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How to make sugar look healthy.
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Today’s news (rumour) of Apple planning to bring iOS apps to the Mac and combining Mac development under iOS SDK causes me to hesitate about my current two Mac apps in development. Doesn’t sound good for business to continue developing Mac apps. Switch to Web apps, maybe?
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Wow. VoodooPad was purchased once again and moved to Toronto. Let’s hope Primate Labs will keep it alive and develop it further.
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Mac App Store is so horrible for customer support. A customer complains that she bought the app years ago but now it won’t restore purchases. The app is free + IAPs so some think they bought it while used for free. I have no way to verify their transactions to see if they bought.
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Why does every apparel chain force us to pay for the “privilege” to advertise their brand on our chests. It’s nigh impossible to find a shirt that doesn’t have the brand logo on it. Even children’s clothes.
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Sparky is looking outside, waiting for kids to return home from school (pretty on time).
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Today I learned you can restore deleted files from iCloud Drive
Thanks to sixcolors.com for writing a guide about restoring files from iCloud Drive because I wrote a blog post in iA Writer on Mac (using iCloud as storage), then moved to MarsEdit, but because of some problem with publishing (Markdown not converting to HTML), I deleted it from Wordpress itself (including from trash) because I wanted MarsEdit to republish it. I also deleted it from iA Writer because I continued editing in MarsEdit and didn’t need two copies of the text.
Then after refresh in MarsEdit my post disappeared from MarsEdit and I was left with no copied. Time Machine also didn’t have time to back up any copies.
Luckily, a simple Google search led to Dan Moren’s article on Six Colors revealed that it is actually possible to restore deleted files. Phew.
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Just watched the Emoji movie with the family. It was Meh.
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The people who can unlock your iPhone X with their face will be henceforth known as your “X Twins”, short for “Face ID Twins”. Emoji: ♊️📲
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My co-working space, @launch1460, has this nice touch on the floor as you enter it.
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Yesterday I flipped through and listened to vinyl records at a friend’s house, for the first time in decades. Nostalgic.
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Every time I do something that concerns service businesses, I get bombarded with surveys. Traveled? Hotel asks for reviews for themselves, then for TripAdvisor, then Expedia asks how my stay was too. Same with my bank and car dealers, cellular providers. Please stop. Thank you.
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How app ideas are born
Yesterday I returned from the third Release Notes conference. Like in the previous two years, I had a fantastic time, meeting old and new friends, getting educated and inspired. If you’re in the business of making software, you should definitely check it out.
One of the highlights of this conference is the dine-around — a dinner with a small group of participants that fits around one table. All the participants get split into such groups and go to different restaurants based on their food preferences. This year I was in the group that dined at a sushi place, Tanoshii.
The food and the chat were great. Then came the bill. One bill. What should’ve been 11 separate bills (as Charles, one of the conference organizers, instructed restaurants ahead of time) became one, long, list of items.
I believe that the process of paying the bill took at least 30 minutes and involved quite a lot of fiddling like marking in the bill, counting and passing around credit cards.
Naturally, with all the app developers around the table, this turned into a discussion of how we could solve it faster with an appropriate app. Curtis, who gave a fantastic business talk the next morning, started to brainstorm ideas of how to use latest Apple mobile technologies to build an app to split such bills in a short time. Others have joined. The app now used photo scanning with OCR, face recognition, drag and drop, and ARKit.
Everything seemed to be ready and planned, and Curtis was almost prepared to take on the project during the weekend.
I realized that the app was missing a catchy name. I got an idea, and this was my only contribution to the “project”. In my mind, it could only be named after its inspiration: Tanoshii.
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Apparently, I’m the only participant, except one of the speakers, who remembers MacYenta. “LinkedIn for Mac Indie developers” since 2008.
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Chicago
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Really impressed with how quickly @manton released a working version of micro.blog app for the Mac. Great start, inspires to post more.
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☑️ The Bean
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Sparky, with an antler
Framed with ImageFramer
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YinYang
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“The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.” - Daniel Levitin, “Organized Mind”
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Two years ago I published “TL;DR Programming” article. I still like it. Thoughts?
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Testing posting from the micro.blog application.
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I now have exactly 1000 followers on Twitter. Thank god for arbitrary, meaningless achievements we can celebrate. 🍾
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Hi Stephen (@stefp). Misplaced Childhood should indeed be interesting to hear with a new remix. But if he did “Script from a Jester’s tear”, that would’ve been even better, IMO.
By the way, I think you’ll enjoy my recent article My first printed magazine experience
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