Sam Soffes

At times, it felt like I wasn’t doing anything and 2025 wasn’t that exciting.

Compared to the past 2 years, it feels like I didn’t do very much this year.

2023 was a year of transition.

This year was a unique year.

Earlier this month, I spent 10 days in Cozumel, Mexico.

Yesterday was my thirty-third birthday.

When I was first starting my career, I was really concerned with doing things that mattered.

In January 2020, I went on a dive trip to Dumaguete, Philippines.

When I get into something, I really get into it.

It’s my birthday.

I’ve been using Homebrew on Apple Silicon for a few weeks now and it’s been working well.

What a year.

Today, my new 13-inch MacBook Pro arrived!

Recently, I added a snippet to my ~/.lldbinit for an easy way to print JSON in LLDB.

Today, I’m 31 years old.

Lately, I’ve really been getting into Home Assistant.

I’ve used a little utility called x for several years now.

Last week, I went diving in Cozumel, Mexico.

A few weeks ago, I took three weeks off.

The California Riding and Hiking Trail is a 37.6 mile trail in Joshua Tree National Park.

With iOS 13 coming out yesterday, there are a lot more folks are experiencing system-wide Dark Mode for the first time.

I took three weeks off to hike the Tahoe Rim Trail.

This week, I hiked the nothern section of the Lost Coast Trail with 3 friends.

I think not caring is impossible.

I want be great.

Lately, I’ve been walking to work.

So I just turned 30 today.

A friend recently complimented me on my work-life balance.

So I redid my blog again.

About 6 months ago, I tweeted that I want to be known for being positive.

A few of my coworkers and I say “Maximum Effort” to each other a lot.

I ordered a mechanical keyboard from WASD Keyboards awhile back.

I spend a lot of time in Terminal.

I’m working on a Mac app that has a color picker in it.

Most of my projects contain a Rakefile with some common tasks. rake is Ruby’s tool for running tasks.

I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why cancelOperation wasn’t getting called in an NSWindowController subclass.

Recently, I added some visual confirmation what something was shared with the system share sheet on iOS.

I recently made a video mentioning my new mic setup and got a few questions about it.

One of my favorite joke Twitter accounts is @wacnt.

Lately I've been using a script to set my apps’ bundle version.

Today, we open sourced a framework for iOS we've been using a ton internally called Static.

One of my coworkers shared What Colour Is It in our design Slack channel the other day.

I switched back to the old blog I was using before Roon (this blogging platform I used to run).

Today, I tweeted the following code while I was working on Whiskey: It just checks to see if all of the characters in a string are all the same.

Networking testing is hard.

Value types are one of my favorite things in Swift.

I sat down to work on Whiskey the other day and go super side tracked.

Yesterday, Redacted for Mac hit the App Store.

Recently, I replaced the headphones I've had for a long time with some new ones.

I spent awhile today trying to convert a regular expression from Ruby to NSRegularExpression.