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Dagmar Chili Pitas – The Two-Year Chili
Doxowox – Another classic.

2024

March 14 – Be Careful When You Initialize a State Object
March 2 – Scaled Metric Surprises on iOS & iPadOS

2023

October 29 – Dagmar Chili Pitas & Doxowox: Now With Slightly-Less Unofficial Mirrors

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