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Every day I drive down a small stretch of our town s Main Street in order to drop my kids off at the elementary school, which is nestled a block over in the midst of a tightly-packed residential area, full of quirky old houses and frustratingly-narrow streets. The town has around 7,000 residents and, contrary to [ ]
We re already eleven days into the new year, and here I am writing a New Year Reflection Post of sorts. One thing I ve noticed this year (and in past years, but this year especially) is that a lot of you have exchanged a concrete list of resolutions for an overall theme word. I think that s [ ]
I was in middle school when I really fell in love with the Internet. I d flirted with it a bit prior, creating my own Geocities site in homage to the popular virtual pet software Petz by P.F. Magic and browsing artwork created with Bryce 3D and early versions of Maya. But it was in a [ ]
General Thoughts Let me first say: I think it’s hilarious Apple didn’t even mention augmented reality this year. On one hand, it felt like very purposeful trolling; on the other hand, much of Apple’s unusually straightforward messaging this year was clearly designed to prepare developers for new form factors (larger iPads? AR/VR headset?). During the [ ]
It’s kitten season here at the farm. As I type this, I’m sitting at the bottom of the stairs near the dining room, keeping an eye on a shoebox full of black and white furballs. We had to pry them from their safe spot under our deck so the exterminator could treat around our house [ ]
I think this is the longest I ve gone without a new blog post in several years now. Over the summer, I got YarnBuddy to a good, stable place—meaning people are now emailing me feature requests instead of bug reports. I still have a long list of features to add to YarnBuddy, so it is in [ ]
Here we are again, on the eve of another WWDC, feeling…weird. Excited. Ambivalent? Curious. Did I mention excited? But also kinda annoyed. And some of you? Some of you are downright mad. There s a cloud hovering over Apple Park again, and it s not just the pandemic. It s bruised developer relations. It s alleged anti-trust violations. It s [ ]
When I first released YarnBuddy, it had an orange-to-pink gradient as the navigation bar background color. The colors reminded me of a sunset, which I liked, but the overall effect was a little too heavy and could easily clash with the user s own project photos. I wondered if I could do something a little more [ ]
My backlog of blog posts I want to write is getting a bit ridiculous at this point. One of them is a follow-up to YarnBuddy s App of the Day feature back in March, complete with screenshots and stats and the whole story of how that feature came to be. I m not quite ready to put [ ]
Tis the season for WWDC rumors, predictions, and wishlists! Spring is off to a shaky start here in Nebraska; we ve had a series of colder, windy days that seem more at home in March than May, and the forecast for the coming weeks is much more April showers than May flowers. However, the foliage is [ ]