A (micro)blog about programming, photography, and what not.
I’ve been spending some time diving into iOS development for reals during my spare time the last couple of months. In this time I’ve come to learn a lot of things about storyboards, other than that they are pretty awesome. Here are two things in particular. Table View Data Sources and Delegates In the very first issue of objc.io they discuss how to make your UITableViewControllers lighter by moving data sources and delegates to separate objects.
Read more...My “Mac App of the Week”-award (not actually a weekly occurence) goes to Paw! Paw makes it super easy to try and debug web APIs! You can save requests, group them, edit JSON in a nice way, easily exclude keys from JSON POST calls, view responses in different format, extend functionality with JavaScript. The list goes on. If you’ve ever used Postman for Chrome or if you’re hacking away in your terminal with Curl, give Paw a go.
Read more...A while back I saw the Trello CSS Guide swim around my Twitter timeline. I’ve been using that style of writing CSS ever since, I’ve even started to introduce it ever so slightly in the Bloglovin CSS (although converting a two year old project is not something you do in one go). I’ve found the guide to result in very maintainable CSS code. It’s even possible to make changes without being scared of breaking stuff, because it’s all so neatly namespaced.
Read more...I’ve made an effort recently to get better at getting things done. At work we already have a list of stuff to do but at home there’s an endless list of tasks that needs doing. It’s not uncommon to spend half of Saturday just “getting started”. Things have been on my Macs basically since it was launched. And on my iPhone since it was released on iOS a few years ago.
Read more...My collegue-for-another-month-and-a-half Jared Sinclair went to an Apple Store and tried on a few watches. I have been interested in the link bracelet and I’m not sure if his comments make me more or less interested in one. Although I think that the price of it has already made me more interested in the classic buckle. Most of all I just want Apple to announce a shipping date for Sweden! Come on guys!
Read more...While the title is a Game of Thrones reference this post is not about the fantastic show on HBO. No, the title is a hint about my future. I mean, it might be a bit dramatic. But I’ve come to embrace that side of my writing. Anyway, I was just failing for ways to begin this article. Now that it has begun I can concentrante on getting to the point.
Read more...That last post made me want to do a post similar to what Stefan Laketa has done and write a more comprehensive list of the podcasts I currently listen to. Mainly for my own sake to look back at in a year or so and see how the list has changed. Here we go, in order they currently appear in my podcast app: A Responsive Web Design Podcast — I’ll be honest.
Read more...Just wanted to write a quick post about one of my new favorite podcasts: Design Details! In which Brian Lovin and Bryn Jackson sit down and talk to fantastic designers. About design and life and what not. I’m not a designer myself, but it’s really enlightening to hear smart people talk about the subject. What makes this show special is that all interviews are done in person. Which I believe adds another dimension to the show, compared to podcasts where the interview is conducted over Skype or similar.
Read more...Great article by Alexandros Salazar: Neither are we engineers or scientists. We don’t design physical objects; we don’t care about gravity, electricity, or magnetism; evolutions is irrelevant to us; neuroscience is a mystery. We create in an abstract world that interacts, in points, with the concrete, but that is separate from it. We manipulate ideas; we transform data; we process knowledge; we present concepts. Under it all, no matter how we dress things up, what we do is invent new ways to move around zeros and ones.
Read more...Throughout 2014 I’ve noticed lots of activity in the JavaScript framework space. Tons of interesting things are happening. Ember is working on FastBoot which seems super interesting. And also in proximity to Ember is the work on HTMLBars. I’ve never spent that much time looking at Angular, and frankly its philosophies don’t seem to align with mine. Nonetheless, lots of activity all across the board. There’s also React.. and probably a million others that I’m currently blanking on.
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