The Joy of Hack

I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I’m sorry now.

Adobe has released the source code for Photoshop 1.0

I agree.

What do you do when a programmer never picks up any JIRA Tickets?

It’s time for our first Family Camping Trip.

Every so often a Muslim friend contacts me saying they’re coming to visit Denver and would like to know which Halal restaurants they can visit.

There are times when I have to log into Linux systems that don’t have window managers.

I’m gonna have to blog about how I did this (later).

I have became that person who takes tons of pictures of his cat.

(AijazCC) ↩

I’ve been working on an app that requires users to upload data to a server, where the data is used to create machine learning models.

After exactly two long months of development, and just in time for Ramadan, I’m pleased to announce the public release of my latest app, QuranReflect This app allows you to read the Quran, write your own reflections on the verses that you’re reading and v…

I have a table in a relational database (PostgreSQL) that contains time intervals.

Sometimes the train called Opportunity slows down just enough to let you hop on—if you want—before speeding away.

After more than nine years on Twitter, I finally deactivated my account.

Last week I attended CocoaConf Chicago for the 6th year in a row.

This is a guest article I wrote for the newsletter of a friend of mine who’s an Estate Planner.

Many iOS apps today are clients of some sort.

Another in a series of posts documenting my process of updating an aging app.

Another in a series of posts documenting my process of updating an aging app.

It’s been more than three years, but I’m finally updating my most popular app, Qur’an Memorizer.

Earlier tonight I spoke at NSCoder Chicago about how to use jq to examine JSON data.

How many Chicago motifs can you find here?

Mark Frimston found out something very interesting about the local time in the UK at UNIX epoch 0.

If you walk too fast, you might miss them.

This is the first in a series of posts where I share the final screen of Letterpress games.

Several times in the past few months I have tried to add a post to this blog.

Well, it’s happened.

Last night, right before going to bed, I decided to play The Room 3.

Well, that was fun.

Mastering something can take time.

A few weeks ago, when my older two boys were getting ready to go off to college I was reminded of something I read online: Buy a toilet plunger before you need a toilet plunger.

A few minutes ago I zoomed in on a photograph that I had taken in April.

My family visited the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia last year.

I’d like to share with you the various tools that I’ve found work well for my iOS class.

If you’re a parent, you’ve either been through this, or will soon: At some point you stop being known by the neighbors by your own name, and start being identified by your kids’ names.

Some of you may not have room on your hard drive to back up your iPhone.

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have been posting different pictures of doors that I saw in Dublin.

As I child I read a lot of European stories like those from the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen.

Fourteen days in India.

I’d like to share with you the way I teach optionals in Swift.

Is it ever a bad idea to sign your name on good code that you write?

Different people have different gifts.

One of the most beautiful places I visited during my recent trip to Dublin, Ireland was the Trinity College Library.

I had been taking the same path to work for the past ten years.

Today’s post is a quick story.

The only certainty in life is that it has an end.

This is one of my favorite things about the Workout App on the Apple Watch: the ability to start a workout without having any specific goal in mind.

Remember what I said a few days ago about fitness?

This has been eating at me for the last 28 years.