Turning 30
The people I looked up to when I learned to program are now getting to about 50 and I've seen many of them suffer from stress »
Adventures in Vimscript
Last week Vim 8.0 came out. I was pretty excited because, among other things, Vim now supports asynchronously running code in plugins. Until now, if »
Modifier Keys
A keyboard big enough to have all the possible letters and symbols you would need to type when coding or even writing an email would need »
Transference
One of the signs of an expert programmer is a thing I call transference. I learned about it while reading a book about learning to play »
Building the KC60
Recently I have been super pumped on mechanical keyboards. I found one small enough to easily use when I'm on the couch or in a café »
Fun With Typing
As a developer, I spend quite a bit of time typing. Typing code, typing email responses to clients and recruiters, typing jokes in Slack. As a »
The difference between classes and structs in Swift
Today I assigned my students (I teach a bootcamp now) to write 400-500 words about one of the topics we have covered in class, so I »
Swift Enums for Error Reporting
In Apple's block-based API's, you'll often see a pattern like this: func dataTaskWithRequest(request: NSURLRequest, completionHandler: (NSData?, NSURLResponse?, NSError?) -> Void) -> NSURLSessionDataTask The »
Semitones 1.0.1 Released
Up to the day I am writing this, Semitones has earned me 122$ in proceeds. That's after Apple's 30% cut from sales through the App Store. »
Introducing Semitones
In the last few years, I've started taking my bass playing more seriously. I've found a teacher, joined in on jam sessions, and sat in for »
What I'm Working On
Some of you have been asking what I'm working on lately, so here's your answer. Practicing music. Teaching programming. Developing my music app. 1. Practicing music. »
Handling iOS image uploads with Paperclip
If any of you happen to do some backend work and iOS work at the same time or work on a team that does, this might »
Gateway View Controller: A Pattern for handling app login
As Apple recommends in their Interface Guidelines, apps should try provide functionality without requiring a login. Ideally, an app would only ask for your login information »
One Platform At A Time
We work and talk with many startups and a question that often comes up is, “Does it make sense to build our product for iOS and »
Roundwall Software's Open Source
At Úll this year, Arik Devens challenged us to share more open source code with each other. Here at Roundwall Software, we benefit greatly from open »
Custom Segues for Fun and Profit
With new devices like the iPhone 6+, even naysayers are considering using Storyboards. Adopting Storyboards, even for a portion of your app, means easy access to »
Why
One important part of success in any field is answering the question “Why?” As a musician, you might play a solo that everyone is impressed with, »
App Video v2
My previous demo video was confusing to many people, so here is attempt #2. It's getting better! »
Operation Morale-Boost: Ghosty Progress
While this project hasn't quite turned out like I originally intended, it has resulted in a fairly useful app I'm happy with. It has some rough »
Untitled
Project: Untitled something Total: $0.00 Made with Chainguard.app itms://itunes.com/apps/chainguard (Everything above is my first published post from my app-in-progress Ghosty. »