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December 2024
November 2024
Apple Ads, Trust, Privacy, and a Premium Experience
September 2024
My iPhone Battery Life After a Year at 80% Charge Limit
August 2024
July 2024
May 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
November 2023
October 2023
Five Watt World on Fender Japan
Stu Maschwitz on ProRes Log Video Recording With iPhone 15 Pro
January 2023
September 2022
The Chouinard Family Restructures Patagonia to Help Flight Climate Change
This Is Why I'll Be Getting an Apple Watch Ultra (Eventually)
July 2022
June 2022
December 2021
October 2021
September 2021
Ben Thompson on Apple's App Store Conundrum
April 2021
March 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
The Pursuit of Tone: Buddy Guy
Older Versions of Acorn and Big Sur
How to Create a Bootable Installer for MacOS
Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac
Apple App Store Small Business Program
Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete
July 2020
June 2020
Germany’s Corona-Warn-App uses FMDB
More Mac and WWDC 2020 Thoughts
Wil Shipley on the State of the App Store
April 2020
Retina Screenshots, Acorn, DPI, and Keynote
Gurman Says ARM Macs Are Coming
Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"
The Amazing Short Guitar Sounds of Kortney Sweikert on Instagram
March 2020
MacOS 10.15.4 NSAttributedString Creation Changes
Using Retrobatch to Watch My Seeds Grow
January 2020
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
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
November 2019
A Couple More Posts Added to the Archives
One More Birthday Till the Legal Drinking Begins
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
September 2019
The New York Times on Blues Guitarist Robert Johnson
Photos From Our New Climbing Gym- Vertical World North
Camera and Image Processing Positions at Apple
August 2019
July 2019
What to Do When You See Something Sketchy at the Climbing Gym
June 2019
Apple Is Opening a 2k Person Engineering Office in Seattle
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
January 2019
October 2018
September 2018
Acorn 6.2 With Mojave Dark Mode Is Out
Shoutout to the Core Image Team
Writing a New JavaScript to Cocoa Bridge
Dark Aqua for Automator Actions
June 2018
Marzipan as a Path to ARM Based Macs
Quickly Swapping Between Regular and Dark Mode in 10.14 Mojave
April 2018
Rogue Amoeba has a fancy new Podcast Bundle
You Put Your Machine Learning in My Inpainting!
February 2018
January 2018
Apple Platform SDK API Differences
Moving to Metal Episode VII, Testing Time
Pixel Memory Layout between Core Graphics and Core Image / IOSurface
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
November 2017
October 2017
July 2017
June 2017
New Acorn Plugins from Observatory
SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem
May 2017
How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So
I'm looking for some folks to test major new features in Acorn.
March 2017
January 2017
A Wide Gamut Test Image From FM
Codesign Woes, January 2017 Edition
I'll Probably Be Climbing Till They Put Me in My Grave
December 2016
October 2016
September 2016
July 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
Music Was a Mission, Not a Compeition
Some good ideas on how to reduce the cognitive load of your code
December 2015
October 2015
August 2015
July 2015
Coffee Coder - Blog Little Things
Pomax on digital colours and photography
Looking for Folks to Test the Next Big Version of Acorn
May 2015
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
February 2015
January 2015
Image kernels Explained Visually
Why Apple might make a stylus for the iPad
Microsoft, Apple, and Disappointment
December 2014
Cubic Bezier Curves Under the Hood
November 2014
Average the Back and Front Colors in Acorn
My Number One Crasher is Currently from a Dropbox Extension on 10.10
October 2014
September 2014
June 2014
May 2014
March 2014
February 2014
Progress Report for 2014.02.25
Acorn 4.3 Beta and Progress Report for 2014.02.15
January 2014
Progress Report for 2014.01.27
Progress Report for 2014.01.15
December 2013
State of the Meat 2013 Edition
Glassboard Development Taken Over by Second Gear
Why Acorn 4.2 Was Released Direct First, and a Bit About Linking Against SDK Versions
November 2013
September 2013
My Apple Wish List Late 2013 Edition
August 2013
March 2013
NSNorth Still Has Some Tickets Available
Reason No. 1 You Should be Sketching Every Day
February 2013
The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play
Some Random Observations on VoodooPad, Acorn, MAS Sales, Direct Sales, and Customer Love Notes
January 2013
December 2012
The Kennedy Center Honors 2012
27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012
Myself Interviewed by Federico Viticci
October 2012
The Seattle Stranger's Endorsements for the 2012 General Election
September 2012
Myself on iDeveloper Live Chatting About JSTalk
August 2012
Mike Ash Friday Q&A: Obtaining and Interpreting Image Data
July 2012
May 2012
March 2012
Harry Potter and the DRM-less ePub
Wil Shipley: The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
Pushing Pixels: About those vector icons
February 2012
January 2012
Seattle Times: Drunken sailor opens wrong door
What Shipping Software and Newborns Have in Common
November 2011
Deconstructing and Putting Back Together Some Icons in Acorn
October 2011
What will future generations condemn us for?
