A blog about things that interest me.
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Apple’s iPad Magic Keyboard thoughts
I’ve been a huge iPad fan since it first game out. I bought the first four versions sight unseen, and with each one I loved it more. I have the original iPad keyboard stand, that plugged into the 30 pin slot and only worked in portrait mode. When the first iPad Pro came out, I…
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Time keeps on slippin, splippin, slippin
I’ve been amazed by all the posts and stories from people having time to do all the things they have been putting off. They are taking the “extra” time made available during our current lockdowns, and learning new skills, playing old games, and basically just relaxing. Unfortunately, I’ve not had that ability. On March 12th,…
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Mac App Store = Tighter checks on new app
I’ve been playing with Catalyst since WWDC. Well not so much playing with it, but thinking about it while completely rewriting my Wasted Time app into SwiftUI. The main catalyst for rewriting the app is all the frustrations I had with Storyboards and Autolayout. Every time I wanted to add a new UI element to…
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Cracking the Code
Today’s been very productive so far: I’ve been able to fix a few UI issues that have really bugged me in my Mac version of WastedTime. I’ve uploaded version 9.0 of WastedTime for iOS to the App Store – the total rewrite of Wasted Time using SwiftUI and Combine I’ve built both a Mac Native…
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Year End Thoughts
Finally taking some time off and getting time to reflect on the year/decade in technology. Einstein’s idea of relative time is very appropriate for thinking about the last decade. Every year that I am on this planet, the time between years seems to run quicker and quicker. It’s been an amazing decade for technology: We’ve…