A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I have a quirk of typing what most people wouldn't think type-able. My wife was once going to be the stateside representative of a Bei...

I had to pull Signal GH from the App Store two days ago because  mach_absolute_time  which is based on CPU clock cycles returns quite diffe...

I've been using Macs pretty much exclusively since I walked into the computer lab at International Falls Senior High and saw one in 1984...

I encounter a bug in Swift 3 I had this cool idea to enhance CGPath, create an extension which would add a convenience init method that wo...

Back in late February, I was a bit miffed to hear that the JBL Legend CP100 CarPlay receiver was going to be released while I was visiting ...

I spent a very long time thinking that I could somehow not put a UINavigationController in a container view (despite having done so before) ...

Recently, I've had two passions in my life as a consumer. I've been dreaming of finally moving on from my 2003 Honda Civic, and buyi...

So, one day, out of the blue, I could not open the little hatch to get gas into my 2003 Honda Civic. Going online, I found this is a fairly ...

I decided to release as open source (MIT license) my collection of Objective-C classes that can parse out the schedule information from ATSC...

Yesterday, my former coworker Alan Gorman died of cancer at 51. Alan and I were hired a month apart at the then CambridgeSoft to work on...

For many years, I've been a happy member of Amazon Vine, taking frequent deliveries of random consumer items for review and then keeping...

Had a pleasant time at WWDC. As is my habit, I spent most of my time in the labs going over every issue I had that had vexed me. One of the ...

Here is a screen capture of my app TV Towers USA  as it looked in the iOS App Store on May 2, 2015: May 2, 2015 (or so) And here is wh...

About a year and a half ago, I left myself a Reminder on my iPhone to make an educational video about creating path elements in SVG documen...

At every Mac hardware launch event, Phil Shiller will go through the features of the latest/greatest and towards the end will bring up the E...

I'm trying to find customers for my Chemistry Keyboard  extension for iOS 8, so I've been doing things like searching for questions ...

To learn a computer language, you have to write something in that language, just reading the book doesn't help much. So when Swift was...

Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week. I had been waiting for the news as my current situation leads me to program at my desk 95% of the...

Last week, I recorded an episode of . Net Rocks  about what it's like learning Apple's new Swift language. I think it went well enou...

I had a strange experience over the week involving my local, Nashua, NH, Apple Store. It all started when my Apple Thunderbolt Display start...