A Sprinkle of Cocoa

As I've written before , I was fixated on buying a recent Mazda 3 hatchback. Such a beautiful car, available with my favored manual tran...

I have not been a happy CarPlay user for the last couple months. I'd started getting the occasional loss of connection with my previous ...

There's an old story that when Apple was getting ready to release the fast version of the Macintosh SE, their naming convention should h...

As a writer of apps—such as TV Towers USA —which rely on the device's compass, I periodically would hear from users who don't see th...

I recently got a 2 star review for my TV Towers USA  app. This would be a nice app if it pointed in the right direction!  Most of the ti...

As always, I was grateful to get a 5 star review for Signal GH , my app to let HDHomerun users best point their antennas.  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ve...

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...