OrchardNest

I am reading the book Human Compatible by Stuart Russell, which I recently ordered along with Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths) and The Precipice (Toby Ord). All of these authors and books I have encountered in one way...

The wiring up of different components in my next program (now called simons-assistant) was getting annoying, so I wanted to try a Dependency Injection framework. No, it was far from necessary, but I also wanted to play more with such...

I added support for checking my Gmail account. If there are threads in the Inbox, it opens up Gmail so that I can clear it. (Yes, I use Inbox Zero. Or at least I think I do. What it means to me is that I strive for, and reach with some...

Yesterday I told you about next, the digital assistant. Today’s task will be to make it run a specific task on a specific interval. I’m writing really stupid and straightforward code. I intend to refactor it heavily as I discover what I’m...

Here’s the next iteration of the track I called “Take my hand”. It now has some vocals. Sounds kind of like a lo-fi Beach Boys lullaby. Simon Kågedal Reimer · Take My Hand with some vocals While yesterday’s recordings where done with...

Software microproject time! Something I’ve meant to do for a little while is a kind of digital assistant for the command line. Something that keeps track of things I need to regularly do while on the computer. I will call it next because...

This is the summer of micro-projects! In an hour, you record a song, write a piece of software, draw an image, write an essay. You publish it online. It might not be a great piece of work. It will be very unfinished, but there will also...

I set up this site last summer and just now I thought that it’s about time to write another post. The first job now will be to figure out how to post to this blog. There’s a deploy script; let’s see if it works. It worked just fine....

This blog has now moved to the domain blog.skagedal.tech. Welcome!

My post about Collection View Tetris was picked up as the “and finally…” entry by the ever-awesome news letter iOS Dev Weekly! Nice. This prompted me to finish up a little follow-up: a comparison of available Table View and Collection...

I’d like to tell the story of how exploring table view animations led me to this beautiful use of Xcode’s color literals. A while back, I was investigating the animations in UITableView and UICollectionView. As you may be aware, in a...

The Bottom Drawer or Bottom Sheet is a user interface pattern that is used more and more on iOS, showing up in Apple’s own apps like Apple Music and Maps. But as of yet, there is no standard component for app developers to use. In this...