# Justin Williams
> The personal landing page and portfolio for Justin Williams, a software developer in Denver Colorado.
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## Pages
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## Posts
- [Removing Unremovable Files after Upgrading to macOS Catalina](https://www.justinw.me/blog/unremovable-files-macos-catalina.md) - Against the better judgement of my own common sense, I decided to update my iMac to the macOS Catalina beta recently. One of the major internal changes in going from Mojave to Catalina is the transition to a read-only System volume [https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/710/]. During thi…
- [The Joys of a Two Week Vacation](https://www.justinw.me/blog/two-week-vacations.md) - Today is my first day back at work after a wonderful two weeks unplugged from the normal day-to-day workings of a software developer. I don’t unplug entirely, but my iMac with Xcode and all the trimmings is mostly replaced with the iPad Pro 10.5 I am presently typing on. In my twenties I would rare…
- [How I Made Twitter Tolerable, for Me](https://www.justinw.me/blog/make-twitter-less-terrible-again.md) - At some point in 2016 I opted out of most social media, especially Twitter. I don’t remember the exact day or what the final straw was that brought me to that point, but my response was to delete nearly a decade's worth of tweets, unfollow every account and just stop participating. There was no maj…
- [My 2017 Home Screen](https://www.justinw.me/blog/homescreen-2017.md) - [https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/93302d8c-df65-445d-9422-99c3d0ca0880/content/images/2017/12/homescreen_iphone_2017.png] As a matter of archiving and historical significance that is potentially only useful to me, I’m opting to share the current home screen of my iPhone on this, the first day of 20…
- [Updating Your APFS Encrypted Volume / FileVault Password](https://www.justinw.me/blog/updating-your-apfs-encrypted-volume-filevault-password.md) - For as long as I can remember, I have been running into an annoying issue with my iMac where I’d have to authenticate twice upon restart: once with my old account password to unlock FileVault, followed by my new account password to actually get into my account. I finally took the time to figure out…
- [A Note on carpeaqua RSS](https://www.justinw.me/blog/a-note-on-carpeaqua-rss.md) - If you're still reading this site via RSS, it's time to update your feed reader. Or just use Twitter.
- [I Got Hacked and All I Got Was This New SIM Card](https://www.justinw.me/blog/hack-the-planet.md) - I like to think I take an above average amount of steps to secure myself online: I use a password manager, unique passwords as complex as the site will allow, and turn on 2-factor authentication when possible. A true security expert will likely find some sort of flaw in my setup, but I'll argue tha…
- [Swift's Evolution](https://www.justinw.me/blog/swifts-evolution.md) - I'm usually pretty good at inferring where Apple is going with their projects and products. With Swift, I'm left shrugging. Hopefully the purpose of Swift and how it relates to Apple becomes less muddy next week. Since 2004 (!) I have been attending WWDC on a regular basis. My first time was on a s…
- [A Software Developer’s Mac Pro](https://www.justinw.me/blog/a-software-developers-mac-pro.md) - According to the transcript [https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-craig-federighi-and-john-ternus-on-the-state-of-apples-pro-macs/] of the chat, Apple has a few different types of pro users it is considering: 1. Video editors 2. Music creators 3. Graphic designers 4. Scientist…
- [Why Pro Matters](https://www.justinw.me/blog/why-pro-matters.md) - Sebastiaan de With pens what I consider to be the best argument [https://medium.com/@sdw/why-pro-matters-75593220cb1ao] for why Apple should care about a niche market of Pro Mac users: > Macs became the tool of choice of this new wave of designers, and as the web evolved Apple kept its OS and app e…
- [My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for macOS Sierra (2017 Edition)](https://www.justinw.me/blog/my-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-macos-sierra-2017-edition.md) - This is the latest installment of my must have must have list of tools and utilities as a macOS and iOS developer. The idea for this list was shamelessly ripped off from Windows developer Scott Hanselman [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWind…
- [Showing Debug and Info Logs in the macOS Sierra Console](https://www.justinw.me/blog/debug-and-info-unified-logging.md) - This is one of those "it's obvious in hindsight" problems I ran into recently. At the day job, we have been migrating all of our logging code from Aspen [https://github.com/justin/Aspen] to Apple's new Unified Logging System [https://developer.apple.com/reference/os/logging]. This has been a win fo…
