Claude Workflow pt. 2
Updates on how I automate my Claude usage.
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Catching Up with Claude
Yet another post about LLM-assisted side projrct necromancy.
Three Curves for Tech Creatives
Some simple graphical frameworks for thinking about what—and how—we build and use technology.
My Current LLM-Assisted Workflow
How I've been using Claude Code to build iOS/macOS apps.
TUI v. GUI
LLMs demostrate why TUIs are superior to GUIs.
Claude Willing
Things I've learned after ramping up intensity with Claude Code.
Claude Damn
Recent experiences with Claude, Cursor, Copilot and ChatGPT.
Well watered
Adventures in plumbing and electricity.
Virtual Insanity
A real story about how a dreamy ski day turned into a nightmare.
Announcing sweCAPTCHA
A truly disruptive verification process.
Task runners
We've solved inventing blog engines and todo list trackers, so can finally examine real problems, like task runners.
LOGAF v. LEM
"Levels Of Giving A Fuck" (LOGAF) violates the Law of the Excluded Middle.
WWDC 2024 First Impressions
First thoughts after watching the 2024 WWDC Keynote and Platforms State of the Union addresses.
Laws We Never Voted In
Axioms, maxims, truisms, heuristics, theorems, paradoxes, thought experiments, sayings, razors, and maybe some clichés.
The Programmer Political Compass
Visualizing our tendencies as programmers.
Interest in Presidential Elections
Looking at federal reserve interest rate changes in each presidential election year.
Transcending irrational versioning
Recently learned about my new favorite versioning scheme so far from none other than Donald Knuth.
Happy 40th, Mac
My first Mac memories.
Apple Vision Pro Preorder Eve
Infinitely jesting about VR headsets.
Fast Magic
Building a Swift CLI to manage my Magic: the Gathering card collection.
Chores 2023
Gotta keep the little ones busy, teaching problem-solving skills is just the cherry on top!
Once In a UIViewController Lifecycle, by the Talking Heads
I started from the end, and worked my way backwards.
Advent of Code 2020 on Swift Playgrounds for iPad
I tried using the Swift Playgrounds app on my iPad while solving problems for Advent of Code 2020 this year. Here's my impression of the app as a code editor.
My WWDC 2019 Session Watchlist
My scheduled programming for watching this year's WWDC session videos.
Good Morning, iOS!
Brainstorming ways to combine Apple's productivity apps into a bird's-eye-view Today widget: Good Morning!
Tag Everything
A small request for sharing some simple organizational features amongst more of Apple's productivity apps, with some mockups of what it might look like in Reminders and Calendar.
Interpreting Apple's Transparency Report
Apple recently released their transparency report for government and private party information requests for January through June of 2018, in an updated format including broken out CSVs.
New Year, New Task Management
Describing the setup I've put in place towards a New Year's resolution to manage my time a little better, both for the day-to-day and longer-running goals.
Fun with Unicode in Swift
Looking at some ways to write tricky Swift code using Unicode.
Developer CLI tool reference
A collection of command line tools I've used on *nix systems.
Swift Async Operations at Your Command
Rewriting an old asynchronous Operation (née NSOperation) subclass in Swift for Pippin, learning new things.
On a Mission to Automate Revision
Introducing a new tool as part of my evolution towards effortless versioning of code.
Backend to Basics
Catching up on some experimentation with different backend, one of which was the Vapor framework for Swift on the server.
New command line tools
Announcing some new CLI tools available, and plans on how to consolidate others like psst, xcbs and vrsn.
My holy grail: a simple Rails install
Describing yet another winding foray into setting up a Rails app.
do try Antitypical's Result to catch Async Errors in Swift
Reviewing my foray into using Result for error handling in Swift, and my realization of a particular use case it solves well.
Overusing Xcode Targets Misses the Mark
Outlining the differences between Xcode project targets and build configurations, and how to properly use each one.
Automatic Devpod Versioning and Deployment with Vrsnr
Describing my process for semantically versioning the Pippin podspec, deploying it to CocoaPods trunk, and committing all the results to git history.
Reach Out and Touch Faith
Thinking about the future of the Macbook Pro, and the direction in which the TouchBar might indicate it's headed.
CocoaPods and Custom Build Configurations
My long journey to set a devpod's SWIFT_OPTIMIZATION_LEVEL, from the podspec's pods_target_xcconfig, to Podfile's post_install and finally arriving at the succinct project.
Programming: 20 Years In
As I near 20 years since first picking up computer programming, I take a quick look back at the languages I've used and the tools available to work with them, with thoughts on the synergies between them and our own brains.
Dependency Management Best Practices
In light of recent news about dependency manager breakages and vulnerabilities, highlighting some steps you can take to protect your dependencies and the projects for which you need them.
Announcing Pippin Version 2
Highlighting some of the new features in the first major update to Pippin.
Manage version numbers with this one line command
How I'm currently using Rake to automate a few common tasks I carry out to manage my iOS apps' version numbers.
Introducing Pippin
An update and first official version of my Swift app development framework.
Introducing Psst
A simple script to perform straigtforward template replacement of credentials in a codebase, to help avoid committing them.
Image Galleries with Jekyll
Describing my journey to build a photo gallery for my website using Jekyll/Liquid to template all the things.
Log Level: Extreme
A brief survey of log level concepts in the iOS community and elsewhere.
Apple's Tech Evolutions
Extrapolating Apple's technological advances from the past onto their current product lines and research, for funsies.
Looms and Computers
The similarities between computers and looms, distant cousins related through their ancestor, the Jacquard loom.