Posts

2026

June

• → Swift Concurrency Lab at Swift Rockies22 Jun 2026∞

2025

June

• Type-safe notifications and async stream monitoring with Swift 66 Jun 2025

2024

April

• Reverse-engineering the photos-navigation URL scheme on iOS18 Apr 2024

2017

October

• A nil-coalescing alternative for Swift6 Oct 2017

2016

August

• Easy Optimization Wins10 Aug 2016
• A Git Pre-commit Hook for iOS4 Aug 2016

April

• Tales of PRK Laser Eye Surgery11 Apr 2016

March

• → Reduce the cognitive load of your code30 Mar 2016∞
• → Moving Beyond the OOP Obsession28 Mar 2016∞

2015

August

• → Cloak's Updated Privacy Policy26 Aug 2015∞
• → Acorn 5's Live Help Search24 Aug 2015∞

July

• → Swift: New stuff in Xcode 7 Beta 39 Jul 2015∞
• → Scripts to Rule Them All1 Jul 2015∞

June

• → Debugging Layouts with Recursive View Descriptions in Xcode2 Jun 2015∞
• → The Unofficial Guide to xcconfig files1 Jun 2015∞

May

• → GitHub Flow Like a Pro28 May 2015∞
• → Magical Wristband26 May 2015∞
• → Undocumented CoreStorage Commands23 May 2015∞
• → Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon21 May 2015∞
• → A bitcoin miner in every device and in every hand18 May 2015∞
• → Constraints and Transforms in iOS 815 May 2015∞
• → Importing Modules in LLDB11 May 2015∞
• → Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines9 May 2015∞

2014

February

• Structure of an Ember app3 Feb 2014

2013

September

• Linky27 Sep 2013

March

• Zelda Tones for iOS6 Mar 2013

2012

January

• → Fujitsu has lost their mind19 Jan 2012∞
• → SOPA lives - and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"17 Jan 2012∞
• → Recovering From a Computer Science Education17 Jan 2012∞
• → The $40 Standup Desk9 Jan 2012∞
• → Yak shaving4 Jan 2012∞

2011

December

• → The Broken Pixel Theory25 Dec 2011∞
• → New Release of Firefox for Android, Optimized for Tablets25 Dec 2011∞
• → My kind of feature checklist19 Dec 2011∞
• → I see HTTP15 Dec 2011∞
• → Pure CSS3 images? Hmm, maybe later11 Dec 2011∞
• A Static URL Shortener Using .htaccess10 Dec 2011

November

• → Lights27 Nov 2011∞
• Recovering Old Blog Posts27 Nov 2011

2010

November

• 37signals' Chalk Dissected4 Nov 2010

January

• A preview of Mach-O file generation20 Jan 2010
• Basics of the Mach-O file format18 Jan 2010
• Working with C-style structs in Ruby17 Jan 2010

2009

November

• Using Emacs to Develop Mojo Apps for WebOS21 Nov 2009

2008

March

• Project Euler code repo in Arc3 Mar 2008

February

• Thoughts on Arc19 Feb 2008

January

• Random pet peeve of the day7 Jan 2008

2007

October

• Gtkpod in Gutsy Got You Groaning?29 Oct 2007

September

• Python and Ruby brain dump26 Sep 2007
• Learning Lisp? Read PCL25 Sep 2007

August

• 5 ways to avoid looking like a jerk on the Internet30 Aug 2007
• Captivating little creatures26 Aug 2007
• Cheat productively in Emacs21 Aug 2007
• Catch compiler errors at runtime19 Aug 2007
• Opera is pretty slick11 Aug 2007
• Cheat from Emacs9 Aug 2007
• Snap, crunchle, pop9 Aug 2007
• ElSchemo: Boolean logic and branching2 Aug 2007

July

• people12 Jul 2007
• See your regular expressions in Emacs6 Jul 2007
• RushCheck: QuickCheck for Ruby5 Jul 2007
• A TextMate tip for Emacs users3 Jul 2007

