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Live-ish glucose data on Apple Watch
Since I was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago, one of my best coping mechanisms has been to lean into it by using it as an excuse to play around with gadgets to track it. And lest you think that’s a waste of time, it’s really effective! There is a direct relationship between how…
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A new WWDC
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…
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It’s Time to Allow Sideloading iOS Apps
Apple’s firm rejection of letting Hey’s iOS app in the App Store is just the latest in over a decade of controversy over the rules and restrictions Apple puts on App Store apps. I’m sick of having to keep calling on Apple to reverse some stupid App Store policy decision every several months. Let’s eliminate…
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Tech’s lip service to racial injustice
As protests of police violence continue in the US we’re beginning to see the steady trickle of large tech companies posting to social media about the events in solidarity. These companies only started putting out statements after massive civil unrest started to form. George Floyd was killed May 25. The next day footage of his…
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Default values for hashes in Ruby
I was recently working on some code that involved hashes of arrays. As I was reading through some behaviors of Hash in the Ruby docs, I was delighted to see that you could pass an object to Hash.new and it would be the default value returned when you tried accessing a key in a hash…
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Channeled Procrastination
This was originally published on Carbon Five’s blog  I procrastinate. In high school it was a huge issue for me, because as a high schooler I was still inexperienced at it. I frequently found myself in last-minute mode, moving swiftly from one self-induced crisis to another. College wasn’t any better. The assignments were more…
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Sweat The Small Stuff
If you’re looking for resources for my RubyConf talk Sweat the Small Stuff, you can find them at Sweat the Small Stuff – Resources
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ARKit and the taller skyscraper
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…
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You Don’t Need To Be First
“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…
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Aaron’s Simple Guide To Security
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…