I missed using Tweetbot since switching to Mastodon. Great to be able to use @ivory@tapbots.social now that it has hit the App Store.
Somewhat ironically, now that I’m working full-time again, I’ve become quicker at responding to support email for personal apps. Not because I have more time (I don’t), but because of changes I’ve made out of necessity.
The biggest help has been setting up an online knowledge base. Now if a question comes in that isn’t documented, the response first gets added to the website, and then a link is sent to the user. Subsequent responses are much quicker now. Wish I would have done this years ago.
Bummed that the Bills’ season ended today. Glad to see the 9ers are still in it though.
18 years ago I started my own company, Gaucho Software. I’ve created my own apps, like Seasonality which has been written about in publications like the New York Times. I’ve also worked on contract-based jobs including the NCAA March Madness app, which won an Emmy. It has been a great ride, but recently I’ve been feeling like it’s time for a change.
Today I re-joined the corporate world and started a new full time position as a Senior Software Engineer at Doximity. I’ll be working on their iOS app for healthcare professionals. I’m excited to spend the next phase of my career helping make healthcare better.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
I’m continually impressed with the Pro-100. It was bundled free with a DSLR I bought years ago. I’ve printed a ton of borderless 13×19 photos on it, and the print quality and longevity have been really good.
I’ve never had an ink cartridge dry out if I don’t use it for a few months, which I can’t say about any other inkjet I’ve owned. The cost of the ink is the only drawback, but compared with the rising cost of prints that’s less of an issue these days.
Sent some last-minute holiday prints to Walgreens, because an order from Adorama’s Printique or Bay Photo wouldn’t arrive in time. Half of them were ruined by the color correction Walgreens does while printing.
Ended up printing them on the Canon Pixma Pro-100 we have here at home and they turned out much nicer.
Getting boosted…
Took my daughters (9 and 12) to a Today at Apple session called Code Your First App. They loved it! Starts with a SwiftUI tab bar demo app in Swift Playgrounds and they spend an hour customizing and adding features. This isn’t the first time they’ve coded in Swift, but to see their eyes light up as their code change is updated on the canvas is priceless.
I used Undo Send in Mail for the first time just now. It’s not something I’ll use often, but it’s nice to have the option.
This past week has been full of ups and downs. It’s been emotionally draining. Here’s hoping some loose ends get wrapped up next week.
Flight Simulator Standard Edition is 50% off at Target for Black Friday. Couldn’t resist picking it up. See you in the virtual skies…
I was wondering why my IPsec VPN was so slow between two endpoints running pfSense. Ended up changing the MSS cap from the default 1400 down to 1350 and now I’m getting 10x the bandwidth.
So great to see lots of hobby posts on Mastodon and not so many political posts. It’s a breath of fresh air.
It’s funny seeing all the new Mastodon apps, just like the first few years of Twitter.
Somehow I only learned of The Composable Architecture a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why I hadn’t seen anything about it before. Making my way through a tutorial and I’m generally impressed. I could see myself using it in a future project.
So the question is: what new way will elon find to ruin Twitter over the weekend?
The new AMD Epyc 9664 is a beast!
Today marks 20 years since I first publicly released XRG. It continues to be the first app I install on a new Mac, and I still enjoy improving it after all these years…
https://www.starcoder.com/wordpress/2022/10/20-years-of-xrg/
There’s a lot of things I’ll miss about California. This is not one of them…
