Looking at this year’s design finalists – I’ve only used three of them. Let’s see if they win. https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/ The three I’ve used or played are Wylde Flowers (an enjoyable game), Vectornator: Vector Design (for vector graphics editing), and Lego Star Wars: Castaways (another game). Great quotes from the video: Love the idea that Design […]
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State of the Platforms
This is a raw notes post.. if I get things wrong.. please let me know! As I am consuming the firehose today. After many network issues here at home, I was able to get to the State of the Platforms keynote. While I had seen little of the hype at the beginning before losing network […]
WWDC 2022 – Keynotes
Every year I take an “Education-Vacation” to coincide with WWDC. I was lucky enough back in 2018 and 2019 to actually go to WWDC in person. Over the last few years it has all been virtual. At times WWDC has blown my mind like the dragon in my favorite WWDC shirt. As I get ready […]
Day 2 – 100 Days of Swift
Wow! I’ve been using swift for a bunch of years, and have never come across enum associations. Imaging getting to that on day two of a course. What you see above is the association added to the running, talking and singing values of the enum Activity. This way you can “associate” additional information to a […]
A Beatles’ Retrospective
I’ve been taking some much needed time off, having not been able to take some of my corporate vacation last year. During this time, I am watching the Beatle’s Get Back documentary directed by Peter Jackson. I’ve always liked their music, and have enjoyed watching the back room machinations of their time in 1969. I […]
Summer 2021 WWDC Impacts
For the last 12 years or so, I’ve really enjoyed playing with the various beta’s of Apple’s operating systems. Discovering new features, and updating my apps each summer have been a great way to keep my technological skills current, while scratching the itch to write code. I’ve had good summers and bad summers, based on […]
Adding Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts
As I continue to work on Wasted Time, I now have added working keyboard shortcuts, and menu items to both the iPad and macOS versions. I can’t wait for Big Sur and iPadOS 14 to come up so I can release these to the world. First a few screenshots The code ended up not being […]
Wasted Time for Apple TV
One of the really cool things about keeping up with Apple’s summer release schedule is that you can add new features easily to your apps. This summer I spent time restructuring Wasted Time to add support for Widgets on iOS, macOS, and iPadOS. After I got that working, I thought, what the hell, why not […]
Widgets on Big Sur
Sometime I just need to post a picture… and today is one of those days:
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 […]