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  • 2026.01.30

    Selling shovels

    You’ve no doubt seen the hype about OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot, formerly known as Clawdbot.

    ai
  • 2026.01.29

    Embracing imperfection with commonplace books

    I’ve always been someone that has been a bit of a perfectionist and over thought my own processes for achieving goals. It’s made it hard to ship blog posts r...

    notesproductivity
  • 2025.12.13

    swift-dependency-graph

    I’ve just open sourced a small tool called swift-dependency-graph. This was coded completely via copilot-cli, including publishing this blog post!

    swiftiosxcodetooling
  • 2025.08.31

    Demystifying Git

    This time last year, I gave a presentation internally at M&S, for our engineering community, called “Demystifying Git.” Rather than the usual how-to guid...

    gitslides
  • 2025.03.21

    A Custom GPT for OAuth & OIDC

    If you’ve ever felt lost navigating OAuth specs, or any IETF RFCs for that matter, you’re not alone. For the last few years, I’ve been working on an identity...

    oauthidentitychatgpt
  • 2024.02.22

    Accessing private GitHub repositories within GitHub Actions

    Generally, GitHub Actions is incredibly simple when interacting with private repositories, either through the GITHUB_TOKEN or through creation a Personal Acc...

    iosrubygithub-actions
  • 2022.06.17

    Automatic app version increments with Xcode Cloud using custom build scripts

    Using Swift to write custom build scripts in Xcode Cloud

    iosxcode
  • 2022.06.05

    Adding support for Apple App Site Association files to Jekyll

    It’s pretty common for an iOS app these days to support universal links, iCloud credentials, App Clips and other functionality related to the Associated Doma...

    ios
  • 2022.06.03

    Navigating Text Fields in SwiftUI

    As part of my recent development efforts on Altilium, I wanted to remove my dependency on using the SwiftUI-Introspect library to access the underlying UITex...

    swiftui
  • 2016.10.03

    iMessage Apps and Stickers

    With the release of iOS 10, iMessage Apps are here - the prospect of iMessage apps is innovative, interesting and powerful, and they are being undervalued.

  • 2015.04.04

    Peer-to-Peer Networking on Mobile

    Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking has become increasingly ubiquitous in today’s panoply of technology buzzwords. From the classic BitTorrent protocol, to modern ...

  • 2015.03.11

    ResearchKit

    ResearchKit is Apple’s latest philanthropic contribution to the technology world.

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