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A story over at the CloudFlare blog states that it estimates 94% of Tor requests could be classed as “malicious”, in that it involves automated systems scraping email addresses for spam, testing for vulnerabilities etc.

So at Apple’s (final) Town Hall event they announced CareKit, which looks pretty interesting, although details are kinda scarce beyond their press kit so far, with release being “Spring 2016” so I guess sometime before WWDC.

This morning my 1.1 update for Repeat got approved on the store, which brings some basic improvements to interaction with tasks, a much nicer visual for repeat history as a calendar view, rather than as a simple list of events, the ratings system I wrote…

Some of the quality Role Playing Games in the Explore section of the iOS App Store.

Pond Scum Texture X (CC-BY 2.0) (Note that this is from the perspective of a consumer.

Back in 2014 (and earlier) there was a kerfuffle about the practice of apps being in your face with requests for reviews: Wil Shipley @ The Loop John Gruber and suggesting one star reviews as a response Marco Arment suggesting that a popup request for rev…

Becky Hansmeyer posted a couple of items recently on app pricing (and a followup) which I thought fit in with my thoughts on pricing pretty closely.

This morning I hit the release button on my holiday project, Repeat.

Since hitting Submit for Review for my side project app, I’ve been having an interesting time.

I tend to collect software.

This is a post about the process of developing and posting an app on the iOS App Store for the first time.

This has to be one of the best ads I’ve seen in a long time: Introducing Vector Networks.

As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working on an iOS app over the holidays.

Wired made a post in which the publication outlines what it is going to do about the ad-blocking situation.

As usual to keep myself sane during the Summer holidays I’ve been doing some coding on project ideas that have come up over the year.

I started writing the draft for this post back in December after attending a conference called Switching Tracks, which seemed to focus a lot on gamification and flipped learning approaches to education.

There has been a bunch of fuming about the web recently about the rumor of Apple removing the 3.5mm headphone jack from the next iteration of the iPhone (and presumably everything else).

I forgot to put this into the previous post about content blocking.

First of all, content blocking in iOS has a ways to go.

“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”

Since I got one of the original Pebbles which came out as a Kickstarter project I’ve been interested in the smart watch movement.

I got a RaspberryPi recently and have been wondering what to do with it.

A lot of what I think about seems to be sparked from podcasts lately.

Just a continuation of my admiration of useful changelogs in the iOS App Store.

I’ve written before about how I feel about trackpads on pretty much anything that isn’t made by Apple (spoiler: I hate them), which is why I have mixed feelings about the reports of all the multitouch stuff coming in with Windows 10 (link for an Ars Techn…

Since the July school holidays closely follow Apple’s WWDC this is usually when I feel motivated to sit down and have a crack at some of the programming projects that have built up in my todo list.

There has been a bit of a trend (if you can call it that - it’s mostly by one company: Facebook) of late when release app updates in the [Apple] App Store, but presumably it happens elsewhere too.

First of all, this post is not about charities or charitable donations.

Being an Apple nerd I’ve been following what’s been going on at WWDC this year as usual, which includes listening to a slew of (often repetitive) podcasts from people who are actually there.

One of the things which got me thinking about the previous post about teaching computing was a series of episodes of the Planet Money podcast.

I’ve been thinking a bit lately about the identity of Computing as a subject.

Every year TV news delights in informing everyone of the tragedies of deaths on our roads, adding to the tallies of state road death tolls and doing comparisons between states and years.

This year I changed my day job from working in a school where I took my beloved 13" MacBook Air in with me every day, to a school where we were provided with Microsoft Surface Pro 3s.

We were recently in Tasmania for a holiday and hired a car rather than relying on my dad to drive us everywhere, which meant that a lot of navigation was done via Google and Apple Maps (not sure if Apple Maps being rubbish is still a thing, but there was…

The day after I go and look at writing an operator to mimic ‘in’ in Python, I read a blog post on undocumented Swift functions and come across the ‘contains’ function, which does pretty much that (although it doesn’t work quite the same way for dicts and…

Like a whole bunch of people I was quite interested to learn about Apple’s introduction of their new language Swift, at their WWDC event this year.

I got around to updating (I say update and I mean totally rewrite) my twitter script this weekend to clear out all the manual cruft that made it so painful to use when I first wrote it.

(I’m going to prepend this with the premise that stuff like TeX has probably been able to do all this stuff for ages, but this is looking to do things in a more automated fashion.)