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Month: September 2020
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Digital Heirlooms
If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you'll find that I take preserving our (my family's) digital memories and history seriously. However, if I were to die tomorrow, the app I made for my son and installed…
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Sample Code to Make your Mac App Open at Launch and How to Handle Global Keyboard Shortcuts
After my post last week about the updates I made to my audio app Ears, longtime internet buddy @macrael asked: @tylerhall Do you use libraries for the hotkey-setting UI or the start-on-launch stuff? I'm putting together my first Mac app…
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Listen Up
One of the best things that have come out of the pandemic for me has been my little Mac app, Ears. I had the idea for it and built it about a month into quarantine because I was in so…
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Don’t Let Experience Get in Your Way
A coworker and I have been working crazy hours since March on a huge new product feature - him on Android and myself on iOS. Quite frankly, it's maybe the best work we've done in our careers. And work I,…
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Surtainly Not
Eighteen hours later, I'm here to write about the dumb, little toy of an app I made this morning just for Big Sur. I honestly don't expect other people to use it. I'm not even sure if I'll keep using…