Evomail’s Privacy Policy

Nov 9, 2013 | 2 minute read

As I switched over from Gmail to Fastmail.fm, I was looking for a mail client to replace my beloved Mailbox on iOS. I would have loved to continued using it, but it only supports Gmail, and not regular IMAP, so I needed a new client. Since I now have come to rely on the snooze and reminder features that Mailbox offers, I wanted to find an app that best matched that experience.

My reasons for switching from Gmail to Fastmail are similar to most, the whole privacy/advertisement debate that most in the tech industry pretend to care about most of the time, and some few paranoid folks like me actually think of. As a result, before deciding on which mail app to switch over to, I carefully read through the privacy policies of each application. I understood that in all likelihood my data would now be stored on someone other than Fastmail’s servers, and wanted to see if anyone had any alternatives.

I came to one that struck me as reasonable enough to trust, and that was Evomail. From their terms of use, I found two sections titled Caching and Deleting Data. Continue Reading →

End of a Chair-a

Aug 18, 2013 | 1 minute read

Sophomore year of college, my friend Mike has an idea to build new chairs. Not just any seats though, take the chairs out of a 1985 Pontiac Fiero, and make regular desk chairs out of them. Being sophomoric, I have no reasonable objection, so he starts scouring Craigslist. We find a guy in Jersey selling two Fiero seats and decided to drive out there. Continue Reading →

Not Done

Aug 6, 2013 | 1 minute read

We’re not done, but the new Done Not Done, coded by yours truly, is up in the App Store. An app to keep track of the movies you’ve seen, music you’ve listened to, and books you’ve read, and for all the things you want to do.

It’s getting some much needed performance love before we resubmit (the whole thing went from nothing to done in 6 weeks).

More coming soon, but go and get it. Continue Reading →

“Friends”

Jun 30, 2013 | 4 minute read

Update: I quit using Facebook altogether about a year after this post was written. I really enjoyed using Facebook as described below, the product was actually quite pleasant, but it didn't provide me with enough value to overcome the moral issues associated with the company.

I also wrote about how I stay in touch with friends, and how it's served me better than Facebook.

My primary motivations for unfriending 360 Facebook friends was pretty simple; I just didn’t like to be on Facebook anymore. I posted three times in the last year. When I released an Unmentionables, I wanted to take advantage of social. When I wanted to put something on Bondsy for my entire network to see, more social pressure. And of course, to put up a picture of me wearing a sombrero. I didn’t care about the day to day particulars from most of the people I was friends with, and every time I went on it made me feel apathetic towards Facebook. It’s silly for me to be paying for the mistakes that a 16-year old version of me made.

It’s been about 3 weeks, and so far, I like Facebook again. Continue Reading →

A Long Overdue Postmortem

Jun 14, 2013 | 2 minute read

Last night I pulled the first application that I ever wrote from the App Store.

Craig Glaser and I (mostly Craig) came up with the idea of creating heat maps for players in MLB. We thought it would be a cool visualization, and were convinced we could sell thousands of copies and be App Store rich.

I took to writing it. I took to rewriting it. I took to rewriting what I rewrote, only to discover, hm, I’m not a very good programmer. Objective-C being so foreign didn’t help… But in the end, it got done. Continue Reading →

Jarring

Jun 11, 2013 | 1 minute read

  • Based on beta 1 of iOS 7 (so take it with a grain of salt): from skeumorphic to schizophrenic.

  • Lack of visual distinction between a button and a label is confusing so far.

  • So is how thin the fonts are, making it hard to read. I am surprised they didn’t go with Avenir as their system font. Continue Reading →

WWDC 2013 Prediction

Jun 9, 2013 | 1 minute read

I’m only going to make one prediction for WWDC this year, and it’s one that probably won’t be verifiable for a bit of time. With that in mind, I’ll just leave this here. Continue Reading →

4 Years Ago

Apr 29, 2013 | 1 minute read

Apparently 4 years ago today I decided to try my hand at Objective-C.