Sam Soffes

There is a world out there.

I've been thinking about making this Ruby gem for awhile.

The wonder folks at SuperConf asked me to come to warm Miami and give a talk.

Cheddar for Mac recently came out.

One of my favorite quotes: Real artists ship. — Steve Jobs Today I shipped Cheddar for Mac.

Adam Stacoviak was kind enough to have me on Founders Talk for a third time!

This is a story about the last 3 months of my life.

I sold all of my stuff when I started Nothing Magical and work on Cheddar.

Alex Arena was kind enough to have me on the first episode of A Good Talk Show.

Recently, I released a Cheddar for Mac beta.

There is a great app called ResolutionTab on the Mac App Store that lets you toggle Retina graphics.

Tim Smith was gracious enough to have me on The East Wing.

If you haven't heard, there is this new social network called App.net.

Adam Stacoviak was kind enough to have me on Founders Talk again!

Update: I've since adjusted my rate to $300/hr since I wanted to start taking clients.

I had the amazing privilege of being on Founders Talk with Adam Stacoviak.

Cheddar uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) a lot.

The awesome guys over at The Tech Block had me on their podcast this week.

If you want to learn something, just start doing whatever you want to learn.

Growing up, I always told my mom that I wanted to retire* at age 25.

I was just talking with my good friend, Matt Grimm.

I'm really bummed today.

My first experience with the Android on the Nexus 7.

So, tech doesn't matter.

I recently had the honor of being on Founders Talk.

Answered a question on Quora about Cheddar.

The first few days of the Cheddar launch was rough.

I've been doing iOS since the day it was announced.

Just started chaining my bio on social networks to this: Developer & Designer at Nothing Magical.

You know what really grinds my gears?

Microsoft just bought Yammer for $1.2 billion.

Part of being an engineer (especially in San Francisco) is getting recruiter emails.

Someone recently pointed out that Cheddar doesn't support Emoji that well.

Lots of people ask where to begin learning iOS.

There's a lot of people using responsive CSS grid systems these days.

The number of people that talk to me only when they want something is decently high.

When I left my last job a few months ago, I decided to simplify.

This is really amazing to hear.

Acrylic always impresses.

Panic just released their Coda 2 teaser site.

CSS variables were just added to WebKit.

Facebook's IPO was today.

Looks like Google got tired of us using Wikipedia.

Ruby just got support for Native Client.

Chris Coyier from CSS Tricks compares LESS to SASS in the most fair post I've seen.

There are tons of pull to refresh views for iOS on GitHub.

Who needs a wristband for an iPod nano when you can just implant magnets?

The balance between shipping and perfecting the details is what makes things great.

Zendesk has a really amazing careers video.

I've been working on Cheddar full time for a month and a half now.