It may seem silly to celebrate the anniversary of my first Mac purchase. But without that machine which I unboxed 18 years ago today, I would not have built the indie game that launched my crazy career where I was in the right place at the right time many times.…
Modern vehicles capture (and sell) data about your behavior (how you drive, where you live, where you drive to, what your sexual orientation is). I decided to look into the process of disabling OnStar on my new-to-me Chevrolet Bolt.…
Documenting Apple's undocumented and unclear code. Last month I encountered my first need for a custom CoreData merge policy and turned to the Apple documentation for guidance. There wasn't much and I was getting a weird crash that made no sense to me.…
I particularly like how it maintains a running list of the accounts associated with various web sites you visit throughout the day.…
In an interview with Russ Roberts on EconTalk, author and futurist Kevin Kelly convincingly suggests that we should treat AIs like Midjourney and ChatGPT as alien intelligences (in a non-spooky way).…
Quite frequently I find myself needing to import a module to gain access to a type (usually a model), but I never interact with that module again. Recently I discovered simple way to skip having to put import ModuleName at the top of my code. This trick is especially handy…
This post is the first post to be published on the Fediverse directly from @quigs_blog@quigs.blog! I wrote the Ghost CMS integration myself and will be writing about that experience in the near future. Enjoy the rest of your day! 👋…
Have you noticed that all the examples on Apple's website and elsewhere only use List views for the sidebar and don't have a NavigationStack in the final detail view that they push additional content onto? There's a reason for that, and unfortunately it's not a pleasant one.…
