I’ll periodically get these flashbacks to moments in my career where I can now realize that I was way out of my element and didn’t know what the fuck I was doing. Having worked at an early stage startup I ended up in a role where I was managing other engineers and I was not…

Speaking as someone who’s never attended a WWDC in person, today’s sessions felt like an overall improvement over an in-person event. Presentations felt tighter and more polished overall. It was probably a little less nerve-wracking for the speakers to have everything recorded ahead of time, even if they miss out on some of the live…

Having seen some of the apps that were put into the App Store this week with ARKit support, it really hearkened back to an analogy Steve Jobs loved to make when OS X was first being developed. Building software, he opined, was a bit like building a skyscraper. There’s a certain number of floors that…

“Guys, it’s crunch time.”/p> You feel dead inside as you process the words. “We’re gonna need to be doing some late nights here for awhile. We need this done by July 16 or… “he trails off. “or it won’t be done by July 16,”you think to yourself. So one late night you’re eating pizza with…

There’s a lot of hysteria going on about cybersecurity as of late. Even President Trump knows the importance of “the cyber.”In theory, cybersecurity is really scary because there are a lot of moving parts involved and vulnerabilities are everywhere. However, a lot of recent high-profile breaches were a lot more old-fashioned in nature: someone got…

I’ve long been on the quest for the perfect pair of headphones suitable for using for work and pleasure. For the past year or so I’ve settled on Beats Studio Wireless headphones as my “good enough”headphones that get the job done because they offer two things I find essential: 1) they’re wireless, and 2) they…

If you’ve ever worked in the same office as me you may know that I have a sort of… obsession with keeping glass screens completely pristine. My favorite (and only) tool for this job is iKlear’s suite of cleaning products.  They’re the only thing that keeps my Apple stuff looking incredible, the stuff doesn’t smell…

Swift going open-source today is for sure exciting news, but we need to temper our expectations for what that means for the language. For sure it’s better to see an open-source Swift than a closed-source one, but merely being open-source isn’t a panacea for Swift. Lest you think I’m just being a pessimist, Objective-C is…

As I walked out out of the conference hall after DHH’s RailsConf keynote this morning, I felt this vibe that people are regarding him as out of touch with reality. Indeed, DHH did give off this sort of church sermon-like tone in his keynote, railing (pun sort of intended) against microservices and JS frameworks. For…

There are a ton of Bluetooth headphone options out there, but for some reason none of them work that well for me. Most are earbud-style and they always fall out of my ears (maybe that’s just how earbuds are). My previous Bluetooth headphones of choice were another pair of Plantronics headphones, the venerable PLT-BB903+ (just rolls…