Journal

Writing about my projects, Swift, software, user experience, privacy, and sometimes I link to stuff I find on the internet.

2024

06/03

Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

28/02

Airfoil

26/02

SwiftData, pre-seed database

20/02

Polyglot Programmer and Lack of Unicorns

14/02

No longer making Quiet open source

12/02

A 2024 plea for lean software

31/01

Quiet 4.2 - new app icon and visionOS support

25/01

Changes from Apple for the European Union

24/01

The Mac is 40 years old

18/01

Writing HTML with HTMLKit in Swift

16/01

Swift DSL for HTML

11/01

Making this website in Swift - part 2

08/01

Making this website in Swift - part 1

05/01

Making Quiet open source

01/01

Plans for 2024

2023

31/12

TED Talks of 2023

30/06

My App Store Screenshots Flow

08/06

Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem

07/06

I am happy with TipKit

06/06

On Device Machine Learning

20/05

Why not Flutter?

17/05

Personal Voice

10/05

Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

02/05

Have an iPhone again

29/04

Do not Run Servers

26/04

Quiet 4.1

19/04

Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers

18/04

Offline experience of apps

30/03

Getting an entitlement for Family Controls (Distribution)

29/03

Bicycle

23/03

Case against the cloud

04/03

Restructured website

23/02

Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic

15/02

Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help

02/02

Comments rule in Quiet

01/02

Notifications rule in Quiet

31/01

Newsletter rule in Quiet

30/01

'Relevant Content' rule in Quiet

27/01

Chatbots rule in Quiet

26/01

Share Buttons rule in Quiet

20/01

RIP Third-Party Twitter Apps

19/01

Quiet 4.0 and a commitment

17/01

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

13/01

Your own personal website

10/01

The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

07/01

20 years of Safari

06/01

Using RSS feeds

04/01

Build by Tony Fadell

03/01

Being more positive

2022

31/12

TED Talks of 2022

29/12

What is a Wildcard Person?

21/12

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

14/12

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

23/11

Sync podcasts to iPod

09/11

System Fonts CSS

08/11

Permission request guidelines

01/11

Hello World!

31/10

Baraye

20/10

Sound

18/06

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

06/05

Mechanical Watch

01/05

Sunsetting Quiet

21/01

GPS

2021

31/12

TED Talks of 2021

03/11

Curves and Surfaces

01/10

Sunsetting SecKey

29/07

Naval Architecture

24/06

I do not have a smartphone

20/05

Celebrating five years of Quiet, and a note on our exciting future

14/05

How Quiet Network Filter works

01/05

Internal Combustion Engine

28/01

SecKey 2.0

2020

31/12

TED Talks of 2020

11/12

Cameras and Lenses

21/11

Apple Silicon Support

04/07

Lights and Shadows

25/04

SecKey moving to Universal Purchases

23/04

Quiet moving to Universal Purchases

28/03

I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

15/02

Gears

11/01

The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma

2019

31/12

TED Talks of 2019

19/12

Tesseract

19/10

Earth and Sun

26/07

Alpha Compositing

30/04

Privacy and User Experience

21/02

Color Spaces

04/01

Exposing Floating Point

2018

31/12

TED Talks of 2018

28/11

The User Experience of Chatbots

01/11

It is time to leave the Facebook universe!

12/08

Experience Rot

23/03

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

2017

31/12

TED Talks of 2017

2016

31/12

TED Talks of 2016

27/12

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

05/01

Why I developed Fletta?

03/01

The Website Obesity Crisis

2015

31/12

TED Talks of 2015

25/09

What Happens Next Will Amaze You

28/07

The Internet With A Human Face

15/07

Kill all browser plugins

27/03

About labels and icons

01/01

Why I stopped using Facebook

2014

31/12

TED Talks of 2014

25/05

Introvert in business

2013

31/12

TED Talks of 2013

2012

31/12

TED Talks of 2012

23/06

Quiet by Susan Cain

04/06

Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital Conference

2011

31/12

TED Talks of 2011

06/10

Steve Jobs has passed away

06/05

100 Things You Should Know About People

2010

31/12

TED Talks of 2010

2009

31/12

TED Talks of 2009

28/01

The $300 Million Button

2008

31/12

TED Talks of 2008

15/09

Zebra Striping

2007

31/12

TED Talks of 2007

09/11

A Story of Surveillance

14/09

iPhone orientation detection (JavaScript)

22/08

Validating email addresses is hard

2006

31/12

TED Talks of 2006

03/05