apple Apple at 9:41am In my post on using QuickTime to record an iOS device I mentioned the carrier and time are fixed at simple dots and 9:41am. Why 9:41am? Well I knew there was a reason behind it and did a quick search to review the reason. January 9th 2007 .. iPhone
The Best Apology Letter Ever I got this from Cards Against Humanity today - they accidentally messed up my order and had to apologize in their own style. Dear valued Cards Against Humanity customer, We fucked up. Your order is on its way, but we had a warehousing issue. If you ordered a 2014 Holiday
howto Recording Your iOS Device with QuickTime Player The Task You need to record your iPhone or iPad's screen to show someone a bug or demo a feature to your customers. In the past the only method available was to use a program like Reflector to emulate an AirPlay/Apple TV and then record on your
inspiration Getting Burned Out It's In Our Nature The human body seems to have a natural instinct to burn itself out. We find something we like and want to continue receiving those brain signals so we keep on doing the thing. Eventually our brain grows weary and sometimes our body too. My
apple Creating your Verse in the Play that is Life I've recently become a fan of Walt Whitman's poem from 1892 entitled "O Me! O Life!". I've heard the poem in the past but it has never resonated with me until hearing Daniel Steinberg, an iOS developer and trainer, used it in
ADHD Walking While Working - Another Step For Focus Walking While You Work I'm not going to link to any articles or research about the benefits of walking while you work. I've been standing at my desk since I started working at home and to me this is the next progression. I have ADHD and
flashtalk Things With Wheels Flash Talk Every year at Automattic we get together at what we call the Grand Meetup. Everyone is expected to give a four minute flash talk on any subject - literally any subject. Last year I described a funny story about a boss stealing my iPhone. This year I combined another funny
Android Don't turn off target !! This has to be the most useless and scary software update screens to date that I've seen. Don't get me wrong, I like Android and I'm getting back into developing software for it and iOS isn't blameless in the shit-UX department. I
Apple Pay Surviving with Apple Pay We've all done it - left your wallet at home and you're in a dire need for money, groceries, gas, etc. How do you get by if you can't get your wallet with your ID in short order? I was thinking about this problem
ifttt I Connected My Standing Desk to Evernote I've been using an UpDesk since I started working from home in July 2013. I typically try to stand over half of the day being careful to not hurt my lower back with multiple days of standing fatigue. I do plenty of stretches and general movement while standing
macintosh Oh My Zsh Error About Battery I recently got a new work computer and instead of using Time Machine to restore, I decided to install everything fresh. I installed Oh My Zsh (which is fantastic by the way) which I used on my previous machine. My favorite theme is Candy Kingdom. After switching and relaunching Terminal
howto Providing Emergency Contacts with iOS 8 The Problem Something that has been missing on iOS for a long time is a reliable way to provide emergency contact information. Imagine you're out and about and you end up having an accident or have an acute attack from a known medical condition you have. We all
humor Stabby I love the word "stabby". It typically means, if you're feeling stabby, that you would like to stab someone or something because of your current emotional state. Stabby can also describe the state of a thing - like "pairing bluetooth headsets is stabby" because
My Reaction to Tim Cook's Coming Out It's definitely not any surprise to me that Tim Cook is gay. When he became CEO of Apple and after Steve Jobs' death it was talked about. I was surprised for a brief moment upon that initial discovery but was happy to see Apple embracing diversity at
challenge Blogging U.’s Photo 101 Course: Post a Photo a Day WordPress.com's Daily Post is holding an online photo blogging course called Photo 101. It starts Monday, November 3rd and it goes through November 28th. Each day a topic is presented and it's your challenge to post a photo that is your interpretation of the topic.
core data Core Data Object IDs can change I thought I knew a lot about Core Data with having used it a lot over the past years. Today, I learned something new that I feel like I should have known for a long time. NSManagedObjectIDs can change. Seriously. If you want a different notion of identity, you can
Code Dependent Plus using dependency managers like CocoaPods tends to get unwieldily the larger your team gets. Not only do you have to worry about the libraries as dependencies but now you have to worry about the versioning of the dependency manager. Oy!
Automattic 2014 Automattic Grand Meetup At Automattic we all are a distributed workforce - we all work from all over the world. Every few months we meet up with our teammates and work on projects designed to be started and finished within the week. Once a year the entire company gets together in one place
Mac OS X Server Mac OS X Server Time Machine Volume Filling Too Fast I've been noticing on my Mac OS X Mavericks 10.8 Server I have running in a data center has been filling up its Time Machine volume way too quickly. The backups are continually huge and only about a week fits on the second hard drive inside of
Long-Running MacBook Pro I've noticed a trend lately - I never shut down my MacBook Pro(s) any more. Ever since Power Nap came out I tend to just leave my machines running all the time, even if they're on battery. Even with boot times being so fast on
asynchronous Asynchronous unit testing Core Data with Xcode 6 The WordPress for iOS project had a number of unit tests using Core Data and a custom asynchronous test helper. The helper used a semaphore in a global scope and a bit of method swizzling to give a wait/notify mechanism. The problem with this solution was the global semaphore
Things With Wheels Are Meant to Move, No? I met some fellow coworkers at Hudson Business Lounge downtown Milwaukee today on a $25 day pass. I've been a member in the past but haven't been there in over a year. I sat down and realized that the four of us wouldn't fit
architecture Systems Philosophy I was apparently feeling philosophical the other day and posted two tweets about dealing with systems architecture. They generally apply to life as well, so I'm posting them here on my blog so I don't forget them. Just because something was done a certain way, doesn&
