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Philly CocoaHeads held a joint meetup with our Android friends for Philly Tech Week. At said meetup there were a bunch of lightning talks, and I did one. UIKit is Dead, Long Live UIKit! With the introduction of Swift and …
Today I’m launching the teaser site for my new app, OwlDeck. OwlDeck is a new macOS presentation tool for programmers and geeks who need to display code and love Markdown. If you are interested in OwlDeck I’d love for …
As I alluded to after loosing my job at the end of January, I knew I’d take the majority of February to recover from my neck surgery and then get serious about work in March. We’ll it’s almost the end of March so I …
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My neck surgery on Friday was a success. It was more complicated than expected (2.5 hours under instead of the planned 45-60 minutes). The cyst had grown much larger than anticipated and was interwoven between lots of …
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While I had hopes of doing more productive things, I ended up spending the last few days in bed fighting off a pretty lousy sinus / chest cold. Between the medicines and the fever, I don’t think I had more than 90 …
I am no longer an employee of Big Nerd Ranch. The news came down on Monday. I can’t speak to any of the details but suffice to say I am disappointed. I really enjoyed working at BNR. My time there was productive, for my …
I’m not a huge music collector, at least not compared to some other people I know. I do have about 150 GBs of music in my iTunes collection — lots of it being video game soundtracks I enjoy listening to while I program. …
At the Apple event a few weeks ago they began with a short video on accessibility. I’ve learned a lot about accessibility on iOS over the last few years. Apple’s products are some of the most accessible in the world and …
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After letting my bedroom / office get out of hand, I took some time today to clean up and get organized. I wrapped and grouped up my wires and even opened up some of the new USB3/Thunderbolt3 dongles I had ordered to go …
Having been a long time Mac user and developer it’s been very disappointing to see Apple ignore the hardware release cycle of the Mac platform over the last few years. I’m really anxious to see what’s going to come of …
It’s Friday. I’m actually a little low energy and so I decide to go out and pick up a late lunch. I’ll eat it in my car listening to a podcast and get some outside / sun time. The podcast of choice is Startup, a podcast …
Radar: #28802828 Documentation for NSViewController init(nibName:bundle:) is incorrect from Mike Zornek on Vimeo. I say the wrong thing a few times in this spontaneous recording but hopefully there is enough here to …
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One of my guilty (and time consuming) pleasures is YouTube. I watch a lot of YouTube. Mostly video game and movie stuff, lots of WoW channels (even though I’m not playing much right now), a few Let’s Players and of …
I posted a few thoughts while I was attending the Front End Web class last week and I figured I’d put a cap on it with some final thoughts. Disclaimer: If you happen to find this post and don’t know, I do in fact work …
I did not partake in the first release of Apple Watch. I was curious but not curious enough. I bought a Playstation 4 instead. Last month Apple had its announcements. I wasn’t all that jazzed about the iPhone 7 (even …
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It’s Wednesday night and as expected it’s been both an exhausting and rewarding week so far here at the Front End Web class. Here is the table of contents we’ve been working through: Introduction Chapter 1: Setting Up …
One of the great perks of working at Big Nerd Ranch is that you are allowed to take one Big Nerd Ranch class a year. This week I’m taking the Front End Web class, and am really looking forward to it. At nights we are …
At CocoaConf I attended a session from my fellow Big Nerd Ranch coworker, Mark Dalrymple. In this session he explored the questions we ask when looking for bugs — or more specifically their solutions. At one point Mark …
A Place for Everything, and Everything in It’s Place My side project is a Mac app and last week I was working on a small story about sending feedback. Send Feedback under Help Menu As a user, I want to be able to Submit …
Had the pleasure to attend and speak at CocoaConf DC this past weekend. CocoaConf is a touring training conference for iPhone, iPad, and Mac developers. We bring some of the best authors, trainers, and speakers to the …
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