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Gathering the Goods, Part 2
My first run at a packing list was suprisingly solid: everything worked pretty much as intended and there wasn’t anything I desparately missed or needed during my US trip. However, I misjudged the...
View ArticleOld iPhone Tricks: GPS Tracker
This is the time of year when a lot of people are upgrading their phones. If you are, don’t chuck your old phone just yet!Here’s a thing you might not know about your iPhone1: the GPS unit works even...
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The Trials and Tribulations of Writing a 3rd Party iOS Keyboard
I recently released my first commercial project: Translit Keyboard, a 3rd party keyboard for iPhone that lets you transliterate Latin characters into Cyrillic and some other alphabets. When I was first...
View ArticleWhat's Up with Google Maps These Days?
When Apple replaced its Google-powered maps app with a complete in-house rewrite for iOS 6, most users had little good to say about it. It was inaccurate. It lacked public transit directions. The...
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State of the Union
I’m sure bad at this blogging thing. Since I first set out in — technically, July 2013, but let’s say August — I’ve only gotten one week into my journey before hanging up. I’d like to see if I can try...
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Vancouver
On August 23rd, 2013, my Seattle friends and I boarded the Amtrak Cascades and headed up north in the direction of Vancouver. I couldn’t resist bringing along a small bag of produce and dairy that I’d...
View ArticleWho cares about the Apple Watch Edition?
It’s disappointing to see many of my favorite Apple bloggers devote so much of their time to Apple Watch Edition gossip. How much of it is going to be solid gold? Will it be $5000, $10000, $15000? How...
View ArticleWhat's Up with Google Maps These Days?
When Apple replaced its Google-powered maps app with a complete in-house rewrite for iOS 6, most users had little good to say about it. It was inaccurate. It lacked public transit directions. The...
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State of the Union
I’m sure bad at this blogging thing. Since I first set out in — technically, July 2013, but let’s say August — I’ve only gotten one week into my journey before hanging up. I’d like to see if I can try...
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Vancouver
On August 23rd, 2013, my Seattle friends and I boarded the Amtrak Cascades and headed up north in the direction of Vancouver. I couldn’t resist bringing along a small bag of produce and dairy that I’d...
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The Klean Kanteen 32oz Insulated Stainless Steel Growler (With Swing Lok Cap)
One vital lesson I’ve been recently learning in regards to the pleasures of rampant materialism is that it’s incredibly important to surround yourself with objects that not only work well, but feel...
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Vancouver
On August 23rd, 2013, my Seattle friends and I boarded the Amtrak Cascades and headed up north in the direction of Vancouver. I couldn’t resist bringing along a small bag of produce and dairy that I’d...
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Backgroundifier
I made a Mac app! It’s called Backgroundifier, and it turns any image into a desktop background. (But it’s better for fine art and illustration.)You can pass an image like this……through the droplet……to...
View ArticleiPad Pro + Pencil Slow Motion Bug
I noticed an interesting problem with the Apple Pencil while developing my app. It seems that if you’re using the Pencil while simultaneously using a gesture recognizer (as, for instance, in a scroll...
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The Stanley 64oz Classic Vacuum Growler
Shortly after I posted my Klean Kanteen review, Stanely offered to send me one of their own bottles to play around with: the 64oz Classic Vacuum Growler. I was quite happy with the build quality of the...
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The Perfect Travel Gaiwan
Loose-leaf tea is a bit of a finicky hobby. Unlike the boring old teabag, you can’t just dump a bunch of tea leaves in a cup of boiling water and expect good results. At the very least, you need a way...
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Rethinking Musical Notation with Composer's Sketchpad
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Path Rendering in Composer's Sketchpad
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Liberating Pitch and Taming MIDI in Composer's Sketchpad
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View ArticleHeadphone Jacks Are the New Power Plugs
Blog comments are out, blog responses are in — and so I thought I’d respond to John Gruber’s recent article titled “Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives”. Here’s why I think removing the headphone...
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