Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and start talking at me. And you don’t stop. You are a Democrat, an outspoken atheist, and a foo
Photo: Platon. Grooming by Marco Braca at Kramer + Kramer. Tumblr Founded: 2007 Age of CEO: 27 Number of Tumblr users: 140 million Lesson: Youth can be worth more than $1 billion to a twenty-year-old
Today I learned that Apple’s NSURLConnection class was originally written for the first release of Safari in 2003. I had always wondered why the NSURLConnection API was designed as it is. Now that I k
Uniquely Yours July 14, 2013 When you’re working on something new, maybe an app, game, business idea, podcast, open source library, or other creative endeavor, there’s a predicable moment that occurs.
How to Prepare for Pre Black Friday Sales: 5 SEO Tips to Keep in Mind Black Friday is slowly approaching and it is time to make a plan! Use these 5 SEO tips and prepare properly for pre Black Friday sales! After Thanksgiving, you know what’s coming? Yes, that is correct, Black Friday is coming. The…
Vim addicts, or Eclipsaholics, Visual Studients… There are as many IDE religions as there are IDEs. People crow about text completion and automatic refactoring, speedy text manipulation, and how quickly they can navigate between files. Their productivity, they happily say, is much higher with their…
3 min read · Apr 29, 2013 -- I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone u
I have been thinking a lot about simplifying my life recently. I started a stellar new job four months ago and it felt like a great time to change other parts of my life. I used to be a slave to my st
Back in 2010, my startup FlightCaster had hit some serious obstacles and we needed to pivot. We had set a deadline for ourselves for some metrics and we failed to meet them. It was a bruising time. We had to let half the team go. I had to tell my investors what had gone wrong. They asked that we…
Clear in the iCloud There has been a lot of talk about iCloud + CoreData (referred to as iCCD hereafter) over the past few months and I think it is a good time for me to share our journey in getting i
How I Write May 31st, 2013 Yesterday, I read Shawn Blanc’s new piece, The Root of Non-Writing . Fittingly, I was procrastinating from working on an article at the time. Shawn talks about the value of
It’s been a while since I was hiring at a startup, and recruiting at a startup is very different from hiring at a big company. At Yahoo! Search, it seemed like we were constantly hiring. I did an average of 5-8 interviews a week. It was a never-ending drumbeat of resumes, interviews, and offer…
If you hadn’t noticed, every Google service has been trending toward a certain understated elegance. The company’s infamous era of championing 41 shades of blue is long over, as the company has learne
How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right May 19, 2013 WWDC 2013 is fast approaching, and chances are good that we'll get some sort of preview and song and dance about how iCloud sync is even b
"I've solved this problem before." "I need to sort out the technical requirements first…" "I've already implemented the following…" If you ever hear someone utter phrases like these at the start of a
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21 May 2013 32 minutes As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes
The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ ringleader ” in a sche
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your bestbet would
Master the art of asking great questions. Questions are the driving force of learning. The faster you can optimize your ability to learn, the faster you’ll get where you want to go. Outside of exams,
I’ve been blogging for almost eleven years, and I’ve been writing at this domain for almost nine. In that time, I’ve used several different blogging platforms ( blosxom , b2 , one I made myself called
What additional abilities should designers acquire? There are many debates regarding this. Is it better for designers to learn how to code, write, or comprehend the underlying principles of business?
Every product that has ever existed has had to deal with feedback. The most interesting feedback happens before the product ever ships, incomments and discussion amongst your teammates. Should we leav
Recently I’ve come across Justin Williams and Martin Pilkingtons posts describing their solutions about working with Core Data in single-window multiple-view applications.
Reading these, I thought about my own solution to the same challenge. I’ve tried different ways I thought of, most of them…
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StreamBuilder: our open-source framework for powering your dashboard. Today, we’re abnormally jazzed to announce that we’re open-sourcing the custom framework we built to power your dashboard on Tumbl
There’s an ongoing argument that because iOS is now the oldest mobile operating system, Apple needs to jazz it up a bit. Writing for ZDNet, James Kendrick encapsulates it : Apple’s iOS home screens ar
Aurich Lawson Apple's iCloud is marketed to us end users as a convenient and centralized way to manage data on all of our Macs and iOS devices: sync contacts and bookmarks, re-download music and apps,
As some of you know, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year working with iCloud in Mac and iOS apps. Specifically, working with Core Data’s built-in support for iCloud. I’m going to be doing a se
When Apple announced the iPhone in 2007, they presented it as a device that did three things: made calls, played music and video, and browsed the web. When I saw the announcement, I knew that day that
A couple of weeks ago I chided The Next Web on App.net over their (then current) design. I like The Next Web , but I’ve never been a fan of their site design. In fact: most sites that I like and read
[Brent Simmons][1]: > How comfortable are you with outsourcing half your app to another company? The answer should be: not at all comfortable. Simmons’ argument has been linked all over the web as an
I just went through and removed all the analytics I had on this site and my podcast . There isn’t anything intrinsically wrong with collecting that kind of data. It can be useful and potentially essen
iOS Programmers: Don't Use Core Data over iCloud September 27, 2012, at 09:17:34 AM A few people have e-mailed me and friends have asked when they will get an iPad version of Songsmith . My standard response has been, "I'm going to roll out iCloud support and universal app at the same time".…
Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch at the C4 conference in 2007 defined indie as simply “non-large”. This covers not just the small, one- and two-person companies, but also the bigger software development shops like Realmac, Smile, Panic, and Omni that have 10-40 employees but still feel independent. They’re…
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