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“You’re basically not going to be an iOS engineer anymore?” When my good friend Soroush asked this upon hearing that I had taken a new job at Stripe, I doubt he thought very much about how it’d be received. It really threw me for a...

A couple of years ago, I asked for a recommendation for a “personal CRM” – a client-relationship management tool intended for individual use. As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one asking, and a solution still hasn’t emerged despite...

In traditional client-server development, client-side models don’t often differ too dramatically from server-side models. Should they? A standard RESTful API might serialize a server-side user model as such: { "id": 12345, ...

Yours truly, in January 2013: Last year I only read two books. I’m disappointed by that, and my goal this year is to read somewhere closer to ten, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. To hold myself accountable, I will...

On Friday, September 14 at 2:58 AM, my alarm woke me up so that I could pre-order an Apple Watch Series 4 the moment that it went on sale. If you’re reading this blog and/or follow me elsewhere on the Internet, this might not...

Around the time of Apple and Google’s maps-induced falling out, there seemed to be a common consumer-tech refrain around how the best theoretical experience would be comprised of Apple hardware tightly integrated with both Google’s...

(After trying to shine on a light on some inconsistencies of Apple’s doing, it seems only fair to give Google the same treatment.) Like most of you (I presume), I’ve used Gmail for many years. In an industry where products can too...

It’s1 the start of a new year, and thus a good opportunity to think about how the next 365 days can improve upon their predecessors. I’ve spent a inordinate amount of time in recent months considering how the software in my life can can be...

Most of the criticism that I read about Siri – especially when comparing and contrasting to Alexa or the Google Assistant – seems to focus primarily on speed and/or reliability. While these are perfectly valid vectors of criticism,...

I’ve been using OmniFocus to organize my personal and professional lives for a couple years now, but hadn’t actually read David Allen’s Getting Things Done (referred to as GTD for the remainder of this post) – the eponymous book behind the...