Keep Instagram open to finish posting…
As long as I have to sit here for a few minutes using your wonderful multi-threaded software… can you at least show me some ads for products I’ve already bought?

Even this poor cockatiel is dozing off.
As long as I have to sit here for a few minutes using your wonderful multi-threaded software… can you at least show me some ads for products I’ve already bought?
Even this poor cockatiel is dozing off.
This story is important to me because it was the first software I ever wrote that shipped to more than just a few friends or colleagues. What started as some scripting turned into Cocoa development, which is not something I ever expected to find myself doing. It never became a …
I started school at a pretty exciting time in the history of computers. They were about to transition from being a tool for hobbyists, researchers, and the military to being something that could be brought into schools and even homes.
After finishing third grade, I took a summer …
Every year, there’s an announcement about new features and improvements in Siri. They generally consist of:
Easter eggs have been highly frowned upon at Apple for many decades now. Engineers would sneak them into products and sometimes fail to account for potential problems. An engineer (not at Apple) once inserted a seemingly harmless easter egg into an app that would reveal the names of everyone on …
Let’s say I have an upcoming event in Calendar. The location was snagged from my Contacts.
Now I’m driving in my car, and Siri wants to remind me of the event. After telling me the event’s name and time, Siri also tells me the address. Am I supposed to pull …
Anyone that has worked in software quality assurance (QA) will tell you it’s often a frustrating and thankless job. A former Association for Software Testing president pegs the average QA engineer career at only four years. The linked article offers some advice for trying to retain good QA talent, …