: Habituate Update I am slowly but steadily getting Habituate to a shippable state. Last week, I got the account …
: Breaking It Down At WWDC 2019, I met the developers of Bear, which I consider to be one of the best iOS/macOS apps …
: Downstage - Beta 1 Downstage (formerly Learn Your Lines) is available as a TestFlight beta, to use it: Install the …
: More to Come In the dark days of the pandemic, I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin. Of …
: Expand Abbreviations with Scribble in iPadOS 14 One of my favorite new features of iPadOS 14 is Scribble, which allows me to write directly onto …
: Some Thoughts on This Year’s WWDC Announcements Widgets on the iPhone homescreen Looks great, with a clever API similar to watch complications. …
: The Susan Collins of the Internet The ever-brilliant Kara Swisher recently began referring to Mark Zuckerberg as the “Susan Collins of …
: Making Sense of Section 230 This morning, I spent a few hours researching Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, …
: iA Writer Adjusts Micro.blog Integration Version 5.5.1 of iA Writer adjusted its Micro.blog integration flow. They improved it in all the …
: MicroPublisher or Micropublisher? I keep going back and forth on this: should the name of this app be MicroPublisher or …
: On Micropub publishing in IA Writer This week, IA Writer added native publishing to Micropub endpoints. This is quite relevant to my …
: Introducing MicroPublisher Many bloggers who write on iOS use custom automation scripts and shortcuts to publish to their …
: Fun with Micropub Last night (while waiting to watch the season 3 finale of Westworld), I wrote a Python script to …
: Learn Your Lines 4.0.4 Learn Your Lines 4.0.4 fixes an issue where Read Mode would pause after reading a line.
: Learn Your Lines 4.0.3 Learn Your Lines 4.0.3 adds hover states to buttons when using an external pointer on iPad. Get it …
: Adding Pointer Support to iPadOS Apps Xcode 11.4 was released last week bringing new APIs to complement the new (and very delightful) …
: Learn Your Lines 4.0.2 In the latest version of Learn Your Lines, I fixed a bug where back buttons were sometimes not …
: Morning Walk Every morning, I walk to the park while drinking my coffee. In reality, I have only done this 4 …
: Learn Your Lines 4.0 A big update to my memorization app, Learn Your Lines, is now available on the App Store. Version …
: 📚 Finished reading: The Sentence is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz. Great murder mystery novel. …
: Todo List For My Blog Template I’m pretty happy with the blog template I made for this blog, but it still needs quite a bit …
: Being a Beginner For the past 6 months, I’ve been taking jazz piano lessons. At first I was disheartened by how …
: I’ve moved my blog from a handmade (and terrible) CMS to Micro.blog. There are many things …
: 2019: The Year of Enzymes In some ways, 2018 was the year that all my dreams came true. I graduated college, continued fun …
: Learn Your Lines 3.0 Learn Your Lines 3.0 is now available on the App Store. I began making the app my freshman year of …
: Resolving Slow Performance of NSTextStorage I spent a couple hours yesterday attempting to resolve some performance issues when adding some …
: Being Generous With My Time In my lifelong pursuit to be less boring, I have tried all kinds of tactics: watch more …
: A Week Without Podcasts Turns out, writing a blog post about something doesn’t will it into reality. I’m here to …
: 2018: Keep Moving In the grand scheme of my life, 2018 is set to be a big one. Sitting here right now, I already know …
: Todo List Workflow Followup Last week I proposed a strategy for dealing with my to-do list. In the past, I’ve gone back …
: The Anti-Feed Machine If recent rumors are to be believed, Apple is releasing a new Apple Watch with cellular connectivity …
: Notifications From Past Me I’m deep into the time-sucking vortex that is my senior year of college. Filled with crippling …
: ACScrollView ACScrollView on Github Paged scroll views are an important part of Learn Your Lines. Both Read Mode …
: Learn Your Lines Hits 10,000 Downloads Recently, Learn Your Lines received its 10,000th download. I have almost no analytics in the app, so …
: How Do You Feel About That? Podcasts are my favorite medium. As of this writing, I am currently subscribed to 64 podcast feeds. …
: To Pixar and Beyond Like a lot of people, I never finish most of the books that I start reading. For some reason though, …
: Learn Your Lines 2.3 Learn Your Lines 2.3. Bring it on. Multiple language support for Read Mode Ability to change …
: How Poorly I Saw Merlin Mann on a sobering post-election episode of The Talk Show this week: “I’m just …
: Learn Your Lines 2.2 Updated user-interface which makes Learn Your Lines rounder and friendlier. I hope you like it. Get …
: #LetUsPoop I figured it was worth giving an update on what I’ve been working on these past couple months. …
: #LetUsPoop I figured it was worth giving an update on what I’ve been working on these past couple months. …
: Learn Your Lines 2.1 They said it couldn’t get better than 2.0. Today it did. Major Performance and Stability …
: Learn Your Lines 2.0 Learn Your Lines 2.0 is the biggest thing to happen to memorization since… Learn Your Lines …
: Moving Forward Be on the lookout for Learn Your Lines 2.0 coming to an iOS device near you whenever Apple gives the …
: Making Stuff for People For whatever reason, the download numbers for Learn Your Lines continue to climb at a steady rate. I …