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November 2024

Apple Ads, Trust, Privacy, and a Premium Experience

Acorn, Retrobatch, and Gus Updates

Ken White: And Yet It Moves

Apple Buys Pixelmator

September 2024

My iPhone Battery Life After a Year at 80% Charge Limit

Is Safari Now a Bad Web Browser?

Six Colors Turns Ten

I Finally Climbed Flyboys

August 2024

The Canary Has Been Dead for a Long Time Now

July 2024

10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

May 2024

2024 Youth Regional Championships

March 2024

Retrobatch 2.1

February 2024

Acorn 7.4.4 Released

January 2024

40 Years of the Macintosh

November 2023

Retrobatch 2

October 2023

Five Watt World on Fender Japan

Stu Maschwitz on ProRes Log Video Recording With iPhone 15 Pro

How Herman Martinus Stays Motivated as a Solo-Creator

September 2023

Acorn 7.4.3 Released

Cat Hicks on Craft

July 2023

Rogue Amoeba: Poorly Thought Out Alerts

Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated

June 2023

Oh… So That's How Hash Tables Work

WWDC 2023

May 2023

BBEdit Turns 30

Screenshot Nerd Snipe

April 2023

Acorn 7.4 Is Out

LEGO Career Goals?

March 2023

VoodooPad 1.0 Was Released 20 Years Ago Today

January 2023

Official SQLite via WASM in the Browser

December 2022

Lite XL, a Super Fast Editor Written in Lua

Riffusion

November 2022

Black Friday Pick-Me-Apps

Recording Yourself 24x7, and Then Processing the Info

September 2022

20 Years of Rogue Amoeba

The Chouinard Family Restructures Patagonia to Help Flight Climate Change

This Is Why I'll Be Getting an Apple Watch Ultra (Eventually)

Changes for the 2nd Edition of Charles Petzold's "Code"

August 2022

Another Interesting Filter Combo for Acorn 7.3

A Geeky Filter for Acorn Arriving in 7.3

July 2022

Shortcuts Support in Acorn 7.2

June 2022

Twenty Years of Flying Meat

January 2022

What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?

December 2021

Tomoya Ikeda - Macintosh Artist

November 2021

Female Excellence in Rock Climbing

When Led Zeppelin Was in Seattle

10 Forgotten Image Formats

October 2021

Apple's Unleashed Event

September 2021

Ben Thompson on Apple's App Store Conundrum

Acorn 7.1 Is Out, and a Little Story on an Annoying Bug

Allen Pike on the Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform

August 2021

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

Acorn 7's 50% off Sale ends Monday the 23rd of August

Anecdotes About the macOS Sandbox File Limit

May 2021

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Turns 50

April 2021

Apple's April Security update for 10.15.7 breaks Acorn version 6 and lower, as well as Retrobatch (now fixed).

Myself on the Run Loop Podcast

March 2021

Acorn 7

January 2021

Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C, Passes

December 2020

The Brain-Activity of People Coding Is Different

Acorn 7 Testers Wanted

It's All Blues (Whales)

November 2020

The Pursuit of Tone: Buddy Guy

Older Versions of Acorn and Big Sur

How to Create a Bootable Installer for MacOS

Capo 4

Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac

Apple App Store Small Business Program

Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete

Acorn and Retrobatch ARM Updates, and various thoughts.

The Champagne is Flying

October 2020

I Voted, You Should Too

Idle Words on Protest and Power

September 2020

50 Years Since Jimi Left

Quarantine Report No. 5 - the Climbing Edition

July 2020

Bjango: Using SVGs in asset catalogs

June 2020

Germany’s Corona-Warn-App uses FMDB

More Mac and WWDC 2020 Thoughts

WWDC 2020 Reactions

Wil Shipley on the State of the App Store

Educated Guesses on Software Transitioning to MacOS on ARM

Quarantine Report No. 4

May 2020

Acorn 6.6 is out with new Shape Processors and more

My WWDC 2020 MacOS Wishlist

Dithering

Dan Moren's Adventures in Self-Publishing

April 2020

Retina Screenshots, Acorn, DPI, and Keynote

Quarantine Report No. 3

Gurman Says ARM Macs Are Coming

Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"

Quarantine Report No. 2

The Amazing Short Guitar Sounds of Kortney Sweikert on Instagram

March 2020

Retrobatch 1.4 Is Out

What's Happening These Days

MacOS 10.15.4 NSAttributedString Creation Changes

/r/Data Is Beautiful

Using Retrobatch to Watch My Seeds Grow

Ben Thompson on Zero Trust Information

YouTube Premium is Amazing

Why Don't Siri and AppleScript Work Together?

February 2020

ES-335s Sure Are Pretty Right After Birth

Smart Insert and Delete

Hacker Laws (AKA, Developer Laws)

Collings Guitars

January 2020

Jeff McLeman Has Passed Away

JetBrains Mono- Forget the Font How About That Site?

Willamette Week on Panic in the Games Publishing Business

Ugly Gerry, a Gerymandered Font

Climbing.com: Climbing Washington's Moderates

Margaret Hamilton Knows What's Up

Project Zero Remote iPhone Exploitation

The Grouchy Chef Says He's Not Grouchy

December 2019

Reverb.com: Kids Try Guitar Pedals for the First Time

Renaud Forestié on Tweening Curves

WebAssembly Becomes a W3C Recommendation

I Think I Found a Massive Memory Leak in Core Graphics

The New York Times Got My Knickers in a Twist

What Order to List Typefaces in a Font?

