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What I’m listening to, now
When I was driving back and forth every week from Maryland to Atlanta I would listen to a slew of podcasts and audio books. Most of the podcasts were related to iOS, a platform I’m quite passionate about.
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Astrology
one of most hilarious things I ever read..post in MAD magazine years ago as a kid. In the astrology section (or whatever they call that part of the newspaper where they predict your future based on when you were born),
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Podcasts I’m currently listening to
I previously posted a couple of times what podcasts I was listening to. Back then, I was driving up and down the East coast every weekend between Maryland and Atlanta, so I had a lot of time to listen. Now, my commute time is much less, thankfully. That also means I spend less time listening…
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Apple TV – Material Design
I got my AppleTV a couple days ago, but had zero time to do anything with it. Last night I finally just unboxed it b/c I couldn’t wait anymore, but I still haven’t even plugged it in. My HD TV set only has three HDMI ports, so I dug around in our TV cabinet last…
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Swift 2 Unit Testing & UI Testing Resources
Starting to write unit tests in Swift 2 / Xcode 7 so thought I would keep a list of resources and share. Plan to keep this post updated as I find more. Feel free to ping additional resources in the comments! Talk by Jorge Oritz Real World Mocking in Swift (April 2016) brief overview…
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Eid ul Adha
There are three life experiences I’ve had, that I strongly feel every adult should experience. They are things that have opened my eyes to reality in a way that only experience can do; knowing something by being taught it or hearing about it is never the same as experiencing it for yourself.
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my best shot
The day I got my DSLR, many years ago, I took a bunch of test shots having no clue what I was doing. One of those shots I have always considered my best photo, ever, even though it was totally random and lucky. As of yesterday, that shot has been replaced as my favorite shot…
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Google / Alphabet easter egg
My coworker just found a neat easter egg on the new Google Company, Alphabet go to abc.xyz and search for the word “drone” Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort. at the end…
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Google Analytics & Swift
I’m working on an iOS app written entirely in Swift that uses the Google Analytics library. At Google I/O 2015 they announced full support for Swift and even CocoaPods (which doesn’t actually work if any of your other libraries use_frameworks! – but they are working on that and it’s not a trivial fix). The initial intro…
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iOS rapid #photog workflow
I don’t always lug my DSLR around with me, but I almost always have my old iPhone 4S on hand. I’ve often commented at how amazed I am by the image quality from such an antiquated mobile device. Recently a friend was asking how I got my images to come out so great from the iPhone,…