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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Apparently 4 years ago today I decided to try my hand at Objective-C.
Gonna work on an iPhone app, hopefully I can master the fine ways of Objective C. Continue Reading →
— Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) April 29, 2009
I spent a good amount of time over the weekend reading Aaron Swartz’s blog, shortly after his untimely passing. In short, I never new him, and so I don’t want to rehash everything that’s been said, but judging by what I’ve read, he was a brilliant person. So I leave you with a few blog entries that I found particularly insightful, interesting, and helpful. Some are longer, some are shorter, but I’d recommend giving them all a read. Continue Reading →
It’s not their fault.
tldr; It sucks that iOS apps can’t update in the background, but I get why Apple does this. No biggie, it would just make a lot of apps better, but at the cost of thinking about battery consumption.
P.S. You can’t read 200 words, really? Continue Reading →
I posed a question earlier today about Apple’s new iPad mini pricing. Is there anyone who would have bought the iPad at 329? My guess is no. There are reasons such as brand/price perception, the supposed $299 psychological barrier, and more that I don’t want to really cover, so I’ll pose it as a simple mathematical statement. Continue Reading →