• An aerial photo of Lake Michigan in the winter. Ice sheets of various sizes and densities cover most of the lake's surface.
    📸 Day 20: Ice
    📍 Lake Michigan, Chicago, 2018, iPhone 7 Plus

    Saturday April 20, 2024

  • 🎨 Art Museum lets you browse public domain collections from the Art Institute of Chicago, The Met, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    It’s a native iOS app built with SwiftUI, CloudKit, Core Data and App Intents. Here’s the first TestFlight! I’m very open to any feedback, experiences, ideas, or bugs if you’re moved to share. I plan to release V1 soon and keep building from there.

    artmuseum.app

    Friday April 19, 2024

  • A large crowd of people wave paper Japanese flags outside of Tokyo Imperial Palace.
    📸 Day 19: Birthday
    📍 The Emperor’s Birthday, Tokyo Imperial Palace, 2016, iPhone 7 Plus


    🔊 a cheering crowd waving paper flags


    Friday April 19, 2024

  • A vintage LP from Kodak called Sound: Background Music for your personal movies. It includes 12 orchestral moods and 13 sound effects.
    📸 Day 18: Mood

    Thursday April 18, 2024

  • A wide shot of Lumen Field during Beyonce. Warm purple ambience with skinny white lights shining up into the Seattle skyline.
    📸 Day 17: Transcendence
    📍 Beyoncé, Renaissance World Tour, Lumen Field, Seattle, 2023, iPhone 11 Pro Max

    Wednesday April 17, 2024
  • A museum visitor looks up at a two segment painting. The left frame is a tall rectangle. The right frame, connecting midway down, is a more typical portrait sized canvas. Together these impressionist oil paintings capture a picnic under a beautiful tree.

    📸 Day 16: Flâneur
    📍 Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2023, iPhone 11 Pro Max
    🎨 Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe

    Tuesday April 16, 2024

  • A wall exhibit of small physical media formats on display at SONY's headquarters in Tokyo, including micro-cassette, DAT, MiniDisc, and CD.
    📸 Day 15: Small
    📍 SONY Building, Ginza, 2016, iPhone 7 Plus
    📺 It’s A Sony Exhibition on YouTube

    Monday April 15, 2024

  • A huge sprawling cactus growing in all directions with yellow and pink flowers all over it. And a bee flying by.
    📸 Day 14: Cactus
    Griffith Park, 2017, iPhone 7 Plus

    Sunday April 14, 2024

  • A printed sheet showing exactly how each kind of bottled water should be placed on the shelf at CVS.
    📸 Day 13: Page
    I love it when stores leave a page of shelf schematic laying around. It’s like my Pokemon.

    Saturday April 13, 2024

  • A keynote presenter on stage. The large slide behind them shows a red sequin pillow case with the face of Nicolas Cage hiding behind the sequins.
    📸 Day 12: Magic
    Nicolas Cage Magic Reversible Sequin Pillow Cover
    Amazon re:MARS, Las Vegas, 2019, iPhone 7 Plus

    Friday April 12, 2024

  • A dark sky at night filled with lots and lots of stars.
    📸 Day 11: Sky
    Hawaii at night

    Thursday April 11, 2024

  • A dark green train Disneyland Railroad train car passing through New Orleans Square in Frontierland.
    📸 Day 10: Train
    Anaheim, iPhone 6 Plus, 2016

    Wednesday April 10, 2024

  • A sign at a supermarket seafood counter shows 6 preparation options in English, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Spanish. Option 6 is 'Crispy Fry'.
    📸 Day 9: Crispy
    San Gabriel Valley, iPhone 5, 2014

    Tuesday April 9, 2024

  • Just submitted my first ever iOS app for App Store review. Wow! Once I’m over this hurdle I plan to enable a public Test Flight.

    Tuesday April 9, 2024

  • A Smokey The Bear cartoon sign in the woods, with a fire danger rating of 'Very High' and a reminder that 'Only You Can Prevent Wildfires'.
    📸 Day 8: Prevention

    Monday April 8, 2024

  • A colorful platter of sliced Hawaiian tropical fruits, including rambutan, passion fruit, star fruit, star apple, egg fruit and more!
    📸 Day 7: Well-being

    Sunday April 7, 2024

  • George Washington blowing in the wind on the Washington state flag.
    📸 Day 6: Windy

    Saturday April 6, 2024
  • Two white geese with their heads overlapping one in front of the other, looking in opposite directions in the mountains of Oaxaca.

    📸 Day 5: Serene
    Oaxaca, iPhone 6 Plus, 2016

    Friday April 5, 2024

  • WWDC24 at Apple Park ticket lottery… 👎🏻 see you on Slack

    Thursday April 4, 2024

  • A discarded Lime electric scooter on it's side in a field of ivy with foliage growing over it.
    📸 Day 4: Foliage

    Thursday April 4, 2024

  • Seems like maybe Xcode Cloud / TestFlight / App Store Connect are all short circuiting right now… ?

    Wednesday April 3, 2024

  • Just bailed on using an App Intents Extension because putting the intents in my main app target fixed a number of issues and made debugging way easier.

    Wednesday April 3, 2024

  • Vintage rectangular punch cards from the early computing era, featuring rows of tiny numbers with a smattering of punched holes to represent data.
    📸 Day 3: Card
    From the book Print Punch: Artefacts From The Punch Card Computing Era. Published by CentreCentre (2020).

    Wednesday April 3, 2024

  • When you run a Shortcut with a visual Snippet from the Shortcuts app, it pops up as an overlay. You can tap the snippet, or the Done button to dismiss it.

    But when you run the same Shortcut via Siri, the visual snippet appears without a Done button, and tapping the snippet opens the source app.

    Tuesday April 2, 2024

  • New(ish?) App Intents sample code: developer.apple.com/documenta…

    Tuesday April 2, 2024
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