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Widgets on Big Sur

Sometime I just need to post a picture… and today is one of those days:

August 24, 2020

blog, Personal – Software and IT
Explaining the Statistics in Wasted Time

I’ve been working on adding a set of widgets to Wasted TIme for iOS14. After playing with this program for over a decade, I realized people may not really understand the statistics on the totals page. This will may become more confusing once the widget is live. Let’s take a look at the two sets…

July 19, 2020

blog, Personal – Software and IT

ios14, ipados14, WastedTime, widget kit
WWDC – Day 5

I wanted to start this day early, since I was declined for my second Lab request. I have been working on Shortcuts support in Wasted Time and while I had a great session on Wednesday, I am still having issues with the launching of Wasted Time from the Shortcuts app. I am getting a “Sorry…

June 27, 2020

blog, Personal – Software and IT

coredata, ios, iPadOS, macOS, WasteTime, widgetkit, WWDC20
WWDC – Day 4

Another fun filled day, and now I am starting to get back into my code. I began the day with a session on the OS.Logging extensions added into Swift. I am thinking I should change my code to start using Logging instead of print statements. I do a lot of inline print statements so when…

June 25, 2020

blog, Personal – Software and IT

cellcollectionViews, CloudKit, Grids, Hardware Keyboards, logging, Push notifications, stacks, Swift, SwiftUI, WWDC20
WWDC Day 3

Day three was loads of fun, the highlight of which was the Code-Along for WidgetKit. I also had my lab appointment on the problems I was having with SiriIntents and Shortcuts. While I was a able to get my Intents to work, we ran out of time for the Shortcut problem. But I do believe…

June 25, 2020

blog, Personal – Software and IT

apple silicon, ipad, security, threat modeling, widgetkit, WWDC20

Widgets on Big Sur

Explaining the Statistics in Wasted Time

WWDC – Day 5

WWDC – Day 4

WWDC Day 3