Well, I’ve been looking at adding Mastodon support to Wasted Time since removing support for twitter a few months back. I was talking to my good friend and podcast co-host @andypiper about this yesterday, and he asked why. I thought about it long and hard. While back in the twitter days I used this for […]
Category: Personal – Software and IT
Completed two major classes
I like learning. It’s that simple. I like to take classes, learn new things, read about new things, and play with new things. It’s one of the reasons I think I like being in technology, there are always new things to learn. Early last year I decided to start the class 100 Day of Swift […]
The unauthorized history of Wasted Time
I was really happy to see that Stephen Colbert and the team at the Late Show have created this historical back story for my App – Wasted Time Actually, Wasted Time is more than a clock. It tracks how much time is wasted getting your meeting started. Check it out!
100 Days of Swift – Notes App
How I almost recreated the iOS Notes App in Swift
WWDC 2022 – Day Five – Smooth Landing
Wow, this week has flown by and I’ve learned a lot, but I still have tons more to learn. While I have less sessions planned today, I am sure I can find other sessions I will watch. So let’s get started. Creating accessible Single App Mode Experiences Single mode apps, lock the system to a […]
WWDC 2022 – Day Four – The nitty gritty
Yesterday was a really productive day. As always, there was too much content to get to it all, but I learned a ton of new things that I want to go back and learn more about over the summer. There were multiple sessions that have led me to rethink some of my existing code in […]
WWDC Day three – Catching up
As usual I was a bit overly ambitious yesterday and ran out of time. So I have a few more sessions I have to watch this morning before things get going. The first of which is: The SwiftUI cookbook for navigation Review of new APIs for navigation across of SwiftUI. This will provide simple receipts […]
WWDC Day two – Into the meat of the matter
As always I am going to give my first impressions for all the sessions I go thru. Today is always the busiest day and I may have some spill over into tomorrow. But I am excited to get started: Let’s start with what is new in Xcode – Xcode is 30% smaller – I noticed […]
Apple Design Awards 2022
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 […]
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 […]