for iPhone and iPad has now ended. The “Picture-in-Picture on iOS” experiment (from August) has disappeared from youtube.com/new after hitting its early April end date. Google notified people with a “The feature you’re trying has been turned off”  banner on the desktop site and mobile apps. That said, the YouTube PiP still works…