MouseosaurusRex
If your mouse were a tyrannosaurus rex, it would eat your face off before you could find it across multiple monitors. What I mean by that is, have you ever lost your mouse cursor across the giant...
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Using Reminders to Add Attachments to Calendar Events
I try to be prepared before work meetings. Usually, that’s just making sure I’ve jotted down any notes or discussion points I want to have ready. Depending on my mood and how far in advance I write...
View ArticleModern-day Apple
(I’m stealing the title of this post from the closing sentence of this one by Yilei Yang.) I don’t have anything to say about Apple’s new guidelines for external purchase links on the App Store that...
View Article“…not worthy of your love.”
Brent has a post today similar in spirit to my own but much more eloquently written. Just like the sixth finger in an AI-rendered hand, Apple’s policies for Distributing apps in the U.S. that provide...
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Because what the world needs is one more post about their initial reactions...
What follows are questions a few developer friends have been asking me via text message this weekend and my (slightly edited) replies. (I’m mostly writing this so Future Me can look back at my first...
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Break the Build On Purpose
Isaac Halvorson asked today I have a few hobby programming projects that I like to work on, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to make substantial progress on them. My free time is limited, and...
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It’s not about the 30 percent
In 2021, I received a cold email from an Apple director. They wanted to arrange a video call to learn more about developers’ opinions of the App Store. I was happy to oblige, but I think back now on...
View ArticleInner Workings
Ok, on a scale from 1 to Tyler-you’re-an-idiot, how dumb is this idea… TextBuddy 2.0 is gaining new features that apply per-editor window, and I need a place to stash those settings. It’s more than...
View ArticleLight Switch in a Dark Room
Prompted by this post from Mario Guzman, I was finally about to put into words what bothers me about Siri – and what I hope Apple’s upcoming A.I.-focused WWDC will improve. We’re over a decade into...
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Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new. This evening, we arrived home from touring a new city — checking out neighborhoods...
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