My Favorite TextExpander Shortcut Snippets
I added a new one today, for the common need to convert a title-like string into a filename-friendly one.
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Video: Nurturing Your Community During Lock Down (7m)
My Project: Club House Hosting
Video: How I Decided to Build Clubhouse (6m)
Links: My Project: Club House Hosting
Video: Quick Thoughts on User Testing (5m)
Links My Project: Club House Hosting Book: Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems My Recent Usability Test Script
Clubhouse Public Alpha
Today, after more than a year of side project progress, I finally am starting to share some of my progress regarding Clubhouse Hosting through the release of the first Public Alpha. My first commit (over a year ago): In …
Baseball
It is played everywhere: in parks and playgrounds, prison yards, in back alleys and farmers’ fields; by small boys and old men, raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding …
April Book Update
I don’t do many book updates on this blog. In fact I don’t read nearly as much as I would like. I’m a slow reader and in general am more visual, watching videos, movies and games. I do maintain a …
Video: An Introduction to Elixir
This talk was originally presented at the Philly Elixir Group April meeting. Covers the basics of the language, what it can be used for and why it’s particularly helpful for certain situations. A great talk for …
Putting Zoom in Quarantine
I’ve already blogged about my interest in finding a Zoom alternative for my own groups and meetings but sadly it’s not a platform I can completely shun since I have personal connections that still use it …
Swift UInt vs Int
I’m giving major consideration to utilizing Swift’s UInt type for function returns and calculated properties in the future. Yes this does burden the user of my code or SDK to do the occasional type …
Open Office Hours
Yesterday was my last day on contract and once again I have Consulting Availability and am available for hire. With some time to kill I’m looking forward to catching up on some personal projects but today I wanted …
Meetup Finds New Owners and I Welcome the Competition
For a long time I’ve felt Meetup’s service offerings were pretty mediocre and stale. In 2017 they were purchased by WeWork and things only got worse. I’ve been a long time group organizer and feel very …
Zoom / Google Hangout Alternatives
With the need to do more video conferences and meetings many are turning to Zoom and Google Hangouts. Technically I’ve always thought Google Hangouts was pretty mediocre and Zoom, while a better user experience has …
Things Change Fast
· Series: Journals
It was only March 1st when I last did a rather normal personal update and man did things change fast for us all. I think it would be bizarre to look back at my blog and not find any writings about the Coronavirus, so …
Consulting Availability
Just a quick post today to share that my current client project will end April 1st and I’ll have consulting availability opening up. For more info you can check out my For Hire page but to summarize, the following …
Video: Working With Time Zones in an Elixir Phoenix App
This talk was originally presented at the Philly Elixir Group February meeting. “Today we are going to talk about time zones, specifically what they are, how Elixir handles them and then talk about some strategies …
Renaissance Man
👨💻 Right now I’m on a client project that has me working on an iOS SDK codebase but still touching GoLang, C and Kotlin/Android as well. I’m doing the best I can but it is challenging jumping around, …
Spinning Plates
· Series: Journals
I don’t do a ton of writing here but I do like to post updates at least once a month. Sadly I missed February. 😢 Truth be told, things are just really busy right now. First, I did land a new contracting gig which …
2019 Accomplishments and 2020 Goals
A friend recently went off on how he hates these kinds of blog posts but I can’t help myself from sharing. Yes it’s very egotistical, but you could say that about the majority of a personal blog. I also like …
iOS and Web Consulting Availability
Happy New Year everyone. Hope you enjoyed your break. Just a quick post today to share that I do have consulting availability and would love to start work on a new client project. I recently updated my For Hire page but …
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