You can't throw a virtual stone in the dev world these days without hitting a hot take on AI coding tools. On one side, the hype machine is in overdrive, practically writing our obituaries as programmers. On the other, you've got the doom-and-gloom crowd painting a...
MSHub == FOSS Love?
It looks like the Octocat is out of the bag. Microsoft is acquiring Github for what one can only imagine is a few Brinks trucks of cash. There’s been quite a lot of response in the Linux and free software community already on this. One of Github’s primary rivals...
Code Journal 1.4.0 Update
I am Happy to announce that Code Journal 1.4 has just been released on the Mac App Store. We took special care to respond to your feedback both in terms of performance and of course new features. I am particulary fond of the new less wordy way we are naming and...
MDNetworking: My Little Networking Lib
Disclaimer: This is in no way a 1.0 codebase and I strongly recommend against you using this in production. Summary: MDNetworking is a small Apache 2.0 licensed Cocoa / Cocoa Touch library. It is intended to be suitable for use on iOS7+ and Mac OS X 10.8+ but it may...
Code Journal 1.3.4 Update
Code Journal 1.3.4 is now available on the Mac App Store for free. This update includes a number of small bug fixes. There are a lot of big changes coming to Code Journal over the next few months and I think it is really going to take the app in a great direction....
My Open Source Initiative
I’ve been looking at some of the older code I’ve had sitting on my various hard drives and Dropbox accounts and realised something: a lot of this code is not that novel. There is nothing wrong with it, but a lot of just solves problems that I find myself having to...
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