nick peelman

Link bryan.io: Move to CocoaPods

seesaengineering:

Last week Caleb and I switched the Seesaw iPhone app to CocoaPods. I’ve been hesitant for awhile, but I’m really glad we made the switch.

Git submodules are great if you understand how they work, but they can definitely be a real pain. The move to CocoaPods took a…

It took me a while to warm to it, and I still think it needs an Xcode plugin or something akin to Alcatraz to expose / lower the barrier to entry, but even with its flaws it’s still the best way to do dependency management for iOS app development.

Link Brent Simmons: iCloud Complications

This would be more general than just a syncing solution, but you could use it just for syncing. Or you could add more sophisticated backend services. (You could write an RSS reader with this or something social like Glassboard.)

This would be awesome, but I would argue its still putting a large onus on Apple that isn’t necessary. The only part that REALLY needs to be seamless is the authentication. Allowing and/or forcing developers to manage their own infrastructure, deal with the own outages, and control their own destinies is the one really scalable solution, unless Apple really wants to attempt to become as wily and capable at infrastructure as Google, Amazon, and to a somewhat lesser extent Microsoft (speaking strictly about Azure).o

Link Day One Uses

parislemon:

chartier:

Day One is a fantastic, refreshingly polished journaling app from Paul Mayne for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I love it for general journaling (aka, a diary), but its flexible nature lends itself to any number of uses from a travel log, a work journal, baby books, a workout or diet log, and much more.

If you’re in the “I really want to try Day One but I have no idea what I’d use it for” camp, Paul rounded up a ton of blog posts people have written about all the unique uses they found.

I use Day One as my primary way of keeping track of notes/quotes/links for stories to write in the future — sort of a way of archiving thoughts. I love the quick access provided by the toolbar portion of the native Mac app paired with the iOS apps.

I like the movie log idea as well.

Ditto. I have been terrible about it lately, but DayOne helps reign in my scatterbrain.

Link iOS needs A Kid Mode? How about adults need a Parent Mode

It’s odd to me that much of the response has blamed the parents, tut-tutting about their failure to enable the appropriate restrictions and parental controls on their iPad before handing it over to the child. Maybe they should have RTFM (ahem, read the manual, as the expression goes), it’s true. But at the end of the day, while this is an extreme example of what can go wrong (and here’s another), it’s at the far end of the spectrum of a completely broken model in terms of how Apple’s youngest users are interacting with its technology and mobile applications.

How about instead of just handing over what you consider to be a digital babysitter, try supervising your young kids when they are on any device, whether or not you bothered to turn on the 14 different things Apple has put in place already that could be called “kid mode”.

At this point, I’m beyond wanting to argue for one solution over another – I just want Apple to pick one solution – ANY SOLUTION – and implement it.

There are plenty of solutions available. Including the STUPID SIMPLE one that is Restrictions -> Enable Restrictions -> Installing Apps [Off] | In-App Purchases [Off]. Done.