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Month: March 2020

  • # articleMar 14, 2020· 6 min

    DefaultApp

    <p>DefaultApp is an open source starting point – a template. I maintained it in Objective-C for over a decade before finally porting it to Swift in 2018. Anytime I start a new app – big or small, whether or not it's something I plan on releasing publicly or if it's just a small prototype or utility app I'm building for myself – I start with this project.</p> <p>With DefaultApp I can go from initial idea to writing actual code in thirty seconds.</p> <p>That said, I would't use this as the basis for a billion dollar corporation's enterprise app. Or with a team of "100 engineers" "solving hard problems". But if you're a one-person development shop or a team of just two or three engineers building a typical macOS shoebox or document based app? Please take a look.</p>

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  • # articleMar 7, 2020· 4 min

    Followup: Comparing my Current B2 Storage Costs against Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

    <p>This is a quick followup to my post from this week about backing up my family's photos and home videos with Google Photos and B2. A reader asked why I use B2 over Amazon's cheaper S3 Glacier alternative. I started to reply directly, but then like everything I write, it kept growing. And then I thought my answer might be interesting to others as well. So, here you go…</p>

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  • # articleMar 6, 2020· 26 min

    My Family’s Photo and Video Library Backup Strategy in 2020 – Plus a Fun Anecdote I’ve Never Told Before

    <p>Two of the topics I've written about the most on this blog are backing up your data and photography – not professional, artsy photography, but more in the sense of your family's photo and home video library. I'm a huge nerd for these topics. Part of the reason for that is my own obsessive personality traits, but also because of my affinity for nostalgia and history. My life, to a certain degree, is documented through the literal data I've created over the years. And the lives of the people I love are likewise documented through the digital archives I keep. So when those two topics intersect, holy cow do I ever proudly fly my geek flag.</p>

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