Jamie Montgomerie’s World Wide Web Log

In this series of posts, I’m rescuing vintage microcontrollers from their decades-long purgatory in a drawer in my local makerspace.

In this series of posts, I’m rescuing vintage microcontrollers from their decades-long purgatory in a drawer in my local makerspace.

I recently joined my local makerspace, and one of the exciting1 things there is this shelf of electronic components, available for all members to use: I felt a bit like an archeologist going through these.

I went on a bit of a journey this week - moving our Pi-hole from its own dedicated device1 to a container on our home router.

[When I wrote this post, I used OpenBSD 7.7.

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Ten years ago, my wife Emily and I made two games: Coolson’s Artisanal Chocolate Alphabet for iPad, and Coolson’s Pocket Pack, for iPhone (and iPad).

This project is a little old, but now that I have some time, I thought it would be nice to write it up!

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m attempting to make a Dual Shock to Switch controller adapter.

In this series of posts, I’m going to (attempt to?

I find Extremely Linear Git History (GitHub) unreasonably amusing.

For over a year now, I’ve been using an MSI Prestige PS341WU as my main display.

The blog is back!

I removed Eucalyptus from sale today.

Editorial note: Yesterday, I sent a draft of this post to Mattt Thompson, the author of the article this is a reply to.

Coolson’s Artisanal Chocolate Alphabet, our iPad game, has been out for almost a month now!

What a week it’s been.

I open-sourced a little bit of, as I’ve been calling it on Twitter, “THE GAME” - that is, the game Em and I’ve been working on: “THIn”: Three easy ways to do things later in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch.

I wrote some key-value observing (KVO) and key-value binding (KVB) helper classes for iOS and Mac OS X.

I think that the idea, and it was almost taken as religion, is that once we got to the point where you could write web apps, and that web apps would run everywhere, that was some sort of end point in the continuum of how software evolved. […] Not everybod…

Google has acquired the development team that produces the excellent Mac and iPhone email app Sparrow.

I posted YACYAML, the Cocoa YAML parser/object archiver I’ve been working on for a little while to GitHub today.

It’s commonly held that iOS has no built in Base64 routines (a strange omission, if you ask me).

By all means, learn enough programming to put together a prototype and have a better perspective on hiring and managing engineers.

It’s painful, hard, and often time-consuming to restart when you’re already done, but you can’t argue with the results.

In which a method is presented for reliably building static libraries with subprojects in Xcode, and it is suggested that this method, combined with Git submodules or other similar mechanisms, provides the best way to share libraries, frameworks, or other…

Marco Arment has written a provoking article about Apple App store ratings.

“Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the ‘alternative vote’ system instead of the current ‘first past the post’ system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?”

I am wary that this blog is in danger of turning into “Gripes With Apple”, especially after last week’s article, so I thought twice about posting this.

I’d like to take a moment to talk about Apple’s new policy on paid ‘content’ in iOS applications.

Today, November 11th, is World Usability Day.

Spam is getting more and more targeted.

A couple of the guys I worked with via Missing Ink Studios on the first apps to use the Eucalyptus reading engine (including the Hitchhikers’s Guide To The Galaxy and Peter James apps) have started up their own web and mobile development company, “Webmoco…

In which a convenient method of using POSIX regular expressions from Objective-C is presented.

I usually shy away from discussing politics online, and but it looks like I opened a can of worms on myself on Twitter this morning after I said “A worthy petition, but I wish it were better worded” in response to this petition.

Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative.

Update The situation has now been resolved.

I think the sentiment expressed in this strip is the single main sapper of my productivity when coding.

John Gruber’s latest post, “Private”, calls Erica Sadun to task for her invention of a distinction between “private APIs” and “unpublished API’s”.

“The Application “Application Name” was not installed on the iPhone “iPhone Name” because it could not be verified.”

In which a semi-automated system for the versioning of iPhone applications is detailed.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.

In which a category allowing the creation of UIImages from Unicode characters, suitable for use as Tab Bar icons, is created, but a state of mild displeasure at the implementation of said category is engendered.

Em’s sewing machine has been in a state of disrepair since it arrived here in her suitcase from California.