I Lost My Apple Watch To A Volcano. I Am Not Sure If I'll Buy A Replacement.
Living without an Apple Watch for two months has caused me to have second thoughts about buying a new one due to Apple's software and business practices.…
How to write a custom CoreData NSMergePolicy
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.…
StreetPass for Mastodon finally supports Safari
I particularly like how it maintains a running list of the accounts associated with various web sites you visit throughout the day.…
A simple trick to reduce import statement clutter in Swift
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…
Traveling internationally with only an Apple Watch and no phone
"Let's descend under three feet of water & take a photo with my phone", I suggested to the dive master. One minute & three splashes later, I had a memorable photo of me & my friends scuba diving at altitude & a dead phone. Odd, considering I washed it with soap & water under a faucet the week before…
