• 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
  • A bouquet of colorful wildflowers from the Lego Botanical Collection.
    📸 Day 2: Flowers
    I love real flowers and Lego flowers.

    Tuesday April 2, 2024
  • first Apple Silicon era Mac freeze. no beach ball but keyboard and trackpad just stopped working

    Monday April 1, 2024
  • A small wood toy car, assembled from a kit and glued together.
    📸 Day 1: Toy
    I don’t have a ton of memories of my grandpa. But I remember building this wood car together at his workbench in the garage when I was super young. Happy I still have it.

    Monday April 1, 2024
  • Xcode Cloud is neat. I’m so glad they extended the 25 hours/month for free.

    Friday March 29, 2024
  • hello momentum, how i’ve missed you.

    Thursday March 28, 2024
  • I’ve been really stuck on a project for a while but I’m breaking through and it feels good.

    Thursday March 28, 2024
  • Come on now now!

    Wednesday March 27, 2024
  • A very annoying macOS bug somehow emptied out all my Launchpad folders. So now I have pages and pages of jumbled apps followed by a final page of empty folders.

    Tuesday March 26, 2024
  • very excited to attend Deep Dish Swift in Chicago this May!! my first indie developer conference since wading into Apple land

    Tuesday March 26, 2024
  • App Intents is the sleeper Apple framework that will one day tie it all together.

    Tuesday March 26, 2024
  • I needed spring

    Friday March 15, 2024
  • I found the Vision Pro demo person’s script at the Apple Store super distracting and off-putting. It was not a good experience.

    Thursday February 22, 2024
  • Surprised there was no demo or even mention of Siri in my 30 minute guided tour of Vision Pro at the Apple Store.

    Wednesday February 21, 2024
  • I was surprised how much light leaked in from under Vision Pro. I didn’t feel that immersed because of it.

    Tuesday February 20, 2024
  • Drives me nuts in VS Code Copilot chat when I’m drafting a prompt in the chat box and use an arrow key to move around the draft – but instead it brings me to the previous prompt (like arrowing thru terminal history) - and then i can’t arrow back to my draft and it’s just gone… grrrrr

    Wednesday January 31, 2024
  • Hit knee on desk. Yelled ouch. AirPods conversation mode ducked my music.

    Wednesday January 31, 2024
  • I try to do too many things at once.

    Friday January 26, 2024
  • I’ve been noodling back and forth between NavigationSplitView and TabView.

    Saturday January 13, 2024
  • I’ve been chasing my SwiftUI tail all day long.

    Friday January 12, 2024
  • The new iOS Journal app suggesting I journal about listening to a podcast about the new iOS Journal app.

    a screenshot from the iOS Journal app
    Friday January 12, 2024
  • Momentum feels good.

    Tuesday January 9, 2024