The Joy of Hack

We’ve all heard or seen the ads making claims like, “Download our scientific app and play our brain games!

I was pre-teen in the early 1980s.

Today’s post will be short and sweet.

I’ve hated running for ever.

Humans have been using rope as a tool for thousands of years, even before we started recording history.

I’ve been working out regularly since I was 16 years old.

Someone asked me if I wanted to work for them this morning.

We can watch football players literally kill each other for our entertainment.

It can be difficult to leave a job and start working at a new place, especially if you like where you work right now.

As I started planning what to write about for my 30 days posts, I realized that this isn’t the first time I’ve been exhorted to try something for 30 days.

Inspired by @jaimeejaimee and reminded by @bradheintz, I too will start a #30days writing experiment tomorrow.

When you have to execute SQL statements inside large loops, you may find that your app slows down considerably.

These are notes that I took while trying to find the optimal Apple Watch settings that maximize my battery life.

Last week at Yosemite by CocoaConf was one of the most memorable weeks of my life.

Three talks at the Yosemite by CocoaConf conference made me think about my relationship with Twitter and convinced me to switch from being a consumer of social media to a creator and a writer.

When I work on complex iOS apps, I like to diagram the complex relationships between classes and subsystems in OmniGraffle.

One of the best portraits I’ve taken is a picture that I took quite by accident as I was calibrating my camera for a future shot.

Travelling often gives you the opportunity to take unusual pictures of street scenes.

Zipping through the streets of Bangalore in an auto rickshaw.

When working with something dangerous, you must always ask yourself, “If the forces that are maintaining the current equilibrium give way, what’s the worst that can happen?”

Now that I’m starting a new iOS development project, I’m trying to have close-to-complete test coverage of critical parts of my code.

﷽ Was-salaatu was-salaam ala Rasoolillah.

When you’re a beginner learning a new skill, it’s okay to try to recreate the Masters’ works as practice (in private).

As an amateur photographer I’ve found it hard to find information on how to use external flashes with the Fuji X100S camera.

A recent post by Derek Parker introduced me to advisory locks in PostgreSQL.

The stupidity of this is mind-boggling.

I like how the rays of the sun reflected off the train.

Imagine, for a minute, that you’re an astronaut.

At today’s CocoaHeads meeting I gave a little demo of Sublime Text 3.

A Syrian fighter jet apparently dropped a napalm bomb on a school playground.

A handy wiki page that lists URL schemes being used by iOS apps is no longer being mantained.

I recently needed to issue several dozen HTTP DELETE REST API calls of the form http://www.example.com/blah/n where n was a sequential version number.

This photo was taken in ‘stealth’ mode: shooting from the hip, no audio, no display on the rear LCD.

First One of the features of Qur’an Memorizer, my first iOS app, is the ability to highlight a verse (ayah) when it’s tapped.

This is an Oak tree that I planted in my front yard about five years ago.

As an amateur photographer I like displaying my photos on my blog, especially when there are particularly interesting stories behind them.

After my recent Blitz Talk at SecondConf I had some great conversations with fellow attendees in the meal lines and around the beverage table.

Here are the slides and links from my recent Blitz Talk on password security at SecondConf.

The 2011 MacBook Air is my primary machine now.

The Lower Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona is a place of breathtaking beauty.

This is a bend of the Colorado River located near Page, Arizona.

“Cloud Gate” - fondly known as The Bean.

Now that I’ve been using Pinboard for a while, I find myself having to search for one bookmark or another quite often.

As you’ve probably noticed I’ve modified my Octopress installation so the color theme is light and minimalistic.

What follows was originally posted by me on my Facebook wall.

I love word games.

I attended the Glendale Heights SummerFest fireworks display last night.

In 2010 I made my own Wing Chun Kung Fu Wooden Dummy.

I recently needed to upgrade one of my machines to mod_perl 2.0.