November 2019

A Couple More Posts Added to the Archives

One More Birthday Till the Legal Drinking Begins

They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken

Profile of Myself on the App Store

October 2019

Acorn 50% Off Sale and Retrobatch 1.3

Core Animation Reduces Power Usage in Firefox

Coffee and Chocolate Make You Smarter, According to the Latest Neuroscience

Xcoders Is About to Turn 15

September 2019

The New York Times on Blues Guitarist Robert Johnson

Behind the Dark Room

Performance and Working Fast

Photos From Our New Climbing Gym- Vertical World North

Camera and Image Processing Positions at Apple

App Movement Monitoring

Craig Hockenberry on This Summer's iCloud Clusterfuuuuuuuu

A Little Story About Bugs and Myself on the App Store

August 2019

NetNewsWire 5.0 Ships

July 2019

What to Do When You See Something Sketchy at the Climbing Gym

238 Seconds of Some Solid Guitar Playing

Acorn 6.5b1

June 2019

Ive Departs Apple

Apple Is Opening a 2k Person Engineering Office in Seattle

Play It Loud

A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore

FMJS Diary #1.5

Converting Acorn Images on the Command-Line

May 2019

Ben Lacy on IG

Pilkington on AppKit

Hockenberry on Marzipan

Ever Seen a JPEG Up This Close Before?

April 2019

Executing WebAssembly Binaries From Python

March 2019

January 2019

Curves and Deep Color in Acorn

Blown Out Curves

Detailing the iOS Menu

Loopback 2's New UI

November 2018

SubEthaEdit Goes Open Source

Multiple Return Values in JavaScript

Indexed PNGs in the Latest Builds

FastMail Is Kind of Awesome

Computational Notebooks and MPW

October 2018

Jupyter Notebook in Nature

The Future of WebAssembly

FMJS Diary #1, Having Fun With Finalize

It's like @2x for Color

Brent Tells Us About Frontier

September 2018

Acorn 6.2 With Mojave Dark Mode Is Out

Shoutout to the Core Image Team

FMDB Ships in MacOS and iOS

Xcode Unit Testing Shortcuts

Is Mojave 10.14?

Writing a New JavaScript to Cocoa Bridge

NSNumber Discovery of the Day

Dark Aqua for Automator Actions

My Guitar Amp Broke

Carpets

Retrobatch 1.1 Is Out

I Have a Dilemma

I Think We're Already There

A Social Gus

Paige Claassen Sends Algorithm

Retrobatch 1.1fc

August 2018

The Twitter We Loved is Gone

I Need an Interactive Rubber Duck

A Little Brush Engine Debugging

Valley Uprising on Netflix

Free Solo Trailer

1bit Atkinson

Mojave Beta Mini Reviews

June 2018

Marzipan as a Path to ARM Based Macs

Quickly Swapping Between Regular and Dark Mode in 10.14 Mojave

A Pair of Updates

WhenWorks

512 Pixels on Dark Mode

May 2018

Retrobatch 1.0, and Moving Forward

Retrobatch Public Beta

April 2018

Rogue Amoeba has a fancy new Podcast Bundle

You Put Your Machine Learning in My Inpainting!

Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone

A Couple of Climbing Links

March 2018

10.13.4 is out with HEIC encoding

DragonFFI

120MP Ought to Be Enough for Anyone

Resistance Is Futile

PSA: Quick Look Plugins Are Multithreaded by Default

February 2018

Minimalism in Programming

Email Sucks

Acorn 6.1 Is Out

Random iPhone Issues

Allen Pike Chain of Fools

January 2018

Apple Platform SDK API Differences

Hello HEIF

Farrago

Either Insane or Brilliant

Moving to Metal Episode VII, Testing Time

Pixel Memory Layout between Core Graphics and Core Image / IOSurface

Moving to Metal Episode VI, I Broke Quartz Debug

December 2017

Moving to Metal Episode V, Weird Performance Hacks

Thoughts on Gurman's Report of a Single UI Experience Across iOS and MacOS

Colour Management by Marc Edwards

Moving to Metal Episode IV

Moving to Metal Episode III

Moving to Metal Episode II

VoodooPad Acquired by Primate Labs

Moving to Metal

November 2017

Acorn 6.0.4 beta

October 2017

Myself on Extra Intuition

The Shaper Origin

Know Why You Suck

Washington State Election Security

Waterproof Kindles

Twitterrific Is Back

Exponent

September 2017

What's Going on With HEIF and Mac OS 10.13

Acorn and 10.13

August 2017

Acorn 5 Updated

Acorn 6.0.2 is out, with 100% more German localization

July 2017

Acorn 6

June 2017

Acorn 6 Public Beta

New Acorn Plugins from Observatory

HEIF

SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem

A WWDC Review, 2017 Edition

Yours Truly on the Run Loop Podcast

What I'd like to see at WWDC, 2017 Edition

May 2017

Evergreen

Acorn Files and Spotlight

FMDB 2.7

First week of JSON Feed

How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So

Seattle in Mourning

I'm looking for some folks to test major new features in Acorn.

March 2017

Acorn 5.6.4 Released

February 2017

Brothers of Climbing

Piezo’s Life Outside The App Store

January 2017

Today you are an astronaut

Motion Graphics For The Web

A Wide Gamut Test Image From FM

Codesign Woes, January 2017 Edition

OMG I'd buy this

I have a micro blog now

I'm going to live forver.

