With rumors swirling about a bigger iPhone 6, I figured I’d touch on them (haha, puns). A few years ago, I thought the idea of a larger iPhone would be something I disliked. With my small-ish hands, even the iPhone 5’s 4 inch screen is too large for me to reach the back button in the top left corner of the screen with one hand.
But now, since iOS 7, I don’t fear a bigger phone, I would even welcome one. Continue Reading →
I’ve been doing Objective-C for almost 5 years (woo!), so at this point I think I have a better understanding than most of Apple’s motivations and intentions, with relation to building the language.
That said, recently I’ve been loving working with Go, and there’s a few reasons for that. Continue Reading →
It's short notice, but I’m giving a talk Stony Brook University tonight about How Startups Fail. So if you find yourself in the middle of… Continue Reading →
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There's one company I've got my eye on in this new year. I don't necessarily expect them to succeed or fail, but do think that this will be a pivotal year in their history. Continue Reading →
Being the financial capital world means that people are wary of giving money to stupid ideas. Ok, ok, less wary, but it still happens. But New York is very grounded with respect to technology, and that gives me [some] confidence in the ideas that are being funded here. Continue Reading →
Last year I spent a lot of time gathering pieces, and in 2014 I'd like to put them together. Continue Reading →
Eat as much as you can tonight so you can make your New Years resolution to lose weight easier! Continue Reading →
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 →