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Friends of the Show
- Dagmar Chili Pitas – The Official Unofficial Mirror
2022
- November 11 – Deep Fake
2021
- May 3 – The Destructors, or, Yet Another Rant About That Basecamp Post
- April 12 – Deep Fake
- April 1 – Mustang
2020
- November 3 – Four Years Ago
- October 21 – Every Skill is a Liability
- May 28 – Dagmar Chili Pitas: The Official Unofficial Mirror
- May 7 – When Should I Use @State, @Binding, @ObservedObject, @EnvironmentObject, or @Environment?
- April 1 – Addicted to Jesus
2019
- April 7 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Tumblr
- April 6 – Please Pardon Our Mess
- April 6 – Clipper Ships
- April 1 – Unit Testing is Easier Than You Think
- March 27 – PSA: Please Don’t Double Space Between Sentences
- March 24 – Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account
- March 19 – iOS App Analytics a Necessary Evil, or Maybe Just an Evil
2018
- December 12 – Reference Types vs Value Types: the Original Sin of Programming
- December 7 – Little Weeds of Dread
- October 15 – TIL: Boy, Have I Been Misusing SCNetworkReachability
- September 18 – Migrating to Unified Logging, Swift Edition
- August 10 – Twitter Made Flesh
- August 7 – Bad Idea Rejection Tokens™
- February 11 – Welcome Home (Pod), a Very Short Play About Apple’s Inexcusable Failure to Recognize Even Mildly Disfluent Speech
- February 8 – Keep Screen Unlocked: ’sodes Feature for Folks Who Don’t Have CarPlay
- February 3 – What’s the Deal with “No Downloads” In ’sodes?
2017
- September 25 – Apple Watch Series 3 First Impression: Mindblown.gif
- September 20 – Get Your Architecture Right, Because You Always Have More Time than You Think You Do
- June 5 – The Leftovers is Over
- June 5 – Tune in Next Time for “Last-Minute WWDC Comments” or “Apple Isn’t Doomed to Fail, But Their Future Doesn’t Look as Rosy as Their Past”
- April 12 – My Ideal Politician
- April 11 – Working With Designs That Require Display Versus Text San Francisco Fonts
- March 27 – Stormcrow
- March 17 – Swift Needs a Scope Keyword
2016
- December 1 – How To Write The Software
- November 27 – Tangential Thinking
- November 2 – How I Organize a Swift File
- October 31 – Self-Driving Car Fleet Commercial: 2021
- October 28 – Future Imperfect
- October 19 – AsyncOperations
- September 3 – Implementing AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate: a How-To Guide
- July 30 – How to Pause and Resume Your App’s Audio in Response to Turn-by-Turn Notifications and Other Audio from Other Apps
- July 5 – The Value of Grey Thinking
- June 21 – How to Make a Sticker Pack for iOS 10 Messages
- June 14 – Apple TV Focus Animation Coordinator Bug
- May 4 – Rethinking Apple Music
- April 27 – A Very Narrow Usage of Storyboards
- April 26 – Don DeLillo on Chickenshit White UI Design
- March 25 – I admit I never understood what Manton found appealing about microblog posts until today, a week...
- January 1 – Imagining a First-Party Swift KVO Replacement
- January 1 – NSNotificationCenter is Probably an Anti-Pattern
2015
- December 31 – Steven Sinofsky on Why Remote Engineering is So Difficult
- November 14 – Saving the iPad
- November 3 – Time Zones Version 1.2 Available Today
- October 25 – Are You a Workaholic?
- October 20 – Back to the Past
- October 20 – Thoreau on Self-Driving Cars
- October 20 – Mistakes
- October 16 – Are You Rich?