Astropad Studio

Wide Color in Instagram

I'll Probably Be Climbing Till They Put Me in My Grave

Lode Runner in Your Browser

Indie Microblogging from Manton

Chuq on Apple in 2016

Project Vote

Happy New Year! Don't Forget I Have a Pizza Blog

December 2016

The First Tuesday After the First Monday

November 2016

Worms or Bust

It's OK to Copy Sometimes

Candy

Acorn 4.5.8 Released

Acorn 5.6 Preview With Touch Bar Support

Color Science from Pixar in a Box

TouchBarDemoApp

A Couple of Fun Weekend Reads

Notes on Working With the NSTouchBar APIs

October 2016

Danny MacAskill AMA

September 2016

Pixels and Voxels

August 2016

How to Tell if Your App Is Handling Colors Correctly

July 2016

macOS Goes Mushy

Acorn 5.5b2 Is Ready for Testing

Why Software Sucks

Three Random Articles

WebKit: Improving Color on the Web

June 2016

Random Thoughts on App Store Subscriptions for Acorn

Advanced Dictation Commands

WWDC 2016 Predictions

May 2016

Holy ****

Dynamic Swift

America is not a young land

Twenty Years Ago for Daniel

Koka's Beat Machine No. 2

April 2016

Help Sound Off Reach 3k for UIKonf

March 2016

Music Was a Mission, Not a Compeition

Some good ideas on how to reduce the cognitive load of your code

January 2016

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

Laying Out Text in a Circle in Acorn

Sound Off + AlterConf

December 2015

Creative Bloq on the Apple Pencil

November 2015

Acorn 5.2 Beta and Deep Color Support for the iMac 5k

The Hype is Real

October 2015

Mildly Subverting the Sandbox for Fun and Automator

MallocNanoZone=1 Makes for Hard Debugging

September 2015

A Pair of Acorn Releases Today

A Greek Tragedy

Contentless SQLite FTS4 Tables

August 2015

Debug Is Looking for Sponsorships

Acorn 5's Live Help Search

So Awesome, It's Nuts (Acorn 5 Is Out)

July 2015

Half Assed All Around

Manton Goes Full Time Indie

Coffee Coder - Blog Little Things

Pomax on digital colours and photography

Artist

Looking for Folks to Test the Next Big Version of Acorn

Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback

How to Save an Image Without a Color Space Using ImageIO

June 2015

If you decide to do this, we're gunna go heads up

May 2015

Preparation Trumps Optimism

The Phree, and More on iOS Styli

A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

Brent on How Not to Crash Part 2

Paul Kafasis on Feedback Driven Development

A Product Revenue Snapshot from Realmac

Layers Conference Scholarships Available for Women in Design

April 2015

Easier Than Fizz Buzz

March 2015

Replacing <# Your Favorite Image Editor #> With NSString

Efficient WebGL stroking

February 2015

Some New Apps from Friends

January 2015

Image kernels Explained Visually

Why Apple might make a stylus for the iPad

Microsoft, Apple, and Disappointment

Birds of Minnesota

"Preview" is damaged and can't be opened.

Acorn 4.5.3 for Direct Customers

December 2014

Cubic Bezier Curves Under the Hood

MacKeeper Fraud

I'm Sure It's a Great Language for Writting a Compiler

Fun With Math

Dropbox is Opening a Seattle Office

November 2014

The Life of a Pot Critic

A Little Bit More Kerning

Average the Back and Front Colors in Acorn

Kindle Voyage

My Number One Crasher is Currently from a Dropbox Extension on 10.10

VPiOS's New Icon

An Apple Office in Seattle?

NaNoDrawMo 2014

Future Acorn 4.5.2 Tricks

October 2014

Modulares Interface B.A.

PCalc and the App Store

Yosemite Adoption So Far

The Mishmash UI of Yosemite

BBEdit 11

The Keynote Shakes

Helftone: The Subtle Exodus

Brent on Bugs

Noodlings: The Long and Winding Road

The Art of Robert E. McGinnis

Huston, We Have A Problem

September 2014

David Owens on Swift

The Way of Kings for Free on iTunes

Whoosh, an Amazon SES Emailer

Full-Text Search with FMDB

The Wilderness

Don't Be Afraid of a Pencil

RIP Macworld

August 2014

Apple Should Open a Seattle Office

Redesigning an American Institution

objc.io on Testing

July 2014

Acorn 4.5, the Greatest Version of Acorn Ever

Being Indie in 2014

Acorn 4.5 beta

June 2014

Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

May 2014

Progress Report for 2014.05.15

March 2014

Progress Report for 2014.03.26

February 2014

Progress Report for 2014.02.25

Drawing as a programmer

Acorn 4.3 Beta and Progress Report for 2014.02.15

busblog and uber

Some New Episodes You Should Listen To This Weekend

Good Artists Copy

Red Bull Stratos and OS X Crash Reports

January 2014

Progress Report for 2014.01.27

Sunlit and Glassboard

Progress Report for 2014.01.15

A Mailing List for the Layered Image File Type

The Record

December 2013

State of the Meat 2013 Edition

So I Got My First DSLR

Glassboard Development Taken Over by Second Gear

The Seattle Sound

Why Acorn 4.2 Was Released Direct First, and a Bit About Linking Against SDK Versions

Acorn 4.2 - One for the Pros

November 2013

Blend Modes Explained

Acorn, Sixteen Bits Per Component, and You

A New Home for VoodooPad

October 2013

Andy Reitz on Apple TV and gaming

Core Values

Intelligence is not a Gift

Capo 3

September 2013

My Apple Wish List Late 2013 Edition

Creating a CIImageAccumulator Clone with IOSurface

Interview With Super Awesome Artist Brian Kesinger

August 2013

FMPSD and a Peek Into FM's Roadmap

June 2013

May 2013

What I'd Like to See at WWDC 2013

OmniPresence

How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right

Dissection of an Acorn 4 Launch

April 2013

Acorn 4

We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

Looking for Some Acorn Testers

March 2013

NSNorth Still Has Some Tickets Available

Reason No. 1 You Should be Sketching Every Day

Hypercritical: The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

Don’t get stuck

February 2013

The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play

Searchpath

iCloud vs. Dropbox and Files

Some Random Observations on VoodooPad, Acorn, MAS Sales, Direct Sales, and Customer Love Notes

