It's really not that bad. I think I might prefer it to Android soon. Interface Builder and Storyboards are nicer than Android's XML layouts, but you have the learning curve of the message-passing component linking GUI. I was really annoyed with iOS for using IBOutlets and delegates to programatically link…
This post is a WIP outline. Feel free to read it if you'd like. People love attending fireworks events and laser light shows. It's awe-inspiring to see coordinated events happen on a scale so much larger than a single person. It's even more incredible to become a part of the…
Ever heard an album or a song for the first time and loved it so much you played it on repeat for three days straight? I wanted to dig into my listening history to find out which songs I loved, got sick of, and forgot about for years. Good thing…
I just rediscovered some code I wrote for the University of Minnesota's "Structure of Computer Programming I", a course I took three years ago. CSCI 1901 focused mostly on learning Scheme with everyone's favorite Scheme textbook, the venerable SICP from MIT. To get better at writing Scheme, I…
Your website looks like it's from '06. Your images look blurry when those kids pull up your site on their fancy new Retina MacBooks and iPad Airs. What do? Wait for srcset to come out Implement srcset-polyfill with code that isn't production-ready Send your users images at 2X resolution, even…
Auto route, yo. (Check out the HTML5 video here.)…
The other day I was using the fantastic file diff application Kaleidoscope, and I wanted to integrate the diff functionality with my SVN client. Kaleidoscope provides a terminal tool called KSdiff that integrates the GUI Kaleidoscope application with other programs. However, after installing KSdiff from the Kaleidoscope website as directed,…
tl;dr If you want to get started with your Latitude data right away, check out my gist at the bottom. I've started a new project! I'm investigating ways to share my life with others electronically, with little to no conscious effort on my part. One of the things I'd…