- [Improving the iPad By Making it an iMac](https://www.justinw.me/blog/looking-backwards.md) - Jason Snell on “improving” iOS for the iPad [http://www.macworld.com/article/3173253/ios/for-a-bigger-ipad-to-work-ios-needs-some-interface-improvements.html] : > Will we see a 20-plus-inch iOS desktop with a windowed interface anytime soon? I doubt it–but I could imagine one existing in the next t…
- [The Conference Circus](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-conference-circus.md) - I want to quote this entire article by Pedro Piñera [http://ppinera.es/2016/11/16/in-a-world.html], but I’ll just highlight my favorite part. > By tagging the elite as “experts” in different areas we put them under pressure. Pressure to keep that label and keep being active. I have to be at more co…
- [Fighting Back](https://www.justinw.me/blog/fighting_back.md) - Like most people in my bubble [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hIPqw-93d3IRdf6phKCLGH2&index=7] , the US Elections didn’t exactly go how I planned. There’s been a lot of handwringing about how to best fight back against an administration that you and other like-minded fo…
- [Netflix, iOS, tvOS, CenturyLink, and a Netgear Nighthawk, Oh My!](https://www.justinw.me/blog/netflix-ios-tvos-centurylink-and-a-netgear-nighthawk-oh-my.md) - There is zero point to this post. I’m only writing it in case someone else runs into this issue. Hopefully they don’t have to spend as many hours as I did to debug this. Maybe someone can also explain why this was an issue in the first place. For the last six months or so I have been unable to use…
- [Advanced iOS Application Architecture](https://www.justinw.me/blog/advanced-ios-application-architecture.md) - I am mostly retired from the public speaking circuit. I do still make a point to try and do 360iDev [https://360idev.com/] in Denver each year, considering the proprietor is a friend and I can sleep in my bed every night of the conference. This year I did a talk that was a departure from my last fe…
- [What Old Is New Again in Auto Layout on iOS 10](https://www.justinw.me/blog/what-old-is-new-again-in-auto-layout-on-ios-10.md) - The “What’s New in Auto Layout” talk seems to be becoming an annual tradition at WWDC. I didn’t attend in person this year, because I couldn’t get out of San Francisco fast enough on the Friday of the conference, but I recently sat down and watched the video and have been thinking about what Apple…
- [A Sane Reference for TargetConditionals](https://www.justinw.me/blog/targetconditionals.md) - I’ve spent the past couple days cleaning up some code to work on iOS, macOS, and watchOS. One thing I constantly struggle with is keeping the values I need from TargetConditionals.h in my head for when I want to #if branch a segment of Objective-C code for a specific platform. So . . . I made a tab…
- [TED 3.0: Working Effectively with Legacy iOS Code](https://www.justinw.me/blog/working-effectively-with-legacy-ios-code.md) - I don’t talk often about the work I do to keep the lights on at my house, but I have spent a good portion of the last four years working on the TED for iOS [https://www.ted.com] app. The 3.0 release is the biggest release we’ve undertaken at TED in terms of scope and amount of changes to bring it t…
- [Picking your Swift toolchain from xcodebuild](https://www.justinw.me/blog/picking-your-swift-toolchain-from-xcodebuild.md) - With Xcode 8 xcodebuild uses Swift 3 to build by default. This will be great in about six months, but right now it’s somewhat of a pain. I am using Carthage as my dependency manager and all of those are using Swift 2.x still. If you want to build your Carthage dependencies (or anything from the com…
- [When Good Apps Crash Unexpectedly](https://www.justinw.me/blog/when-good-apps-crash-unexpectedly.md) - I had a fun Friday evening. I received a Slack notification sent to everyone in our group stating that the iOS app was crashing on launch. This came as a surprise to me, because our most recent release had been out for several weeks at this point. It also was the most stable release in terms of num…
- [GoogleCast, GitHub, Git-LFS, and You](https://www.justinw.me/blog/googlecast-github-git-lfs-and-you.md) - My main project these days bundles Google’s GoogleCast / Chromecast framework in it to allow users to stream video content from their iOS devices to Google’s little streaming sticks. Overall, I like the Chromecast devices. They seem to work a bit more reliably than Airplay in a lot of ways. What I…
- [Rock-Paper-Scissors](https://www.justinw.me/blog/rock-paper-scissors.md) - I can’t say enough good things about this Android commercial [https://twitter.com/android/status/704018601494220800] ad that played a few times during the Oscars.
