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I previewed Arborist 1.2 last week and I’m happy to announce I just released it!

I woke up this morning to an email that I did not expect, Swift Talk from the guys at objc.io is ending its run at 500 episodes.

I’ve been hard at work on updates to Arborist and Baseplate recently and wanted to give a preview of what’s coming up.

I’ve been hard at work on some updates to my textbundle blog engine Maverick over the past couple of weeks: I’m working on adding a support section to my Taphouse website for Arborist and decided to take a crack at seeing how textbundles could work for th…

What a whirlwind the last week has been since I released Arborist.

TL;DR: My new app Arborist is now available for download and purchase!

I’ve been hard at work at a new Mac app called Arborist lately, and one of the key decisions has been how to monetize it.

This weekend has been quite the ordeal.

Updated to include the prompt that I used Over the years I’ve always been very impressed when I hear stories of developers building and shipping an app very quickly.

I love indie software.

I’ve started working on a new app as a side project and because WWDC was just a few weeks ago decided to play with some of the new APIs introduced – namely SwiftData.

Just under 2 years ago, after being laid off from Lyft, I got to rejoin Zulily.

I’ve been able to take time off from my normal duties at Zulily and learn something new.

One of the more confusing aspects of releasing iOS apps on the App Store has to be phased releases.

My first day at Lyft a few years ago delivered quite a shock: Our iOS repositories didn’t have Xcode projects checked in.

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been MacBook-free.

With Apple’s announcement last month of a processor transition from Intel CPUs to “Apple silicon” CPUs (please don’t let that be the real name for these things, Apple) we are entering a new phase for the Mac.

I’m officially off the market!

TL;DR: I got laid off last Wednesday and am on the job market for an iOS developer job.

There’s a report that came out this week from Bloomberg that says Apple is “considering” the idea of allowing users to pick third-party apps to be their default for things like email, music, and web browsing.