A Sprinkle of Cocoa

In my last post  I argued that you can get a perfectly useable used 2015 MacBook Pro development machine for half the cost of a moderately s...

I've been concerned about how little time I spend on my home software projects these days, and have been thinking that maybe a MacBook P...

So, I was verifying that my Chemistry Keyboard works with the iOS 12 beta, and I immediately noticed that the Globe button's icon looked...

I'd like to take this quote apart and explain its meaning to me. The general idea is someone develops an idea, something novel and ...

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...