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So back in the dark ages, we registered to receive notifications like this: -[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:] In other words, the target-action pattern. When the notification is...
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So there’s an article on HN today about how in-app purchase is destroying the game industry. There are a couple of problems with this theory. The original in-app purchase See, in the in-app purchase...
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Warning: this post wanders around a lot. Sorry. There was an article a bit ago about opening presentations in old versions of Keynote: “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old. To open...
View ArticlePython 3 is fine
There has been a slow chorus of poor anti-Python 3 articles lately. Today’s was Python 3 is killing Python. The article is “true” in the sense that it accurately reflects the author’s feelings, but the...
View ArticleRE: xkcd #1357 free speech
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View ArticleOn the Apple Watch
Enough people have asked me about the watch that I should probably put my thoughts here. Some background First, let me paint the picture for you. You’re sitting on $160 bn. You’ve tried paying...
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Peopls say that the state of Python packaging/dependency management/package managers are awful. Those people have obviously never done package management with iOS. Tools like CocoaPods exist to...
View ArticleBeyond Open Source
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View ArticleGoogle, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
Lately there’s been a barrage of articles about how Apple is destroying the open web (because “app store, lol”) and it is Time Something Was Done About This: Apple’s paranoid approach to developer...
View ArticleObjC is our generation’s COBOL
On practically Day 1 of Swift, it seemed clear that the future of the platform would change forever. I have begun to realize how sweeping that change will be. We’re at peak ObjC Here’s the TIOBE index...
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nanomsg was a once-bright alternative to ZeroMQ. The project had a lot going for it: It was a rewrite by the original author. It was a rewrite in C, and there were really solid technical arguments at...
View ArticleHow in-app purchase is not really destroying the games industry
So there’s an article on HN today about how in-app purchase is destroying the game industry. There are a couple of problems with this theory. The original in-app purchase See, in the in-app purchase...
View ArticleConduct unbecoming of a hacker
Warning: this post wanders around a lot. Sorry. There was an article a bit ago about opening presentations in old versions of Keynote: “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old. To open...
View ArticlePython 3 is fine
There has been a slow chorus of poor anti-Python 3 articles lately. Today’s was Python 3 is killing Python. The article is “true” in the sense that it accurately reflects the author’s feelings, but the...
View ArticleRE: xkcd #1357 free speech
. 1 2 3 In early English history the right to “freedom of speech” only applied within the four walls of Parliament. In 1689, William and Mary acknowledged “That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or...
View ArticleOn the Apple Watch
Enough people have asked me about the watch that I should probably put my thoughts here. Some background First, let me paint the picture for you. You’re sitting on $160 bn. You’ve tried paying...
View ArticleOn iOS Packaging
Peopls say that the state of Python packaging/dependency management/package managers are awful. Those people have obviously never done package management with iOS. Tools like CocoaPods exist to...
View ArticleBeyond Open Source
I meet a lot of developers who have bought into the hype about open source. It’s great! It’s going to save the world from the perils of proprietary software! Or failing that, just produce free,...
View ArticleGoogle, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
Lately there’s been a barrage of articles about how Apple is destroying the open web (because “app store, lol”) and it is Time Something Was Done About This: Apple’s paranoid approach to developer...
View ArticleObjC is our generation’s COBOL
On practically Day 1 of Swift, it seemed clear that the future of the platform would change forever. I have begun to realize how sweeping that change will be. We’re at peak ObjC Here’s the TIOBE index...
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