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Things have been slow here since the end of December, and the blame rest entirely on one individual: Sherman. Now, Sherman is a 4 month old puppy, and he doesn't know any better, but he's done a number in my ability to focus on anything around
2 Years ago I tracked a ton of information about myself and produced “The Quantified Life” post. I took 2017 off from obsessive tracking, but I got back on the horse in 2018 and tracked a good amount of data every single day of the year. Here’s what 2018
In the past month or so, I’ve had things pick up at my day job significantly. The short of it is that an app I’ve been “directing” (to use John Gruber’s terminology) is making its official launch after almost a year in the works. On top of
I typically treat BirchTree as a solo project, and while that is still very much the case today, I have made an effort to say yes more to doing things with other people. Specifically, I have said yes to doing a few podcasts that I really enjoyed listening to. If
My uncle once told me I should consider fasting for a couple days. He had done it many times and was a big proponent of fasting now and again. "No way, I love food too much," I replied, but he wasn't having it. "That'
I’ve launched a Patreon! I’ve never really thought of myself as someone who would do something like this, but apparently times change. Outside of the obvious “what if no one subscribes?” question, I was always held up by the question of what value I thought I could offer
Back in the fall I started to have an issue with Apple News. I went from seeing hundreds of readers per day to almost zero. I couldn’t figure it out for a long time, and I had just assumed that I no longer satisfied the desires of the Apple
This may not really be that important to anyone reading this, but I thought it was at least worth sharing a few changes I’ll be going through in the near future. First, I’m moving this week! My wife and I are ready to move to something a little
Apple doesn’t answer to me, so this is of no concern to them, but I wanted to take a look back at my watchOS requests to see how close Apple came to meeting them. Siri Watch Face I asked for: Let third party devs integrate to it. Apple delivered:
Apple doesn’t answer to me, so this is of no concern to them, but I wanted to take a look back at my iOS requests to see how close Apple came to meeting them. Performance I asked for: Performance improvements, especially on older devices. Apple delivered: ✅ Exactly this! iOS
I wrote this back in February when I was getting hammered by a small subset of people being at all critical of the impending HomePod release: But I would not be good at my job if every time someone told me something was wrong I replied “well, this has to
This was a fun 2 hour project last night and I’m calling it Amiibo Table. It’s based on the AmiiboAPI that Paul Hallett released yesterday. It’s a simple page and basically just gives you some basic information on whatever Amiibo you’d like. It was an excuse
Drafts 5 has totally won me over and made me fall in love with url-schemes. They are basically a local restful API that can be used to accomplish quite a bit. Below are 6 Drafts Actions that I have created to make using Drafts even better. All of these apps
There is an action built into Drafts 5 that will add a task to OmniFocus, but I found it a bit lacking. In short, the built in action will add the contents of your note as a description. I always set due dates/times and typically add notes and contexts.
More often than not, I write articles for this site after reading something someone else wrote. I browse the web for articles and tweets that I find interesting, and the ones that make me think are very often the ones that inspire me to write something myself. This leads to