Chris Sander's The Lost Boards

Brent Is Back

January 2013

NSNorth

Closest Point on a Curve to Another Point

Omni in 2013

One of My Favorite Apps: LaunchBar

December 2012

The Kennedy Center Honors 2012

27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012

Myself Interviewed by Federico Viticci

Acorn Plugin to Insert a Drafting Paper Layer

Using VoodooPad for fixme notes when programming

November 2012

Mike's Surf Bike

Myself on NSBrief

October 2012

The Seattle Stranger's Endorsements for the 2012 General Election

iCloud: Sharing done wrong

Wolf's Technote for OpenSSL on OS X

Quadratus

September 2012

Myself on iDeveloper Live Chatting About JSTalk

NYT: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical

RGB Colorspace Atlas

August 2012

Mike Ash Friday Q&A: Obtaining and Interpreting Image Data

Identical Cousins

VoodooPad 5.1 Released

SRV and Your Song of the Day

VoodooPad Navigation Plugins

Glassboard Premium

Future VoodooPad 5.1 Tricks- Static

Planetary Annihilation

My New Mac Pro

Processing.js 1.4

Pardon the Dust

July 2012

Neven Mrgan: The Mac App Store's future

An Unholy Goop

Acorn 3.3

RA: The Developer News Window

June 2012

Future Acorn 3.3 Tricks

Retina or Bust

There are Two Types of Relaxing for Indie Devs

Nice Mohawk

May 2012

Quick VoodooPad 5 Postmortem

April 2012

SkyDrive

VoodooPad 5.0 Released

Forbes: It's Time to End the Drug War

BBEdit Turns 20

Well That's Interesting

Manton on iCloud vs. the Web

Mueller Pizza Lab

Figure from Propellerhead is Awesome

Why Apple Is In China

Deliberatism: Forget Self-Improvement

March 2012

Harry Potter and the DRM-less ePub

Wil Shipley: The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades

Pushing Pixels: About those vector icons

Brent Simmons on Deflation and Introductory Pricing

Little M Update

Interview with Buzz Andersen

February 2012

FMDB 2.0

Etched effects in Acorn

Subtle UI Texture in Acorn

Recursive Blocks

Buzz Andersen: A Plea for Better iOS Text Facilities

January 2012

Seattle Times: Drunken sailor opens wrong door

Hibari and JSTalk

What Shipping Software and Newborns Have in Common

A Couple of Random Unrelated Thoughts on iBooks Author

Running a website with VoodooPad Pro

December 2011

State of the Meat 2011 Edition

Gitbox is 1 year old

New App from Rogue Amoeba - Piezo

November 2011

In Defense of the Stylus

Deconstructing and Putting Back Together Some Icons in Acorn

Little Icons and Acorn 3.2 Submitted

Acorn 3.2 Betas

Tom Green on Flash to HTML5

A Primer on Bezier Curves

Wil Shipley on Sandboxing

October 2011

NaNoDrawMo 2011

What will future generations condemn us for?

Printing Out Bezier Code

A Brief History of Mathematics

Kickingbear: The 90 Percenters

SPJ

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, or How the Scientific Process Always Wins

September 2011

Beware of Versions and Autosave in 10.7

Kickingbear: Penned

Acorn 3.1 Beta - 10.7 Goodies

Inessential: The part of Xcode 4 that tires me out

August 2011

FMDB Google Group

Dart

XPCKit

Flying Meat T-Shirts Available Again

Once More With the Histogram

Glassboard

Drawing a Histogram with Core Image

10.7's Zeroing Weak Refs

John Mayer on Twitter

Instaview

July 2011

Stupid productutil Tricks

Interviewed on The Setup

Boolean Operations on Bezier Paths

Airfoil 4.5

Push, Dropbox, Async, and Indie Sockets

June 2011

Electrolux Design Lab

MacBook Air as a Portable Home

Roll With It

NetNewsWire acquired by Black Pixel

May 2011

Regarding Objective-C & Copland 2010

Who is Acorn for?

