• I’m breaking ground on a companion Mac app today. It’s main job is to ingest JSON records, transform them to match a CloudKit schema and write them to a public CloudKit database.

    And my neighbors are jack hammering their patio, which is bringing some good build something ambiance.

    CloudKit

    Saturday July 22, 2023
  • I’m building a reader app for images. The content is all similar (in the same subject domain) – but coming from multiple sources, each with it’s own schema. Some is available via API, but some is only via data dump.

    Phase 1 is defining a common schema, fetching all the data, normalizing it into the shared schema, and then writing it all into a public CloudKit database.

    T-minus 59 days...

    CloudKit

    Friday July 21, 2023
  • I’ve been a Mac user most of my life. But I've never developed for Apple platforms until now, so I’ve never written any Objective-C. I started learning Swift and SwiftUI last fall. Prior to that, my work revolved around AWS and node.js, so I’ve had to rewire my brain quite a bit.

    Friday July 21, 2023
  • I’m designing and building my first Apple app. My goal is to ship alongside iOS 17 — which given past as prologue, is most likely September 18th.

    So I have 60 days to make an app.

    Thursday July 20, 2023
  • An empty museum display box titled 'Your Innovation Here', at the end of a wall of similar boxes filled with various inventions.

    📍 MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) — Seattle, WA

    Thursday July 20, 2023
  • I need to learn so many things.

    Wednesday July 19, 2023
  • There are always more things.

    Wednesday July 19, 2023
  • There are so many things.

    Wednesday July 19, 2023
  • I want to make so many things.

    Wednesday July 19, 2023
  • photograph, colored pattern of HomePods, wall mounted display at Apple Store

    some pods

    Thursday July 13, 2023
  • Are you reading this or are you hearing this? Is this a transcript of a podcast or a spoken blog post? What is this place?

    This is words and sound about making apps with words and sound.

    Tuesday July 11, 2023