Collin Donnell

I’ve recently done the work of changing my social media feeds on apps like Instagram and TikTok away from politics to things that make me happier.

Toward the end of last summer I started interviewing to become an engineering manager for a company located in Hobart, Tasmania.

Yesterday I decided to stop waiting and install macOS 26 Tahoe.

For most, LLMs are useful for two things.

Part of Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical book Roughing It talks about his visit to Salt Lake City in the 1860s.

For the last couple of weeks, since my post about Playdate Season 2, I’ve become obsessed with learning the Playdate SDK and learning to make games.

Something I’ve been told a lot is that I tend to pick things up faster than most.

Looking at my schedule, I’m going to have at least a couple months of availability for freelance iOS/macOS/Ruby work starting immediately.

If like me, you bought a Playdate when it came out, played some or all of the games in Playdate Season One, and then put it in a drawer, I strongly recommend checking out Season Two.

A situation I’ve found myself in twice now is wanting to hide a folder in Finder without making it a dotfile, which would also hide it when using ls.

If you ever desired a premium title casing experience (tongue in cheek), you can now sign up for an account on title.love and save your titles.

I put up a small title casing website called title.love built with Ruby on Rails.

Unlike some of my friends, I’m not the biggest fan of the kind of AI code completion that tries to write blocks of code for you as you type, but I was still kind of excited to see what Apple’s version of that in Xcode would look like and wanted to give it…

After seeing John Gruber’s post where he asked this question of ChatGPT, I decided to give it a shot.

At this point, I am primarily working in SwiftUI.

Here’s a simple function I wrote for the fish shell to show the current git branch name in the titlebar, along with an asterisk if there are any local changes. function fish_title # Show Git branch if inside a repo if git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tr…

Listen — it’s not that I don’t want to use Vim keybindings.

I wrote myself this small template as a starting place for when I’m writing shell scripts.

Every new editor makes it harder to write extensions for than the last.

I know it’s not safe and goes against the whole ethos of Swift, but after having worked a lot in Ruby, being able to generate methods at runtime is a killer feature, and I miss it dearly.