- [Stephen Wilkes's Day to Night Photography](https://www.justinw.me/blog/stephen-wilkess-day-to-night-photography.md) - Stephen Wilkes [http://www.stephenwilkes.com/fine-art/day-to-night/5408defb-b7c0-4d9c-b89d-25740a627753] is a professional photographer who gave a talk at TED last week on his day to night photography project. Wilkes sets up at a location for an entire day or more capturing the same shot repeatedly…
- [@Justin Bieber Explains Twitter's Difficulties](https://www.justinw.me/blog/justin-bieber-explains-twitters-difficulties.md) - In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is doomed [http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/26/10833024/is-twitter-doomed]! Like, Apple levels of doomed [https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22apple+is+doomed%22+site:daringfireball.net] . User growth has been stalled for years. Advertising isn’t picking up [http…
- [Using Operator in Xcode](https://www.justinw.me/blog/using-operator-in-xcode.md) - For the longest time I have been using Meslo [https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font] as my monospaced font of choice in Xcode, Atom, and Terminal. I couldn’t resist the urge to give Hoefler & Co’s Operator [http://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/overview/] release as a replacement. I don’t real…
- [@carpeaqua on Twitter](https://www.justinw.me/blog/carpeaqua-on-twitter.md) - A short note to let you know that if RSS [https://feedpress.me/carpeaqua] isn’t your thing, you can now get updated on new posts to this site via Twitter. Follow @carpeaqua on Twitter. [https://twitter.com/] I’ll eventually get around to putting out an email version [https://brooksreview.net/2015/1…
- [The Gang of Four](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-gang-of-four.md) - Scott Galloway [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjg0kGQFBY]: This is probably one of the most engaging and interesting talks I’ve sat through. If you want to have a really good idea of the size of business the Gang of Four (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google) are doing I doubt you’re going to fin…
- [DigitalOcean Migration](https://www.justinw.me/blog/digitalocean-migration.md) - If you can read this, then everything has moved successfully. I’m now hosting the site on a server at DigitalOcean [https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=08745ff7fad4] rather than on Azure. Why? Predominantly performance. Azure is notoriously slow when it comes to MySQL, apparently because it’s out…
- [My iOS Development Kit - January 2016](https://www.justinw.me/blog/my-ios-development-kit-january-2016.md) - If you surveyed me annually, you’d likely find that my toolkit for building Mac and iOS applications changes a bit year over year. This year, however, the changes seem to be even bigger than before. With Swift 2’s release, I made the full transition from Objective-C to Apple’s new language du jour.…
- [The Chicken or the iPad Pro](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-chicken-or-the-ipad-pro.md) - The iPad Pro went on sale this week. I picked one up at my local store, though my Pencil and keyboard case won’t ship for another few weeks. I haven’t been this fascinated by a new device since the original iPad was released back in 2010. That is the device that got me re-energized to build my own…
- ["Despite Its Flaws . . ."](https://www.justinw.me/blog/despite-its-flaws.md) - [https://i1.wp.com/104.236.158.40/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/appletv_v2015.jpg] > . . . I like Apple Music. It works for me. . . . the Apple Watch is pretty neat. I wear it daily. . . . the new Apple TV is pretty good. This is how I’ve described Apple’s three new products released this year when as…
- [HTML5 Colorado — A Tribute to Alex King](https://www.justinw.me/blog/html5-colorado-a-tribute-to-alex-king.md) - > In tribute to Alex King, this is a re-released version of his geeky & meta tee. The HTML5 canvas code on the shirt draws a Colorado state flag. We think of it as a celebration of an amazing person and one of his many great creations. See Alex model the original shirt himself [http://alexking.org/…
- [On the iPad Pro and the Constraints of iOS](https://www.justinw.me/blog/on-the-ipad-pro-and-the-constraints-of-ios.md) - In their current incarnations, I believe that Windows 10 is better suited to the Surface than iOS is to the iPad Pro. Now, with that quotable hot take out of the way, let me explain. I have every intention of dropping some serious coin on the highest end iPad Pro, keyboard, and a don’t-call-it-a-st…
- [Achieving Zen With Auto Layout (2nd Edition)](https://www.justinw.me/blog/achieving-zen-with-auto-layout-2nd-edition.md) - Last year I released a book based on all my speaking engagements around Auto Layout called Achieving Zen With Auto Layout [https://gumroad.com/l/autolayout]. The book was very well received when it was announced and it made me realize I enjoyed writing about technical topics again (with the absence…