June

• Controlling volume via the keyboard on Linux30 Jun 2007
• Recent Ruby and Rails Regales28 Jun 2007
• Emacs: tagify-region-or-insert-tag25 Jun 2007
• RTFM!25 Jun 2007
• Propaganda makes me sick25 Jun 2007
• Floating point in ElSchemo24 Jun 2007
• Emacs for TextMate junkies22 Jun 2007
• Embrace the database22 Jun 2007
• Reinventing the wheel20 Jun 2007
• Back on Gentoo, trying new things18 Jun 2007
• Begging the question15 Jun 2007
• test/spec on rails declared awesome, just one catch14 Jun 2007
• More Scheming with Haskell13 Jun 2007
• so long typo (and thanks for all the timeouts)8 Jun 2007
• 301 moved permanently8 Jun 2007

May

• Finnish court rules CSS ineffective at protecting DVDs26 May 2007
• Inspirado22 May 2007
• iPhone Humour18 May 2007
• Cheating at Life in General16 May 2007
• Dumping Objects to the Browser in Rails15 May 2007
• Enumurable#pluck and String#to_proc for Ruby10 May 2007
• Rails Plugins (link dump)9 May 2007
• I Can't Wait to See What Trey Parker & Matt Stone Do With This9 May 2007
• dtrace + Ruby = Goodness for Sun9 May 2007
• A New Way to Look at Networking5 May 2007
• Gotta Love the Ferry Ride5 May 2007
• A Scheme parser in Haskell: Part 13 May 2007
• Typo and I are friends again1 May 2007

April

• Funny how code can be beautiful30 Apr 2007
• Quickly inserting millions of rows with MySQL/InnoDB26 Apr 2007
• Getting to know Vista16 Apr 2007
• ActiveRecord::Base.find_or_create and find_or_initialize11 Apr 2007
• A triple-booting, schizophrenic MacBook4 Apr 2007

March

• Diggscuss 0.925 Mar 2007
• Digg v4: Reply to replies (Greasemonkey script)8 Mar 2007
• Full-screen Cover Flow6 Mar 2007

2006

December

• Coping with Windows XP activiation on a Mac17 Dec 2006

September

• Some features you might have missed in iTunes 722 Sep 2006
• → Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo16 Sep 2006∞

August

• Where are my headphones?22 Aug 2006

July

• Class method? Instance method? It doesn't matter to PHP21 Jul 2006
• Late static binding19 Jul 2006
• Ruby and Rails have spoiled me rotten17 Jul 2006
• Ubuntu: Linux for Linux users please13 Jul 2006
• Working with the Zend Framework6 Jul 2006

June

• Apple pays attention to detail11 Jun 2006
• There's nothing regular about regular expressions10 Jun 2006
• Never buy a German keyboard!9 Jun 2006
• Ich bin Ausländer und spreche nicht gut Deutsch5 Jun 2006

May

• WikipediaFS on Linux, in Python7 May 2006
• OS X and Fitt's law7 May 2006

April

• zsh terminal goodness on OS X4 Apr 2006

March

• I don't mind FairPlay either3 Mar 2006
• Spore3 Mar 2006
• Generate self.down in your Rails migrations3 Mar 2006

February

• SJ's Rails Bundle 0.2 for TextMate23 Feb 2006
• Intelligent Migration Snippets 0.1 for TextMate22 Feb 2006
• TextMate: Insert text into self.down21 Feb 2006
• TextMate: Move selection to self.down21 Feb 2006
• TextMate Snippets for Rails Assertions20 Feb 2006
• Obligatory Post about Ruby on Rails20 Feb 2006
• Some TextMate snippets for Rails Migrations18 Feb 2006
• Jump to view/controller in TextMate18 Feb 2006
• Girlfriend X18 Feb 2006
• Urban Extreme Gymnastics?15 Feb 2006
• Touch Screen on Steroids8 Feb 2006
• First Post!7 Feb 2006