Fantastical

An Open Letter to Team17

Sandvox 2

On eBook Pricing

April 2011

A Vector Popover in Acorn

PhobosLab: iOS and JavaScript

Regarding Simplicity

Some Acorn Scripts for iOS Designers

Fancy Submit Button Tutorial

Making a Fancy Submit Button in Acorn

Acorn 3 Latest Builds

Acorn 3 Launch and Tidbits

Easy Alarms

Matt Smith's Graceland Project

DTerm

Super Big Desktop Picture

March 2011

Voices That Matter: Seattle Edition

Borkware's First-Timer's Guide To WWDC

Capo 2.1 is out

Panic: Let's Help Japan

Inessential: A plea for baked weblogs

Slow Company

Automated Testing with Undo

Salman Khan at TED

moviebarcode

NetNewsWire Lite 4.0

February 2011

FlySketch on Sale for 4.99 in the MAS

Acorn 2.6.4 is up in the App Store

How to Get Rejected from the Mac App Store

January 2011

The Complete Friday Q&A by Mike Ash

Nick Bradbury: Some Customers Suck

Quiksilver All 80's All Day Vert Challenge

BusyToDo

Various Reactions to the App Store

A Neat Twitter Trick

December 2010

Hackulous and the Mac App Store

The Indie Mac Gift Pack

Back to 1.0, or VoodooPad for iOS Now Available

Customizing Links in an NSTextView

November 2010

JSTalk Happenings

The Episode Where Paul Kafasis Tries to Kill Himself

Flying Meat T-Shirts

October 2010

Icons in iMove and iPhoto 11

That Mac App Store Thing

September 2010

Mark Dalrymple: Stay Out Of Apple's Namespace

Strange Loop Conference

VoodooPad 4.3b2

Acorn 2.5 Released

Acorn 2.5b1

August 2010

Prototyping UI Elements with JSTalk

July 2010

Making a Color Wheel in Core Image

Acorn 2.3.2b1

DefCon Ninja Party Badge

Automated Testing With JSTalk

Fancy, Your Pants Are: Star Wars Gentlemen

Super Mario Bros. Projection

Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X

June 2010

NoMoreiTunes Safari Extension

VoodooPad for iPad Update

May 2010

Towards a better BBCode

JSNES

MarsEdit 3 Is Here

April 2010

Acorn 2.3 is out and what FM is doing next

Flash-like games in JS with scripty2

Why Tony Stark is better than you

Free App Ideas from Gus, Episode 1

Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff

Ultima V on TI

Brent on being a nice person who sells software

FogBugz Reply Bookmarklet

Sun's path June to December

Cocoatoa: Private API is the Wrong Question

March 2010

RogueSheep: Acorn and JSTalk

How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App

Jesse Grosjean's Pizza Post

Acorn on Your Mac Life

February 2010

U.S. Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition

Brent Simmons: On switching away from Core Data

Seattle iPhone Conf- Voices That Matter

January 2010

Marc Cuban: A Simple Policy Guide for Job Growth

Chris Sanders Original Art

Acorn 2.2

Unison 2.0

Today 2.0

Using the Latest LLVM with Xcode

December 2009

Anthony Mangieri on Pizza

Two Stories from HN

Web Sockets in Google Chrome

Modernizing the Responder Chain

XML Generation for Cocoa

New Apps from RogueSheep

A contract of constraints

Shorty Pencil Hack of the Day

Just Shoot Me in the Head

Zero to Pizza in 80 Seconds

The Importance of Blogging

Bad Code Offsets

Stunt Software Gets a Shiny New Website

NPR Stories on Marijuana in California

Bookarc

A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars

November 2009

MarsEdit 2.4

Mixing Blocks and Cursor Rects

JetPens

New site for the blog (From GMDC)

You'll never get what you want

deviantART Acorn Type Controls (From GMDC)

Everything Has a Shape

JLNDragEffectManager (From GMDC)

Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned (From GMDC)

The only 2 fixes for the iPhone platform (From GMDC)

Swimming in OpenCL (From GMDC)

October 2009

NaNoDrawMo (From GMDC)

Lost in Translations (From GMDC)

Acorn 2.1 is out (From GMDC)

TapLynx (From GMDC)

Custom Data Types in VoodooPad (From GMDC)

How to Write Your Own Automated Testing Framework (From GMDC)

AppleScript support in Acorn 2.1 (From GMDC)

September 2009

NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone (From GMDC)

Painter RIFF Importer for Acorn (From GMDC)

A couple of neat Acorn tricks (From GMDC)

Manton Reece: It's okay to ignore the iPhone (From GMDC)

An Acorn Tutorial Using a Duck (From GMDC)

Acorn 2 (From GMDC)

Scriptidy Script Script (From GMDC)

Some New Widgets (From GMDC)

A Handy Little Preference (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 4.2 (From GMDC)

You've Got to Eventually Organize Stuff (From GMDC)

Outside the Box (From GMDC)

64 (From GMDC)

The Anatomy of Determination (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 4.2 Beta (From GMDC)

How I Do Beta Testing (Plus Info on a Private Acorn Beta) (From GMDC)

August 2009

Big Companies (From GMDC)

Go without food (From GMDC)

Setting the Right Priorities (From GMDC)

July 2009

BusyCal Beta (From GMDC)

Tinkerbuilt Vehicle Logbook (From GMDC)

Certificate in iPhone and Cocoa Dev from UW (From GMDC)

Macworld reviews VoodooPad Pro (From GMDC)

June 2009

FastScripts (From GMDC)

JSTalk and WWDC (From GMDC)

May 2009

Aaron Hillegass on the Text System (From GMDC)

Integrating Help in your application using VoodooPad (From GMDC)

Postage for the iPhone (From GMDC)

Clipstart (From GMDC)

April 2009

Geosmin (From GMDC)

In Defense of Eye Candy (From GMDC)

Glenn Greenwald on Drug Decriminalization in Portugal (From GMDC)

BackBlaze for Mac (From GMDC)

Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (From GMDC)

JavaScript for C & Python programmers (From GMDC)

Capo Beta (From GMDC)

March 2009

Developer Notebooks (From GMDC)

JSTalk Extras (From GMDC)

Introducing JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript (From GMDC)

Acorn is in MacHeist (From GMDC)

MarsEdit 2.3 is out (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 4.1 and VP Reader for iPhone Released (From GMDC)

February 2009

Italian Food and Woodworking (From GMDC)

January 2009

Brent's new publishing system (From GMDC)

Test Preview Page (From GMDC)

JSCocoa and Acorn Plugins in JavaScript (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.5 (From GMDC)

Say Hello To Pulsar! (From GMDC)

International Year of Astronomy (From GMDC)

Banksy Tours in Bethlehem (From GMDC)

December 2008

Acorn 1.5 Beta (From GMDC)

