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post Hot take on AI tools 2026-11-04
review Grit by Angela Duckworth 2026-09-23
review Endure by Alex Hutchinson 2025-09-11
talk An Elixir Savannah Modem Safari 2025-09-10
talk How Fellowes Array uses Nerves 2025-05-14
talk ROAR for Good on the Philly Maker Faire Podcast 2021-12-13
post History of Flash 2018-02-11
post Daisy Sensor BLE API Part 1 2017-08-27
post The tech below the surface 2016-10-08
talk Bindings, the Best Code is the Code Not Written 2016-07-22 ▤ Slides
post Bindings, the Best Code is the Code Not Written 2016-07-22
talk Apple CoreBluetooth 2015-11-22 ▤ Slides
post CoreBluetooth Class Summary 2015-11-22
talk Smalltalk 2015-09-22 ▤ Slides
post Smalltalk - What it is and how it influenced Apple software development for the last 35 yrs? 2015-09-22
talk IB_Designable and MVC 2014 ▤ Slides
talk iOS AppDelegate Timeline 2013-04-13 ▤ Slides
post iOS AppDelegate Timeline 2013-04-13
post Fun with auto layout 2012-12-08
cv NMR Pulse Programmer Interface 1991
cv Digital waveform synthesizer for music 1980
project It's a Theremin! 1975-11-01

2026
- post Hot take on AI tools 2026-11-04
  It’s about the output not the ingredients
- review Grit by Angela Duckworth 2026-09-23
  THE POWER of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE
2025
- review Endure by Alex Hutchinson 2025-09-11
  Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
- talk An Elixir Savannah Modem Safari 2025-09-10
- talk How Fellowes Array uses Nerves 2025-05-14
2021
- talk ROAR for Good on the Philly Maker Faire Podcast 2021-12-13
  Rich Nelson and Taun Chapman from Roar for Good talk with the Philly Maker Faire Podcast (17 min).
2018
- post History of Flash 2018-02-11
  Many of the sites hosting this history of flash are gone. I have copied it here so it will not disappear.
2017
- post Daisy Sensor BLE API Part 1 2017-08-27
  An Overview of the Daisy Sensor Bluetooth Low Energy API and specification.
2016
- post The tech below the surface 2016-10-08
  An iOS implementation of a touch interactive Lindenmayer system fractal generator. The only iOS L-System generator which lets the user drag and drop graphic rule tiles to create new interesting fractals. Combines highly optimized C code, image filters and motion sensing and custom view transitions.
- talk Bindings, the Best Code is the Code Not Written 2016-07-22 ▤ Slides
- post Bindings, the Best Code is the Code Not Written 2016-07-22
  Using Cocoa bindings reduces the glue code you once had to write to connect a view to its underlying model.
2015
- talk Apple CoreBluetooth 2015-11-22 ▤ Slides
- post CoreBluetooth Class Summary 2015-11-22
  A visual layout of all the iOS CoreBluetooth classes and their relationships.
- talk Smalltalk 2015-09-22 ▤ Slides
- post Smalltalk - What it is and how it influenced Apple software development for the last 35 yrs? 2015-09-22
  A focus on the technical aspects of Smalltalk with a live demo of a modern Smalltalk system showing how Smalltalk removes many of the pain points programmers experience everyday
2014
- talk IB_Designable and MVC ▤ Slides
2013
- talk iOS AppDelegate Timeline 2013-04-13 ▤ Slides
- post iOS AppDelegate Timeline 2013-04-13
  A visual diagram of app delegate callback sequence for iOS applications.
2012
- post Fun with auto layout 2012-12-08
  Fun in the sense of `great difficulties and mysteries.`
1991
- cv NMR Pulse Programmer Interface
1980
- cv Digital waveform synthesizer for music
1975
- project It's a Theremin! 1975-11-01

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