- [Auto Layout Debugging In Swift](https://www.justinw.me/blog/auto-layout-debugging-in-swift.md) - I’ve been working with Swift primarily over the last month. Recently I started working on a new custom interface piece that was having some rendering issues with its layout constraints. I went into LLDB and quickly realized that using private methods such as _autolayoutTrace and recursiveDescriptio…
- [Repurposing the Titanic](https://www.justinw.me/blog/repurposing-the-titanic.md) - My biggest mistake with Glassboard was having blinders to the fact that the design decisions Sepia Labs made when building Glassboard would likely clash with mine. That doesn’t have anything to do with visual design. Instead, I’m referring to the platform architecture decisions they made as a funde…
- [What Problem Are You Solving?](https://www.justinw.me/blog/what-problem-are-you-solving.md) - The worst day I had in my time with Glassboard came last month. It was becoming obvious that even with the latest round of changes to the business model and pricing schemes, things weren’t turning around as well as I had hoped. I had no beliefs that new pricing would be a magic bullet to solve all…
- [The Gamble](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-gamble.md) - Last week I announced that Glassboard will be going out of business [http://glassboard.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/glassboard-closing-down-november-1-2014/] as of November 1, because I was unable to turn it into a profitable business. There are a lot of different things I want to cover eventually abou…
- [Auto Layout In iOS 8 - layoutDebuggingIdentifier](https://www.justinw.me/blog/auto-layout-in-ios-8-layoutdebuggingidentifier.md) - Another new identifier Apple added in iOS 8 is the private API property _layoutDebuggingIdentifier to UIView that you can use to clean up what is output in _autolayoutTrace. Since it is private API, you don’t want to ship with this code in because Apple will likely reject it, but for debugging purp…
- [Ninety Days](https://www.justinw.me/blog/ninety-days.md) - Aside from a bit of snark [https://www.justinw.me/2014/07/29/my-thoughts-on-being-indie-in-2014/], I’ve kept mostly quiet about this year’s indie developer snafus. It’s not really my place to tell you how to run your business, but I can share some things I have done that I have found to be successf…
- [Auto Layout In iOS 8 - Layout Margins](https://www.justinw.me/blog/auto-layout-in-ios-8-layout-margins.md) - Apple has added a few additions to both iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite that make working with Auto Layout even more of a no brainer than before. Over the next few weeks, I am going to take some time to write about each one of them to give fellow developers an idea of how to make use of these features in t…
- [Achieving Zen With Auto Layout - The Book](https://www.justinw.me/blog/achieving-zen-with-auto-layout-the-book.md) - tl;dr I am writing a book on Auto Layout. You can purchase it now [http://gum.co/autolayout]. Over the last year I have been criss-crossing the country giving a talk called Achieving Zen With Auto Layout [https://www.justinw.me/autolayout/] to any conference or user group that would host me. Speaki…
- [Beta Testing A Book](https://www.justinw.me/blog/beta-testing-a-book.md) - When I decided to ship Achieving Zen With Auto Layout [http://gum.co/autolayout] , I knew I didn’t want to wait until the book was completely done before unveiling it to the public. The old way of publishing involved writing a book in a vacuum, throwing it through a bit of tech editing and then put…
- [Thinking In Terms Of iOS 8 Size Classes](https://www.justinw.me/blog/thinking-in-terms-of-ios-8-size-classes.md) - One of the least sexy features of iOS 8’s new developer SDK may in fact be its most important: size classes. A History Lesson When iOS was first introduced, we had one device: the iPhone. It had a 320×480 pixel screen and it came in any color you liked, as long as it was black. Even in this single…
- [Learning How To Make Sausage](https://www.justinw.me/blog/learning-how-to-make-sausage.md) - Let’s imagine there is someone out there who watched last week’s WWDC keynote and thought to themselves, “This is it! Now! Now is the time for me to learn to program and build an iOS app!” Nevermind that they are about 6 years late to gold rush, it’s an exciting proposition. Programming is fun! I c…
- [The Next Five Years](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-next-five-years.md) - Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU&feature=kp]. My confidence in the iOS platform has been waning over the last 12 months. iOS 7 was a hard upgrade to swallow both in terms of the changes and the work it brought. A questionable visual…
- [(no title)](https://www.justinw.me/blog/251.md) - The ski bum of the iOS development community Kirby Turner wrote up how he using Auto Layout [http://www.thecave.com/2014/05/04/i-stopped-using-nibs-thanks-to-auto-layout/] and was lucky enough to get a large audience for it through iOS Dev Weekly [http://iosdevweekly.com/]. I’m happy to see that Ki…