The App Store Effect (From GMDC)

Mike Ash on ObjC Blocks (From GMDC)

DC Web Stencil Kit (From GMDC)

What have you tried? (From GMDC)

Python 3.0 (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 4.0.2 (From GMDC)

The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing (From GMDC)

Inside RogueSheep: Pixel Bending (From GMDC)

Don't use NSOperationQueue (From GMDC)

November 2008

How VoodooPad does its syncing (From GMDC)

Can the can (From GMDC)

Brent's Advice for indies (From GMDC)

How I use VoodooPad (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 4 is out (From GMDC)

JSCocoaCodaLoader (From GMDC)

Semi-Private VoodooPad 4 Beta (From GMDC)

October 2008

Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro review (From GMDC)

FMDB and FMWebDAVRequest updates (From GMDC)

MicroISV/Startup Bootcamp (From GMDC)

Acorn free for registered DrawIt 3 users (From GMDC)

September 2008

Ceramic Notepad (From GMDC)

SousChef (From GMDC)

What I did on my summer vacation (From GMDC)

Vacation time wooooooo! (From GMDC)

Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality (From GMDC)

Air Sharing (From GMDC)

Happy Birthday Acorn (From GMDC)

Fraser and Casey on C4[2] (From GMDC)

Mike Ash on lockless thread-safe data structures (From GMDC)

Microprints from Jorge Ortiz (From GMDC)

FMDB Migration Manager (From GMDC)

Cappuccino Web Framework (From GMDC)

My favorite iPhone app so far (From GMDC)

WebKitDebugFullPageZoomPreferenceKey (From GMDC)

August 2008

SRV (From GMDC)

BBEdit 9 (From GMDC)

Ruby Plugins and Direct Filter Manipulation Acorn (From GMDC)

Full Disclosure and the Boston Farecard Hack (From GMDC)

Justin Williams on being indie (From GMDC)

Banksy on Wikiquote (From GMDC)

Scott Campbell (From GMDC)

How to draw anything (From GMDC)

Yahoo(!!!!!!) Widget Channel (From GMDC)

Did Ya Know? (From GMDC)

Walt Disney Animation Studios (From GMDC)

MacSB Year 1, Episode 2: The Story Continues (From GMDC)

VMWare and OS X, sitting in a tree (From GMDC)

July 2008

Indie Fever (From GMDC)

Lucky to be a Programmer (From GMDC)

Software Pricing on Mac Software Business Podcast (From GMDC)

Copy Width and Height for Acorn (From GMDC)

The Daydream Blog: Unlearning Cocoa (From GMDC)

Lost Jimi Hendrix Album Discovered (From GMDC)

Google Protobufs (From GMDC)

Ira Glass on Working Through the Suck (From GMDC)

Writing vs. Typing (From GMDC)

Adobe Reader 9 is out! (From GMDC)

June 2008

Another snipit of code at launch (From GMDC)

P.S. Comments are off temporarily (From GMDC)

Development Phase Code Signing (From GMDC)

Special Effects with Acorn Part 1: The Product Fade Effect (From GMDC)

Thinking Like a Cocoa Programmer (From GMDC)

Jet City Rollergirls Championship Bout (From GMDC)

What is good tequila? (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.2.1b1 (From GMDC)

Red Sweater: Pixels Are Hot (From GMDC)

2008 PMC Software Auctions (From GMDC)

Music for a Rainy Seattle Day (From GMDC)

Core Intuition (From GMDC)

New Home for FMDB (From GMDC)

May 2008

Acorn Plugin: Make Dock Icon (From GMDC)

BLIP (From GMDC)

The Road to TapeDeck 1.0 (From GMDC)

Airfoil 3.2 (From GMDC)

A snip of code I'm sure someone will tear apart for me (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.2 (From GMDC)

TapeDeck 1.0 (From GMDC)

Gus Mueller on MacVoices (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.2b1 (From GMDC)

Newspaper Blackout Poems (From GMDC)

April 2008

A plea to web developers- follow FFFFOUND's lead (From GMDC)

Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (From GMDC)

RogueSheep is hiring (From GMDC)

Second Gear releases Today (From GMDC)

penguin (From GMDC)

VoodooPhone (From GMDC)

A Protected Night Sky Over Flagstaff (From GMDC)

MudLog (From GMDC)

Old Skooling in Acorn (From GMDC)

Mac Software Business: Year One (Podcast) (From GMDC)

11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft (From GMDC)

March 2008

VoodooPad Bookmarklets (From GMDC)

Piracy & PC Gaming (From GMDC)

Daring Fireball 2008 Membership Drive (From GMDC)

Some New Acorn Plugins (From GMDC)

RA: Code Signing and You (From GMDC)

FMDB for iPhone (From GMDC)

Shawn Blanc Interviews Daniel Jalkut (From GMDC)

February 2008

New Software (From GMDC)

Toxic Software's AcornImage (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.1b1 (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.5 (From GMDC)

Only y-coordinates are 1-based (From GMDC)

Pet Sheep (From GMDC)

My Favorite CARS moment (From GMDC)

January 2008

MarkD on Late Night Cocoa (From GMDC)

Software Updates from MarsEdit and LicenseKeeper (From GMDC)

Reason Number 12 Apple Help in Leopard Sucks (From GMDC)

Flying Meat++ (From GMDC)

Liscio gone indie (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.5b2 (From GMDC)

Links (From GMDC)

Requiem for a rendering engine (From GMDC)

Airfoil 3 is Out (From GMDC)

NetNewsWire Set Free (From GMDC)

CocoaDev Forums (From GMDC)

iCab 4.0 (From GMDC)

