Grab Bag, Week 1 In this week's update Prizmo is almost ready for prime time and KOWFM v12 has it's layout working.
Independence: My Plan for 2018 My plan for 2018 is to become independent from Freelancing by designing, building, and selling my own software. I have a lot of projects, A LOT! I've cut and canceled many, but it
Podcast The Pulse I've been freelancing for about 9 months now, and I've actually been paid, which is good. I think that means that I'm making it. But I've screwed up and almost lost everything more
Protocol Definitions in Swift Today I ran into a difficult to identify bug while implementing a Swift Protocol. Swift Protocols and the Protocol pattern has been around in Cocoa for a while and usually takes the form
Art Serving Independent Artists & Designers I want to spend my time making things I'm proud of. I'm not proud of 90% of the work I've done. I'm changing that. I've worked on implementing features and designs that clients
Minimum Viable Post There are a lot of those silly, startupy self help Blog posts about what's necessary for a Minimum Viable Product. That's great for trying to whittle down your idea to just the most
We Need Time Alone to Think The other day I was sitting down in bed holding my little girl, she's a newborn and not apt to sleeping at night sometimes. Lately I've been rocking her to sleep in our
You need your own Space to effectively work from home Today my wife and I decided to reorganize our little room. It's five of us in a 12x12 foot square. Three beds in one room proved to be too much, So we decided
Diminishing Returns of Working Late I'm new to freelancing, which means I'm new to the scheduling and work conflicts that inevitably happen when securing enough projects to sustain myself. Oftentimes I feel overbooked and guilty because of the
Podcast Episode 2 - Joelle Steiniger When you're finished listening to Joelle, Make certain to pick up a copy of Swift Foundations, It's 20% off until january. Also Check out Rocketship.fm, A podcast that interviews entrepreneurs to learn
Hitting Reboot A few months ago I started writing a programming book called Swift Foundations. Soon afterwards I also decided to start a podcast. Trying to do both projects at once was a big mistake.
Lessons Learned Writing Swift Foundations A couple of months ago I started a pretty ambitious project, A programming book for Beginners: Swift Foundations. I also began working on a new podcast for this blog. Doing both at once
Micro blogs are already here Microblog spec I read Manton Reece's thoughts on defining a micro blog post which is pretty cool.i think that what hear getting at is a twitter replacement. Recently news broke that Twitter
48 Hour Book Jam So this past Weekend there was a 48 hour game jam held in downtown Salt Lake City. I really wanted to participate but I realized I had slowed in my progress with Swift
Writing things I used to do much more writing than I do now. The way that My wife and I worked ourselves in to love was through our letters. Pages upon pages of love letters.
How to make a realm model in swift I ran into an issue when making my first realm object in swift. Realm is a new embedded database engine that treats models like objects. It's pretty slick. I ran into trouble when
Podcast Interviews for the Book I'm writing a book, Swift Foundations. It's a beginners book for learning to make iOS apps using Swift. It's going to be pretty rad. kow.fm is still a pretty new thing. I
Oblivicons I made a few icons inspired by the movie Oblivion. They are free through Gumroad: Download. They scale very well to just about any resolution. I designed them in Sketch with Pixel Hinting
Swift How's the Book Going? I'm writing a book that teaches Swift to beginners. Unlike my previous attempts to write a book I have a co-author this time. My Sister Danny said to me that one day she
WWDC 2014 There were a lot of reveals in this years WWDC keynote. It was crazy. They just announced hundreds of new technologies for developers that open up whole new possibilities. There are too many
Saving Time I wrote the following about a year ago: march 23rd 2013, time savings. So you know how we save money? And we always have some leftover. What about saving time and using your
2014 New Years failures It has been some time since the new year started. I wrote down a short list of habits I wanted to aim for. All of which I've failed at. So I've decided to
What is a programmer? I'm a programmer. So what do I do all day? work out problems? Math? Something else that is super fancy. Really Programming is just messing around with a pile of Gibberish until it
Organizing Your Time The most precious resource we have is our time. It's limited, in short supply, and we can't get any more of it. Managing our time wisely becomes the most important thing we do.