A Brief History of Mathematics
Kickingbear: The 90 Percenters
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, or How the Scientific Process Always Wins
September 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
Some Acorn Scripts for iOS Designers
Making a Fancy Submit Button in Acorn
March 2011
Voices That Matter: Seattle Edition
Borkware's First-Timer's Guide To WWDC
January 2011
The Complete Friday Q&A by Mike Ash
Nick Bradbury: Some Customers Suck
Quiksilver All 80's All Day Vert Challenge
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
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
March 2010
February 2010
U.S. Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition
December 2009
Modernizing the Responder Chain
Stunt Software Gets a Shiny New Website
November 2009
Mixing Blocks and Cursor Rects
New site for the blog (From GMDC)
You'll never get what you want
deviantART Acorn Type Controls (From GMDC)
JLNDragEffectManager (From GMDC)
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned (From GMDC)
October 2009
Lost in Translations (From GMDC)
Custom Data Types in VoodooPad (From GMDC)
How to Write Your Own Automated Testing Framework (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)
Scriptidy Script Script (From GMDC)
A Handy Little Preference (From GMDC)
You've Got to Eventually Organize Stuff (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
July 2009
Tinkerbuilt Vehicle Logbook (From GMDC)
May 2009
Aaron Hillegass on the Text System (From GMDC)
Integrating Help in your application using VoodooPad (From GMDC)
April 2009
In Defense of Eye Candy (From GMDC)
Glenn Greenwald on Drug Decriminalization in Portugal (From GMDC)
Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (From GMDC)
March 2009
Developer Notebooks (From GMDC)
Introducing JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript (From GMDC)
Acorn is in MacHeist (From GMDC)
February 2009
January 2009
Brent's new publishing system (From GMDC)
JSCocoa and Acorn Plugins in JavaScript (From GMDC)
Say Hello To Pulsar! (From GMDC)
December 2008
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)
The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing (From GMDC)
November 2008
How VoodooPad does its syncing (From GMDC)
Brent's Advice for indies (From GMDC)
How I use VoodooPad (From GMDC)
October 2008
Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro review (From GMDC)
FMDB and FMWebDAVRequest updates (From GMDC)
September 2008
What I did on my summer vacation (From GMDC)
Vacation time wooooooo! (From GMDC)
Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality (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)
August 2008
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)
How to draw anything (From GMDC)
Yahoo(!!!!!!) Widget Channel (From GMDC)
Walt Disney Animation Studios (From GMDC)
July 2008
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)
Ira Glass on Working Through the Suck (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)
Red Sweater: Pixels Are Hot (From GMDC)
2008 PMC Software Auctions (From GMDC)
May 2008
Acorn Plugin: Make Dock Icon (From GMDC)
The Road to TapeDeck 1.0 (From GMDC)
A snip of code I'm sure someone will tear apart for me (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)
A Protected Night Sky Over Flagstaff (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)
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)
Requiem for a rendering engine (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)
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)
VoodooPad and Acorn version bumps (From GMDC)
Dave MacLeod and the dark art of Rhapsody (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)
September 2007
Borkware: Don't Forget VoodooPad (From GMDC)
Seth Dillinghams' First Core Image Filter (From GMDC)
BusyMac's BusySync (From GMDC)
I need a screencasting app (From GMDC)
Acorn scripting using Python (From GMDC)
The Intersection of Cool and Awesome (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)
TUAW: Gus Mueller on Acorn (From GMDC)
Random Acorn Thoughts (From GMDC)
Starting up the Hype Machine (From GMDC)
August 2007
Veerle: What I learned from starting my own business (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)
July 2007
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)
June 2007
Late Night Cocoa WWDC Episode (From GMDC)
The read-once email client and reference emails (From GMDC)
Buzz Andersen's 4th Annual WWDC Party (From GMDC)
Need a WWDC Ticket? (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)
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)
One year as an indie Mac developer (From GMDC)
April 2007
Scott Adams on Judging Art (From GMDC)
VoodooPad 3.1.5 Released (From GMDC)
This is the sound of me hyperventilating (From GMDC)
View document and save as PDF plugin for VoodooPad (From GMDC)
Noodlings on Automated Builds (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)
Nick Bradbury's Indie Tips (From GMDC)
VoodooPad 3.1.4 released (From GMDC)
February 2007
Experiences In Web Hosting (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)
Paul Kafasis Interview at Infinite Loop (From GMDC)
Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton (From GMDC)
January 2007
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)
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)
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)
December 2006
Unless you're a guitar player, this post won't mean much to you. (From GMDC)
Matt Gemmell Goes Indie in 2007 (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)
Child's Play FM Total (From GMDC)
November 2006
Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix (From GMDC)
Insanely Great Tees (From GMDC)
Son, don't repeat the same mistakes I made (From GMDC)
The Entrepreneurial Pendulum (From GMDC)
CocoaDev Job Board (From GMDC)
How the Disco icon was made (From GMDC)
RA: The Delicious Generation (From GMDC)
Scott Adams on Steve Bing (From GMDC)
September 2006
Musing from Mars FlySketch Review (From GMDC)
Aperture Export Plugins (From GMDC)
My Dream App Voting (From GMDC)
VoodooPad 3.1 is released (From GMDC)
United States of Wii (From GMDC)
Microwave Propulsion (From GMDC)
The Road Less Traveled (From GMDC)
August 2006
Clues to Objective-C 2.0 (From GMDC)
Evan Williams: 16 Assertions (From GMDC)
The Decline of WWDC (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)
Rough edges on the new blog (From GMDC)
Say Hello To Porchlight (From GMDC)
July 2006
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