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AI can generate a lot of code. It cannot run your database responsibly.
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Apple Music - initial impressions
Apple Music was released today, and just like the entire internet west of Androidia, I updated my devices so I could try it out. Here are my initial impressions. They will surely be moderated with time.
Well Tempered Chronicles - Implementation
Implementation
Well Tempered Chronicles - Design
Design
Well Tempered Chronicles - Audio Frameworks
Audio Frameworks
Well Tempered Chronicles - Well Tempered 1.0
This is the Well Tempered Chronicles, a behind the scenes look at the development and continued life of my tuner for the iPhone and iPad, Well Tempered.
iPad on the Danish westcoast
Dear Neil,
Teach-a-million
My friend David has long podered how to change the world. Everyone agrees that education is the key to peace and less poverty. But how can we give more of the poor an education?
iOS apps on the Macbook Air 12” (2015 model)?
I think someone at Apple said “Wouldn’t it be cool if iOS apps could run on OS X”? And I think what we get is the Macbook Air 12” (2015 model). Here is why I think so:
Praising Amazons Customer Service
Amazon's customer service was really great to me! My wife and I had bought a nice christmas present for my father, a book he'd long wanted, printed in 1976. We couldn't find it half-decently priced new copy in Europe, but we found one through Amazon in the US. Order placed, postage charges being as much as the book, we waited for it to arrive. But when it did, it was clearly used. Not badly used at all, but a couple of ear marks, pencil lines in the book and... sigarette marks on the cover. Disappointed we took pictures of it, and contacted Amazon.
Carthage
Open source code is legacy, buggy code. Closed source code is often worse, having had fewer eyes inspecting it. Including it in my projects would be a really bad idea if it wasn't for that (1) they have spent time thinking about how to solve problems I have and (2) my code is at least as buggy and is going to be legacy code in just a few hours, with few people probably ever reading it again. With these odds, it's no wonder that 80% of my time as a developer is debugging code.