- September 29 – New Job
- September 28 – Wishlist for Swift 3.0
- September 9 – Swift – Versus – Storyboards and State Restoration
- September 4 – Pushing on the Pull Door
- August 22 – Suggestions to Improve Using CocoaPods with Private Specs
- August 22 – Code-Signing and CocoaPods
- July 5 – Judicious Use of Shitty Code
- June 16 – App Store Search is More Depressing than the Game of Thrones Finale
- June 14 – How to Become an Indie Developer
- June 11 – Origin of the CMD Symbol
- June 11 – WWDC 2015
- June 9 – Making Toast Again
- May 22 – My Daily Habits Before and After the Apple Watch
- April 25 – Jared’s Code Signing Tips: Apple Watch Edition
- April 14 – Follow These Guidelines and Never Struggle with Xcode Code Signing Again
- April 14 – Apple Watch Try-On, Unsorted Thoughts
- April 14 – Screenshots of Every Screen of Apple Watch Settings.app
- April 14 – Full-Time Hobbyists
- April 13 – Riposte, the App.net App, Permanently Removed from Sale
- April 8 – Kottke on the Apple Watch, But Really on All Technological Progess, Ever
- April 6 – Unanswered Questions About Apple Watch Versus App-Driven Businesses
- April 3 – Amazon Lambda
- March 13 – More Followup on Sharing Data With WatchKit Extensions
- January 16 – [Sponsor] Digit
- January 14 – Taking the Time to Thank Your Mentors
- January 11 – [Sponsor] Digit
- January 7 – Anthony Bourdain on Showing Up on Time
2014
- December 12 – [Sponsor] PagerDuty
- December 9 – All These App Rejection Stories in One Headline “No One Dares to Build WatchKit Apps that Matter”
- December 6 – [Sponsor]: PagerDuty
- December 6 – Follow-up on Sharing Data with WatchKit Extensions
- November 19 – WatchKit Extension Problem: Sharing a Core Data Store Can Lead to Duplicate Entries
- November 17 – How I Learned that Video Games are For Old Ladies, Too
- November 1 – Unread by the Numbers
- October 14 – Bloglovin 3.0.3 Available Now
- October 9 – Weekly Sponsor: Mandrill
- October 4 – Weekly Sponsor: Mandrill
- September 25 – Beyond Objective-C, Beyond Swift
- September 23 – The iPhone 6 Plus Makes Designing Apps for Physical Comfort More Difficult — and More Important — Than Ever
- September 18 – Iterate 74: Designing for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, with Kawano, Sinclair, and Wiskus
- September 17 – Good Design is a Process, iPhones 6 Edition
- September 16 – Good Design is About Process, not Product
- September 11 – Unread is Now a Supertop App
- September 10 – The Best of All Possible Xcode Automated Build Numbering Techniques
- August 31 – Time-Saving TextExpander Snippets for Xcode
- August 31 – Finding Objectivity When You Feel Lost as a Designer
- August 27 – Quotebook: a Commonplace Book for Your iPhone or iPad
- August 8 – My New Job
- August 8 – What's the Most Common App Icon Color?
- August 6 – For Subclass Eyes Only: Swift, UIGestureRecognizer, and the Protected Extension Pattern
- August 4 – Five Hard Lessons Learned from Unread
- July 29 – On Promotion and Marketing - A Response to Critics of Yesterday’s Article about Unread
- July 28 – Tyler Hall’s Candid Look at the Financial Side of Building Mac Apps
- July 28 – A Candid Look at Unread's First Year
- July 25 – JTSActionSheet – Simple, Customizable Replacement for UIActionSheets on iPhone
- July 23 – Shawn Blanc's Delight is in the Details – New Version has an Audio Interview with Yours Truly
- July 23 – UIFontWeightTrait Ignored When Creating a New Font – TextKit Bug or a Jared Goof?
- July 11 – Why are Inflation and Deficits Bad?
- July 11 – Birthday Cake M&M's – The Dawn of a New Era
- July 5 – Your New National Health Service
- July 3 – “The Best of Both Worlds” – Yours Truly on CMD+Space
- July 2 – They Make Such Bloody Good Cameras
- July 1 – I Love Teleportation - A Summary of a Wishful Day
- July 1 – I Hate Flying – A Summary of Our Day:
- June 27 – OvershareKit to be Maintenance-Only for iOS 8
- June 26 – Preferred Orientation
- June 26 – Happy Birthday, Henry
- June 24 – Nitpicking iOS Notification Banners
- June 23 – David Ronnqvist on CALayer Animations
- June 19 – Healthy Skepticism – My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse
- June 15 – Thanking My Dad for Caring About “Getting It Right”
- June 12 – Maglus Stylus Review
- June 9 – Unread for iPad
- May 27 – Smartphones, the Internet of Things, and the Death of Software
- May 24 – Friday App Design Review – Castro for iPhone
- May 22 – Seeking Advice for a Right-to-Left Language Bug in Unread
- May 20 – My Reasonable iPhone 6 Prediction
- May 19 – A Practical Introduction to Photoshop for iOS Developers
- May 18 – Basement Menus and Breaking the “Rules” of App Design
- May 17 – No Friday App Design Review This Week
- May 13 – AutoLayout Myths, Table View Performance, and Side-by-Side iPad App Multi-tasking
- May 9 – Friday App Design Review – AnyList, Shared Grocery Lists
- May 2 – Friday App Design Review – Code Review, an Inbox for GitHub Pull Requests
- April 29 – iOS 7 Squandered a Year of Third-Party Development on Superficial Changes
- April 29 – CocoaRadio
- April 25 – Bug in Videos.app Doesn't Clear Cached Data for Streamed TV Shows and Movies
- April 25 – Friday App Design Review – eHarmony
- April 24 – Giving Up On The iPad
- April 22 – Sloppy Swiping – How to Make An App Feel Comfortable
- April 21 – App Story Podcast, Episode 4
- April 20 – Unread Version 1.2 Available Now
- April 18 – Ben Brooks’ Thoughts on Project Collaboration Apps
- April 18 – Friday App Design Review: Glassboard
- April 17 – Quote From a Dumb Novel I Didn’t Finish Writing So I Could Finish Nursing School Instead
- April 15 – Designing Unread for iPad Part 5 – Comical Amounts of Negative Space
- April 13 – Why Unread Will Never Have a Readability View
- April 13 – Unread Version 1.2 Launches April 21st
- April 11 – Introducing Friday App Design Reviews
- April 10 – Recap of My Recent Github Goodies
- April 10 – Free Kickstarter Idea: Inkjet Typewriter
- April 10 – Designing Unread for iPad Part 4 – The One Screen I'm Sure About
- April 9 – Designing Unread for iPad – Part 3
- April 1 – Cell Height Caching Dilemmas in Unread
- April 1 – Feature Idea for UIKit: UIDeviceCharacteristics
- March 24 – Rdio iOS SDK
- March 2 – Two Alarm Fire – One More Old Post From 2008
- March 2 – Making Toast as an End in Itself
- February 26 – Designing Unread for iPad
- February 11 – Chippy Now Available
- February 3 – Designing Unread
- February 3 – Unread Now Available on the App Store
- February 3 – The New Austerity
- February 2 – Where Is Apple Going?
