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Wishes for WWDC 2021
‘Tis the season for WWDC rumors, predictions, and wishlists! Spring is off to a shaky start here in Nebraska; we’ve had a series of colder, windy days that seem more at home in March than May, and the...
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What’s New in YarnBuddy
My backlog of blog posts I want to write is getting a bit ridiculous at this point. One of them is a follow-up to YarnBuddy’s “App of the Day” feature back in March, complete with screenshots and...
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Adding a Gradient to Large Title Text in SwiftUI or UIKit
When I first released YarnBuddy, it had an orange-to-pink gradient as the navigation bar background color. The colors reminded me of a sunset, which I liked, but the overall effect was a little too...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on the Eve of WWDC
Here we are again, on the eve of another WWDC, feeling…weird. Excited. Ambivalent? Curious. Did I mention excited? But also kinda annoyed. And some of you? Some of you are downright mad. There’s a...
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I’m Making a Game
I think this is the longest I’ve gone without a new blog post in several years now. Over the summer, I got YarnBuddy to a good, stable place—meaning people are now emailing me feature requests instead...
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What I’m Excited About/Hoping for at WWDC 2022
It’s kitten season here at the farm. As I type this, I’m sitting at the bottom of the stairs near the dining room, keeping an eye on a shoebox full of black and white furballs. We had to pry them from...
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Reflections on WWDC 2022
General Thoughts Let me first say: I think it’s hilarious Apple didn’t even mention augmented reality this year. On one hand, it felt like very purposeful trolling; on the other hand, much of Apple’s...
View ArticleThe Friends We Made Along the Way
I was in middle school when I really fell in love with the Internet. I’d flirted with it a bit prior, creating my own Geocities site in homage to the popular virtual pet software “Petz” by P.F. Magic...
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Rediscovery
We’re already eleven days into the new year, and here I am writing a New Year Reflection Post of sorts. One thing I’ve noticed this year (and in past years, but this year especially) is that a lot of...
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Every day I drive down a small stretch of our town’s Main Street in order to drop my kids off at the elementary school, which is nestled a block over in the midst of a tightly-packed residential area,...
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