Notes

I’ve been publishing these for over 5 years.

2025

Building Chroma for Swift – Sep 5
String Obfuscation in Swift Apps – Aug 25
TiktokenSwift – Aug 14

2024

Working with Transformation Matrices in Swift – Sep 9
Working with the Opus Audio Codec in Swift – Aug 26
Freelancing Tactics – Apr 3

2023

Designing for AI Notes – Dec 12
Keeping Time in San Francisco – Oct 21
Thoughts on AI Hardware – Oct 4
The Coming of Local LLMs – Mar 23
LLM Powered Assistants for Complex Interfaces – Feb 26
Angel Investing Notes – Feb 7

2022

Notes from Functional Swift – Nov 26
Affine Transforms in iOS for Fun and Profit - Guest Post – Aug 2
Not Everything is an OS! – Jun 6
Push Notifications and The Tyrany of Stolen Attention – May 2
Distributing Frameworks via CocoaPods – Apr 20
The Causes of Latency in Computing Systems, and Why Exactly It Frustrates Us – Apr 6

2021

Notes - The New Typography – Nov 28
Working with Server-Sent Events in Swift – Nov 16
A Personal History of Visual Programming Environments – Nov 13
Re-Visiting Old Work - SOLI Sketches – Oct 30
Some Thoughts on Interfaces – Oct 24
Memo - Roboflow – Feb 1
Some Resources For Learning About HCI – Jan 22
Video Tools and Interfaces: Perspectives From Adobe Research – Jan 11

2020

Thoughts on Projects Never Finished – Sep 22
Objective-C Review for Swift Developers – Jun 26
Why Writing Should be Part of Your Team's Development Culture – Jun 8
Project Soli & the Coming Use of Radar in Human-Machine Interfaces – Apr 7

2019

Classification of Sound Files on iOS with the SoundAnalysis Framework and ESC-10 CoreML Model – Oct 29
Machine Learning Development on Apple Platforms – Oct 14
Things a First Time PM Should Know About iOS Development – Sep 27

2017

Machine-Learning Powered Gesture Recognition on iOS – Oct 7
Jazz, Gestures, and Open-Source - Why & How I Learned to Code – Oct 3
Integrating Arduino-Bluetooth Sensors with iOS – Sep 5
Integrating the GRT into an iPhone Project – Aug 29
Real-Time Data Teceiving and Rendering in Processing – Aug 21
Touché, and Water as an Interface – Aug 15
Talking to Plants: Touché Experiments – Aug 4
Tools for Machine Learning and Sensor Inputs for Gesture Recognition – Jun 6

2016

EYEO 2016: Observations on Toolmaking – Jun 13
Participating in the SOLI Alpha Developer Program – May 23