Stefan Urbanek is ranting the latest version of Keynote can’t open a presentation he made in 2008, saved in a file format two versions old. I was greeted with this message today when I was about to publish few more presentations on Slideshare about Knowledge Management. The offending presentation is…

A Note About Git Commit Messages 19 Apr 2008 I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commitmessage. I think the best practices for commit message formatting isone of the littl

One of my favorite podcasts is Edge Cases by Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch. (My superpower is that I can spell Wolf’s last name without looking it up.) You should listen. In the recent episode the

This article started when I once again became frustrated with notifications in iOS 7. I glanced at my phone and the screen was full of them. I sighed and I scrolled and – for an instant – half-saw a n

A few weeks ago, I posted my lengthy thoughts about Objective C , what’s wrong with it, and what I think will happen in the future with it: Apple is a product-driven company, not a computing-driven co

Understanding Job Burnout - Dr. Christina Maslach by Simon Harris Aug 30, 2023 (via Warren ) Dr. Christina Maslach discussing her many decades of research showing that job burnout is a response to chr

I don’t hate writing code in C. Quite the opposite — I love writing in C. It’s low-level enough to be fun. (Languages are fun when they’re either very low level or very high level.) From time to time

On Monday, I published an essay exploring some thoughts about a replacement for Objective C, how to really suss out what I think would benefit software developers the most, and how we could go about i

As is our way, like all nerds before us and all the nerds to follow, it is that time where we take a look at the future of our toolset and gnash our teeth. Ash Furrow kicks us off this time with, “We

A closer look at the iOS7 App Switcher Jan 10, 2014 Updates: If you want to play around, I’ve posted some code on Github . Adam Bell has some awesome details on how to add animations and keep cards up to date. Check out his blog post for more details. How do you know of incoming messages when you…

Remove distractions. Start with a blank slate. What will you create? Great post by @rands http://t.co/6ktbPHalpF

These days we all pull-to-refresh for a living. Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic that 2013 may be the year “the stream” crested: The great irony is that we got what we wanted from the stream: a

Core Animation is an advanced compositing and animation framework for iOS and OS X. Not only does it open up the ability to perform incredible animations with just a few lines of code, but it also includes powerful objects called layers, which are extremely lightweight objects that contain some type…

You’re not supposed to hear these sorts of things from these sorts of people. Things have gone well for those chosen to speak at conferences like XOXO: credibility, attention, success—whatever brass ring a person might want to reach for—they’ve got it. They are them, and they are great, so why the…