Sophomore year of college, my friend Mike has an idea to build new chairs. Not just any seats though, take the chairs out of a 1985 Pontiac Fiero, and make regular desk chairs out of them. Being sophomoric, I have no reasonable objection, so he starts scouring Craigslist. We find a guy in Jersey selling…
If you can’t pay people a reasonable wage and stay open, you should reassess your business.
As I switched over from Gmail to Fastmail.fm, I was looking for a mail client to replace my beloved Mailbox on iOS. I would have loved to continued using it, but it only supports Gmail, and not regular IMAP, so I needed a new client. Since I now have come to rely on the snooze…
Eat as much as you can tonight so you can make your New Years resolution to lose weight easier!
Last year I spent a lot of time gathering pieces, and in 2014 I’d like to put them together. More server-side programming I’ve been doing iOS now for almost 5 years now. I always want to work on the whole stack, but I never have found myself drawn to a language that’s useful on the…
The Good 1. You can’t just get funding for any old idea. Being the financial capital world means that people are wary of giving money to stupid ideas. Ok, ok, less wary, but it still happens. But New York is very grounded with respect to technology, and that gives me [some] confidence in the ideas…
Based on beta 1 of iOS 7 (so take it with a grain of salt): from skeumorphic to schizophrenic. Lack of visual distinction between a button and a label is confusing so far. So is how thin the fonts are, making it hard to read. I am surprised they didn’t go with Avenir as their…
Last night I pulled the first application that I ever wrote from the App Store. Craig Glaser and I (mostly Craig) came up with the idea of creating heat maps for players in MLB. We thought it would be a cool visualization, and were convinced we could sell thousands of copies and be App Store…
Update: I quit using Facebook altogether about a year after this post was written. I really enjoyed using Facebook as described below, the product was actually quite pleasant, but it didn’t provide me with enough value to overcome the moral issues associated with the company. I also wrote about how I stay in touch with…
It’s not their fault. tldr; It sucks that iOS apps can’t update in the background, but I get why Apple does this. No biggie, it would just make a lot of apps better, but at the cost of thinking about battery consumption. P.S. You can’t read 200 words, really? This week, a product that I…