December 2007

Two Little Tidbits (From GMDC)

Atomic Wang: So I Wrote This Book (From GMDC)

Borkware: C Callbacks in ObjC (From GMDC)

Theocacao: A Look at the Acorn Image Editor (From GMDC)

MarsEdit wins an Eddy (From GMDC)

Run Python Script (From GMDC)

Acorn Trim Scripts (From GMDC)

GTD with VDP (From GMDC)

MacSanta 2007 (From GMDC)

November 2007

10th Anniversary of GMPokey (From GMDC)

Panic's CandyBar 3 is out (From GMDC)

Holiday Cooking Tips From Gus (From GMDC)

FuzzMeasure 3 is out (From GMDC)

IronCoder7 (From GMDC)

VoodooPad and Acorn version bumps (From GMDC)

Dave MacLeod and the dark art of Rhapsody (From GMDC)

Fraser Speirs- On Location (From GMDC)

Ironcoder 7 (From GMDC)

October 2007

Image Is Everything (From GMDC)

Favorite Leopard Features (From GMDC)

Flying Meat and Leopard (From GMDC)

Lessons about failure (From GMDC)

Five Years for Atomic Bird (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.2.2b1 (From GMDC)

Acorn ImageIO Plugin (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.0.2 (From GMDC)

Masking Plugins for Acorn (From GMDC)

September 2007

Borkware: Don't Forget VoodooPad (From GMDC)

Seth Dillinghams' First Core Image Filter (From GMDC)

BusyMac's BusySync (From GMDC)

Wii Transfer 2.5 (From GMDC)

I need a screencasting app (From GMDC)

Acorn scripting using Python (From GMDC)

The Intersection of Cool and Awesome (From GMDC)

License Screens (From GMDC)

Radioshift 1.0 is released into the wild (From GMDC)

VoodooPad and Acorn updated (From GMDC)

Acorn dev builds and stuff (From GMDC)

iPhone and mailto urls (From GMDC)

The Pan-Mass Auction is almost over (From GMDC)

Making Ringtones (From GMDC)

TUAW: Gus Mueller on Acorn (From GMDC)

Random Acorn Thoughts (From GMDC)

Acorn Plugins (From GMDC)

Acorn 1.0 (From GMDC)

Starting up the Hype Machine (From GMDC)

OpenGLCaptureToMovie (From GMDC)

MarsEdit 2 is out (From GMDC)

August 2007

T-Shirt update (From GMDC)

Veerle: What I learned from starting my own business (From GMDC)

Keepon (From GMDC)

Quick Little Illustrator Tip (From GMDC)

Shawn Blanc: The Brent Simmons Interview (From GMDC)

Getting Things Done in VoodooPad (From GMDC)

Objective-C is Stupid (but I still like it) (From GMDC)

As seen on twitter (From GMDC)

How to implement a basic bitmap brush (From GMDC)

Seth's Pan-Mass CDs are up (From GMDC)

A List Apart: Staying Motivated (From GMDC)

Post C4 Post (From GMDC)

Hazel- Post Mortem 2.0 (From GMDC)

BBEdit 8.7 (From GMDC)

July 2007

FogBugz (From GMDC)

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo (From GMDC)

Python Plugin for VoodooPad Updated (From GMDC)

PodWorks 2.9 is out (From GMDC)

Multi-touch on the desktop (From GMDC)

A Peek At MarsEdit 2 (From GMDC)

Proxi shortcut icons (From GMDC)

FlyGesture is Merlin's Pick of the Week on MBW (From GMDC)

MacTalk Q&A with Andy Kim from Potion Factory (From GMDC)

The HIG still matters (From GMDC)

The Rise Of The OS (From GMDC)

If you love something set it free (From GMDC)

June 2007

11 to go (From GMDC)

Potion Store (From GMDC)

Late Night Cocoa WWDC Episode (From GMDC)

CocoaHeads Audio (From GMDC)

WWDC2007POST (From GMDC)

Bang Bang Bang! (From GMDC)

The read-once email client and reference emails (From GMDC)

WWDC Theme Song (From GMDC)

Buzz Andersen's 4th Annual WWDC Party (From GMDC)

Need a WWDC Ticket? (From GMDC)

MacTech 25 (From GMDC)

Adobe Reader 8.1 is out! (From GMDC)

NetNewsWire 3 is out (From GMDC)

MarsEdit 1.2 is out (From GMDC)

FlySketch 1.6.3 released as well (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.2 is released (From GMDC)

PMC Software Auctions (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.2b4 (From GMDC)

May 2007

From Tennessean to Cocoa Programmer in 3 easy steps! (From GMDC)

VoodooPad's File Format (From GMDC)

The Golden Compass (From GMDC)

Adobe, please stop the insanity (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.2b2 (From GMDC)

One year as an indie Mac developer (From GMDC)

C4[1] Registration is Open (From GMDC)

MY HAT! (From GMDC)

Daniel is getting married today! (From GMDC)

April 2007

Fission 1.5 (From GMDC)

Coda (From GMDC)

Gone Rogue (From GMDC)

Scott Adams on Judging Art (From GMDC)

Buzz and Panic (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1.5 Released (From GMDC)

As seen on irc (From GMDC)

meh (From GMDC)

svnmark (From GMDC)

This is the sound of me hyperventilating (From GMDC)

viii (From GMDC)

View document and save as PDF plugin for VoodooPad (From GMDC)

Noodlings on Automated Builds (From GMDC)

Ironcoder V Wrapup (From GMDC)

Skim (From GMDC)

VoodooBaby (From GMDC)