- January 31 – Chippy - A Fast Way to Send Stuff to Your Pivotal Tracker Icebox
- January 31 – Unread Launch Announcement
- January 30 – On Healthy Shame
- January 27 – Dark Sky — Some Constructive Criticism for Today’s Update
- January 26 – The Philosophy of Unread, my Forthcoming RSS App
- January 22 – Unread — Release Candidate 1.0
- January 11 – Weak Referencing Dictionary
- January 10 – Open Letter to OmniGroup About the iOS 7 Redesign of OmniFocus for iPhone
- January 9 – The Indie Ocean
- January 9 – Unread App Status Report
2013
- December 26 – Lengthen Your Line — Why I Oppose Software Patents
- December 20 – Pull-To-Do-Action
- December 19 – Solving the App Store Discovery Problem with App Playlists and Good Taste
- December 18 – Pencil Stylus Review
- November 30 – Accessible No. 4: “They’re Not Stupid”
- November 20 – Tumblr's iOS App Updated for iOS 7
- November 3 – Hidden Goodies in OvershareKit
- November 2 – “Form Follows Function” Is More Complicated Than iOS 7 Thinks
- October 31 – Overshare
- October 23 – Untouchable
- September 27 – Creative Work and Christian Perfection: The Humility Required to do Your Best Work
- September 25 – Instagram’s iOS 7 Update: They Blew It
- September 23 – The Death and Afterlife of Thalidomide
- September 18 – Unexpected Design Challenges While Updating Riposte and Whisper for iOS 7
- September 17 – Wrestling with Status Bars and Navigation Bars on iOS 7
- September 17 – Another Reason to be Bullish About App.net
- August 27 – Swipe To Go Everywhere
- August 26 – How Will We Know if iOS 7 is a Success or a Failure?
- August 6 – Delight is in the Details — By Shawn Blanc
- August 5 – Orange Is The New Black
- August 3 – Real Artists Fail
- August 2 – Achievement Unlocked: Shawnballer
- August 1 – You Don’t Need a Zoom Lens I stumbled across it two more...
- August 1 – You Don't Need a Zoom Lens
- August 1 – Getting It Right
- July 24 – Unread - An RSS Reader
- July 24 – Announcing Unread: an RSS reader and my first indie project. The...
- July 16 – Is That It? — My First Short Story
- July 15 – Manual of the Church of the Nazarene
- June 16 – What can I say? They fired the wrong guy.
- June 13 – Apps Are Content, Too
2012
- August 6 – Runaway cat ran all the way to our old apartment. Jerk! (Taken...
- July 25 – Death Rate Dropped Where Medicaid Grew, Study Finds
- July 12 – The Real History of the @reply on Twitter
- July 6 – An old drawing from my Illinois days.
- July 1 – I found a new business model, Michael… Michael Sippey at...
- June 27 – Lego Ad
- June 15 – Mr. HIStalk Quote
- June 14 – My Super-Obvious Xcode Keyboard Shortcuts If you do a lot of...
- June 13 – Michigan Sunset (Taken with Instagram)
- June 11 – Photo
- June 11 – Waaaaaaake Up! Wake Up, San Francisco! (Taken with Instagram)
- June 5 – The Usability Problem
- June 4 – Dr. Rick on the ONC/NIST Usability Conference
- June 4 – Why is Photo Sharing Still So Hard?
- June 2 – The Ongoing Confusion with iOS App Icons
- May 31 – Never Go Cheap on Business Cards
- May 31 – Designing Great Business Cards The goals I look for in a...
- May 22 – Tony Gruenwald on Season 5 of Mad Men
- May 22 – Meet Dr. Rick I finally had the opportunity to meet the...
- May 21 – Dan Benjamin Responds to 5by5 Fans About The Talk Show
- April 17 – Big week? Huge week!
- April 14 – If only Tom Servo had had the chance to riff The Hunger Games.
- April 5 – Made with Paper
- April 4 – I updated my Peanuts gang iPad wallpapers for the new retina...
- March 31 – Made with Paper