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Instantbight Interview 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Me: I write and code in a corner office in my home, with two big windows, a skylight, and three giant Boeing surplus desks — earthquake-proof, I’d bet — arranged in a U shape. The desks are clean but...
What Justin Would Do With Glassboard 23 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Justin Williams: Glassboard has become the ‘conference’ app for better or worse. Every Macworld, WWDC, and independent conference seems to set up a board for evening activities. I’m also using it for...
Glassboard Seeks New Home 23 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
From the Glassboard blog: We want Glassboard to not only continue running but also to evolve and flourish. So we’re looking for a good home for Glassboard. The backend service for Glassboard runs in ...
SQLite + FMDB Talk 22 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
I’ll be speaking at 360iDev in Colorado on using SQLite and FMDB as an alternative to Core Data. I’ll begin with why you might want to do this — and why you should probably stick with Core Data — and ...
Commas for Developers 15 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
Consider this sentence: I went to the moon, it has low gravity. Or this one: We drove 30 miles, the car ran out of gas. If those look okay to you, then read on. (Otherwise, scram. You’ve got work ...
Skipping Ender’s Game 15 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
Ender’s Game might be a good movie. But I won’t watch it. I can’t get past Orson Scott Card’s nuttiness. Here he is on how Obama could install Michelle Obama as his successor — via the use of brown s...
Philip Roth Interview 14 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
The Paris Review interviewed Philip Roth in 1984. He was asked how he starts work on a new book. I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there’s a paragraph that’s alive. Okay, I say to ...
Brin on Star Wars 13 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
David Brin, writing in Salon in 1999: No wonder George Lucas publicly yearns for the pomp of mighty kings over the drab accountability of presidents. Many share his belief that things might be a whol...
Satanic References in Mac OS X 7 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
if {[S 0 == {5\x0aSatan's_Dark_Delight}]} {emit {Quake I save: e3m4 Satan's dark delight}} This cryptic phrase — which reads very much like a record played backward — is found on line 2985 in /System...
Eulogy for My Grandmother 30 Jul 2013 | 11:49 pm
My grandmother Betty Jane Davis died Sunday, July 21. I delivered the eulogy (below) at the Newfield United Methodist Church in Newfield, NJ Sunday, July 28. Newfield is a very small town in south Ne...
