Category: software development

Fun with Wordle

I put together an app to play Wordle and to use to research various aspects of the game, including best starting words. I put this little non-technical video together as an experiment: It’s a learning experience making these videos. The…

The dine safely app for our pandemic times

I built a little app to check and grade the COVID-19 Safety Measures of our favorite dining establishments. You can check it out at: https://dinesafely.org The front-end is pretty much a bare-bones material ui react app interface initially forked from:…

A Fresh Look at PHP

I never have been an active PHP developer. I’ve worked with it on the occasions I’ve had to, like hacking WordPress, or for smaller quick and dirty projects, but had never seriously considered the language for anything beyond that. I…

Refreshing an old app for a pandemic

We developed the Phew app in 2015, when iOS 8 was the new hot item. After 2016, the app received minor updates for bug fixes and iOS compatibility, but by the time iOS 13 came out last last year, the…

What I learned in 2017 as CTO for a VR startup

For me, I’ve found that I have to get my hands dirty to really understand and appreciate something. There can be a big difference between learning something in the abstract and applying it in real life, particularly in production environments.…

Secret decoded

The Secret app is a new iPhone app for sharing photos and text anonymously. The sharing model of Secret is unusual and intriguing to me.  According to their FAQ: Your secrets are delivered anonymously to the people in your Contacts…

Forbes: Android is shipping more phones but Apple is still the logical choice for mobile development

The title to this May 9 story, suggests another Apple bashing: “Is Apple’s dominance of Mobile Development on the Wane?” It appears to be an old editorial trick, the classic alarmist headline, because the article itself goes on to answer in…