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Gistify 1.2.0: Drag & Drop Gisting 13 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Gistify just keeps getting better! Gistify 1.2.0 is now in the App Store, and features some awesome drag and drop magic. Drag a snippet of text or an entire file onto the Gistify icon and a new gist ...
RubyMotion Update: One Month Later 7 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
My last post on RubyMotion generated quite a lot of interest, and I’ve been asked a few times for my opinion on the recent RubyMotion bugfixes (like correcting RM-3 and RM-32). I thought it sensible t...
Sidekiq + Houston: Persistent Apple Connection Pooling 2 Jul 2013 | 07:24 am
Having not updated rapnd in a good long while, I was looking for well-supported, up-to-date solution for persisting long-running connections to Apple’s push notification service through a worker. I di...
Why I'm Not Using RubyMotion in Production 26 Jun 2013 | 10:11 pm
I’m a big proponent of RubyMotion – a year and a month ago, I wrote an article titled ”Why RubyMotion is Better Than Objective-C” and despite its divisiveness I still stand behind the points I made. R...
Big Brother is Both Savvy and Incompetent 10 Jun 2013 | 10:40 pm
I heard an argument recently that the data collected by PRISM was safe from abuse because if the government had the technical expertise to gather the data, it had the competency to secure it as well. ...
Gistify 1.1.0: Visibility & Accounts 4 Jun 2013 | 04:44 am
Hot on the heels of my previous announcement, I’m proud to announce the release of Gistify version 1.1.0. And after submitting only four days ago – man, the Mac App store moves incredibly fast compare...
Gistify: a Mac App for Easy Gists 29 May 2013 | 11:32 pm
Today I’m happy to announce the release of my very first Mac App: Gistify! Gistify rather simply delivers the content of your clipboard to GitHub’s awesome Gist service. You can select the default fo...
Huey 2.0.0 9 May 2013 | 09:18 pm
Today I released Huey version 2.0.0! Though it contains a number of small bug fixes, the biggest change is switching away from SSDP to using the Hue’s own bridge discovery protocol. This is both faste...
Why Your Startup Is Failing (And How To Fix It) 30 Apr 2013 | 12:49 pm
The title of this post might be somewhat misleading: it’s probably pretty obvious to you why your startup is failing. The same reason any business fails – you’re spending more money than you make. For...
The Perils of Overengineering 23 Apr 2013 | 11:19 pm
Overengineering is a special subset of the generalized problem of “making bad choices.” Usually overengineering is the result of one of two specific bad choices: either adding too much unnecessary blo...
