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Caveat Emptor

I barely remember writing any of these posts. They feel like someone else’s work. Yet I have left this archive intact for the sake of...dot dot dot. I cannot understand it. They’re all poorly written and an embarassment but they are mine and they are archived by the Wayback Machine, so what would be the point of trying to pretend they didn’t exist?

2024

November 12 – Beware @unchecked Sendable, or Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation
July 12 – Bookmarking Xcode Project Search Results
May 20 – How Do You Know Whether or Not SwiftUI Previews and Preview Content Are Excluded From App Store Builds?
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