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I have a long-held suspicion of anything directed at me — especially anything commercial — that sells itself on its "experiential" qualities. I hate the word "immersive" in particular. "Here, let me waterboard you with my new web app! You're going to love it!" Basically, I'm...

Frame Based Animation with Sass

I wanted an easy way to create traditional animations, wherein each frame is a different drawing. I created this Sass @mixin which generates keyframe animation blocks for nth children, placing each of these "frames" in an animated sequence. Note the use of the steps(1) timing function…

I had this one friend at school. Let's call him Darren. Darren was a liar — a compulsive one — and boy did he tell some whoppers. Not "the world was created in one week" whoppers, but big ones nonetheless. One lie Darren would tell, at the age of 12, was that he had lost his...

Editor's note: This article has been submitted anonymously to me as the editor of geekmentalhelp.com — the website of the #geekmentalhelp campaign. Not everyone is in a position to "come out" as a sufferer of mental health problems, but they are still out there; members of o...

Tweet Library 2.6 has been “waiting for review” for 11 days now. I know Apple is busy, but these delays add up to a poor user experience for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus customers who want to get the most out of their new screens.

We finished watching The Roosevelts over the weekend. Fantastic series.

We are so lucky in the Mac and iOS developer community that there are a number of ways to be successful. The most common: Work for someone else at their company. Work for yourself as an indie developer. Work for clients as a contractor or consultant. Any mix of the above or...

When I migrated to WordPress and started a microblog section on this site, the RSS feeds didn’t transition very well. While the old feed continued to work, WordPress’s new default /feed URL returned both full posts and snippet posts.

I’ve fixed that today. Here are the official feeds on the site:

• /rss.xml: All the main posts (like the one you're reading right now), but none of the microblog-style snippet posts.
• /snippets.xml: Just the microblog posts. These don't have a title and will (eventually) be more common than the main posts, so you'll need to subscribe separately if you want to see them.
• /feed: Now redirects to /rss.xml.

If you want to see everything I write here, subscribe to both the main feed and the snippets feed. If you want to see only the longer posts, just keep the main feed. Thanks for reading!

Episode 156 of Core Intuition is out. Daniel and I discuss the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and what they might mean for the future of the iPhone product line.

I’m now convinced that Apple will have something like a 6C next year to maintain the 4-inch design. It will never have the best camera or longest battery life — that will be reserved for the larger phones — but there will be 3 fully supported sizes with some core modern features like Touch ID and Apple Pay.

We also talk about updating your app for the new screen sizes and iOS 8. My update to Tweet Library is still waiting for review, but hopefully will be approved soon.

NSDrinking is on for this Thursday night at The Ginger Man in Austin. Starts at 8pm, though I’ll be there closer to 9pm. All sizes of small and gigantic iPhones welcome!

Lunch at the new Fork and Taco on Burnet today. Really good. Only regret is that I didn’t order 3. Damon has a photo.

This week on Core Intuition we follow up on Apple news, then discuss the sale of Unread and all the new activity around RSS apps and services. It makes a good complement to some of my recent posts on microblogging.

Maybe I do need a day phone and a night phone. In the evenings I’ll use the too-big-for-pockets iPhone 6 Plus, and when leaving the house I’ll take… the 3.5-inch iPhone 4S. The future is on the extremes.

Brent Simmons points to my post on microblogs and asks: "Is the web we lost gone forever? Was it a brief golden age before the rise of Facebook and Twitter and The Algorithms of Engagement?" But he quickly follows with an alternate view: that it’s a blip and we’ll get ba...

Made it down to Houndstooth for Cafe Bedouins for the first time in months, maybe all year. Austin is getting a serious rain tonight, but it let up a little for the drive.

Great post by Gus Mueller on losing your way in a project: "Maybe you've been making foundational changes to your app. You've been spending time cleaning up your code, rewriting those hacks you've been wanting to fix for years now. Or you're targeting a new SDK and there'...

I should stop writing this blog post complaining about people who complain about U2. Lots of real work to do.

“If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.” — @notch on leaving Mojang

I’m working on a new project around timelines and microblogs. It consumes RSS feeds, so I’ve been wondering how strict to be when accepting posts. What does microblog mean, anyway? Wikipedia defines it this way: "Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form...

Fixed the RSS feeds. Turns out they were returning valid RSS but with an HTTP 404 header. After fighting with mod_rewrite, I ended up hacking the fix into WordPress.