March 2007

Me on Late Night Cocoa (From GMDC)

A script for text placeholders in VoodooPad (From GMDC)

IronCoder is this weekend (From GMDC)

Daring Fireball 2007 Membership Drive (From GMDC)

It wasn't me! (From GMDC)

Black Ink (From GMDC)

Nick Bradbury's Indie Tips (From GMDC)

Brandstudio Press (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1.4 released (From GMDC)

Adobe edits the development cycle (From GMDC)

Cocoa Shaders (From GMDC)

February 2007

Ironcoder V (From GMDC)

Experiences In Web Hosting (From GMDC)

MarsEdit 1.1.3 (From GMDC)

a dream within a dream (From GMDC)

Interview with Paul Kim on Ars (From GMDC)

Red Sweater Acquires MarsEdit (From GMDC)

Roller Derby is Supertastic (From GMDC)

Ridiculous Fish: Barrier (From GMDC)

Carpeaqua: How do you develop software? (From GMDC)

NetNewsWire 3 Sneak Peak (From GMDC)

Daniel Jalkut on macsb (From GMDC)

VoodooPad in MacBreak Weekly (From GMDC)

Wolf: Programmers Don't Like to Code (From GMDC)

Adium 1.0 Ships (From GMDC)

Paul Kafasis Interview at Infinite Loop (From GMDC)

Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton (From GMDC)

January 2007

SubEthaEdit 2.6 (From GMDC)

No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco (From GMDC)

Manton Reece on using VoodooPad for help files (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1.3 Released (From GMDC)

InstantGallery 1.7 (From GMDC)

VoodooPad PHP Plugin (From GMDC)

Postmortems FTW (From GMDC)

Duncan Davidson on Java on the iPhone (From GMDC)

Dori Smith for Apple's Dashboard Evangelist (From GMDC)

Random Links for Jan 16 (From GMDC)

They Grow Up So Fast (From GMDC)

The After Macworld Post (From GMDC)

MWSF07_Eve (From GMDC)

Sofa Control 2 (From GMDC)

eWeek: Mac OS X Developers Watch Month of Apple Bugs (From GMDC)

The life and drama of a Mac shareware developer (From GMDC)

Leopard-Only and Post Mortem (From GMDC)

Ouch (From GMDC)

Chinese Democracy Syndrome (From GMDC)

2007 (From GMDC)

December 2006

Unless you're a guitar player, this post won't mean much to you. (From GMDC)

More Random Stuff (From GMDC)

MacSanta (From GMDC)

Matt Gemmell Goes Indie in 2007 (From GMDC)

Cocoa Duel (From GMDC)

NewsLife 1.0 beta (From GMDC)

Luis takes the plunge (From GMDC)

VoodooPad Pro 5 stars in Macworld UK (From GMDC)

Randomness and clarity (From GMDC)

Week of the Independent Mac Developer (From GMDC)

Tangerine is out (From GMDC)

Child's Play FM Total (From GMDC)

Child's Play Day (From GMDC)

Fuzz on Apple.com (From GMDC)

What's your favorite image editing feature (From GMDC)

Burger King - Off with his head! (From GMDC)

November 2006

LifeBoat (From GMDC)

Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix (From GMDC)

Insanely Great Tees (From GMDC)

HexFiend (From GMDC)

Pinprick (From GMDC)

Son, don't repeat the same mistakes I made (From GMDC)

Scary Programmer (From GMDC)

Kuler (From GMDC)

The Entrepreneurial Pendulum (From GMDC)

Five-second rule (From GMDC)

Nov 11 dinner (From GMDC)

Flooding and Snow (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1.2 (From GMDC)

All together now (From GMDC)

CocoaDev Job Board (From GMDC)

How the Disco icon was made (From GMDC)

CSSEdit 2 (From GMDC)

RA: The Delicious Generation (From GMDC)

Scott Adams on Steve Bing (From GMDC)

Cocoa Graphics with Quartz (From GMDC)

FlexTime 1.1 (From GMDC)

LuaCore (From GMDC)

Disco (From GMDC)

October 2006

Two Stupid Dogs (From GMDC)

Vacation (From GMDC)

EagleFiler (From GMDC)

Overflow from Stunt Software (From GMDC)

Random Post for Oct 2006 (From GMDC)

Clip Show (From GMDC)

API Fight (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1.1 (From GMDC)

September 2006

Musing from Mars FlySketch Review (From GMDC)

Billable (From GMDC)

Aperture Export Plugins (From GMDC)

Pomcast (From GMDC)

My Dream App Voting (From GMDC)

Fission (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1 is released (From GMDC)

United States of Wii (From GMDC)

Microwave Propulsion (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1b3 (From GMDC)

The Road Less Traveled (From GMDC)

iTunes 7 (From GMDC)

Andrew Liscio (From GMDC)

Christians attack hominids in Kenya museum (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.1b2 (From GMDC)

C4: Chicago Mac Developer Conference (From GMDC)

August 2006

Clues to Objective-C 2.0 (From GMDC)

Evan Williams: 16 Assertions (From GMDC)

Derek Trucks Band (From GMDC)

The Decline of WWDC (From GMDC)

Pear Tree (From GMDC)

MondoMouse (From GMDC)

Jeff Johnston climbed the Grand Teton (From GMDC)

NetNewsWire Send to VoodooPad (From GMDC)

Congrats to Chris Liscio (From GMDC)

AppleScript isn't that bad (From GMDC)

FlexTime 1.0 (From GMDC)

Rough edges on the new blog (From GMDC)

Say Hello To Porchlight (From GMDC)

VoodooPad 3.0.2 Released (From GMDC)

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