Technicat

Topic

Software

Software development

Markdown

Displaying styled text in an iOS app has always been a hassle, resorting either to an HTML view or cramming together attributed text, but now there's a more convenient option, markdown support provided by iOS 15. And now I have a reason to upgrade my Talk Dim Sum app requirement

The Road to iOS 15

This has got to be a personal record – I have two updates for the same app, Talk Dim Sum, released on the App Store in the same day, I suspect because I included the phrase "fixes for iOS 15" in the release notes. The first update replaced all the action

The Mystery of the Play Button that Acts as a Back Button

Even just cruising in maintenance mode, minding your own business, bugs just show up. This week I noticed a weird one – hitting the Play button in the iOS version of my Talk Dim Sum app would pop back to the parent page, acting like a Back button. But only when

Canceling Stock

Somehow I've managed to survive self-employed (otherwise known as unemployed, freelancing, taking time off, and entrepreneurship) for nearly twenty years, a stint far longer than my salaried career. This despite long stretches of low revenue (otherwise known as app sales), whch I'd like to credit to my financial acumen, but

Vegas Ventures

All during this pandemic, I've been thinking Las Vegas is missing out on the move to remote work. I'm not suggesting they go as far as to pay people to move here, like Tulsa, but take me for example: I sold my condo in California, got a much cheaper (and

Redhead by the Side of the Road

Lately I've begun to worry that I can no longer binge-read a book. I used to devour a good spy thriller or sci-fi story in one night, before showing up at work bleary-eyed. Now I have stacks of partially-read books – graphic novels, fiction, books on coffee, philosophy (seems related, somehow)

More Formatting in Swift

A while ago, I blogged that I started using Swimat to format my Swift code. But recently, I stumbled upon SwiftFormat (because I'm using some old Objective-C packages from Nick Lockwood and browsed his other projects), and now I'm using that. It's an easy install using brew (also Cocoapods and

My GameDev Career

I've been cleaning up my github repos and found this slide presentation of my gamedev career I made for some students last year. I hope it was inspiring!

Fixing the Simulator

Sure, all these IDEs are nice, but sometimes you still have to break out a text editor and edit some files. Case in point, I don't run the Xcode simulator much because it makes my MacBook gasp and wheeze, even the one I bought last summer (just before the M1

Formatting Swift

One thing I enjoy about Flutter development is escaping the confines of Xcode. In particular, Visual Studio Code and your formatting extensions, where have you been all my life? In Xcode, I didn't even know about Control-I, so I've been manually indenting like I'm still typing BASIC code on my