- [Going Against the Grain](https://www.justinw.me/blog/going-against-the-grain.md) - By now you may have heard that App.net, the upstart social network/platform/data layer, is entering maintenance mode [http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/] after the company laid off their team when renewals weren’t as high as they’d hoped. I’ve been a founding member of the A…
- [Combatting Kryptonite](https://www.justinw.me/blog/combatting-kryptonite.md) - One of the Twitter searches I check every few days is for “Auto Layout” [https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%22Auto%20Layout%22&src=typd]. Twitter is a wonderful place to find people complaining about technologies, and pretty much the only information you’ll see on the Auto Layout search for T…
- [Fighting Your Tools](https://www.justinw.me/blog/fighting-your-tools.md) - As I mentioned recently [https://www.justinw.me/2014/04/16/refactoring-in-the-cloud-notifications/], I am working on a refactoring of how Glassboard handles its push notifications system. The short-version is that the current incarnation uses an Azure Worker Role to handle messages of a Storage Que…
- [Moonshots](https://www.justinw.me/blog/moonshots.md) - tl;dr — Photos+ has a new home at Silver Pine Software [http://www.silverpinesoftware.com/photos.html]. Elements has been discontinued due to lack of sales and so I can focus on Glassboard [http://glassboard.com]. When I decided to take over Glassboard [http://glassboard.com], I knew I was at the t…
- [Refactoring in the Cloud - Notifications](https://www.justinw.me/blog/refactoring-in-the-cloud-notifications.md) - One of the things I have been thinking about a lot recently is the architecture of Glassboard. Now that I have everything mapped out for where I want to take Glassboard’s direction going forward both financially and functionally, it’s the time to look at how to actually build that functionality int…
- [Data Analytics That Matter](https://www.justinw.me/blog/data-analytics-that-matter.md) - Data analytics gets unnecessary grief. When most people think of analytics, they envision Google or Facebook following your every move on the web to figure out what sort of ads to show you while you are browsing. This is pretty creepy. Admittedly, it’s pretty easy to shift over to the creepy side o…
- [Build 2014](https://www.justinw.me/blog/build-2014.md) - I spent last week in San Francisco at Microsoft’s Build [http://www.buildwindows.com/] conference. Build is an annual (at least I think it’s going to be) event the company holds at Moscone West to share their latest offerings for Windows, mobile, and Azure. I’m not a developer for any of the Window…
- [The Parts of Your Platform](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-parts-of-your-platform.md) - The simpler devices get, the more complex our jobs as developers becomes it seems. When I first started my independent developer career way back in the dark ages of 2006, building an app usually meant building a desktop product that persisted data locally. In some cases there was an Internet backed…
- [How I Evaluate Third-Party Dependencies](https://www.justinw.me/blog/how-i-evaluate-third-party-dependencies.md) - > How do you manage your iOS app dependencies? This is a question I’ve answered more than a few times the past few months. Answer: with as few third-party dependencies as possible. A bit cheeky, yes, but there’s truth in it. As I’ve matured as a professional developer, I’ve learned to understand th…
- [The Auteur Theory](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-auteur-theory.md) - You’re likely sick of hearing about the show “True Detective” by now. Like millions of others, I became engulfed in HBO’s latest 8 hour masterpiece over the last few months. Plenty has been written about the Yellow King [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow], Big Hug Mugs, and Matthew Mc…
- [The Profitability Test](https://www.justinw.me/blog/the-profitability-test.md) - Last week at Mobile World Congress Nokia unveiled the Nokia X, their first foray into the wild world of Android devices. On the consumer side, the sales pitch has been an affordable phone with all the great Android apps you love, just with Nokia and Microsoft services rather than Google’s. On the d…
- [Getting Good At Making Money](https://www.justinw.me/blog/getting-good-at-making-money.md) - If there is one thing I don’t think I excel at as a business man, it is making money. That’s probably not a good thing to admit publicly, but it’s reality. In fact, I’d argue that I’ve gotten worse at making money in the past several years as the third-party software market has bottomed out. Making…
- [Handling Freemium Customer Support](https://www.justinw.me/blog/handling-freemium-customer-support.md) - One of the challenges of taking over a service as large as Glassboard [http://glassboard.com/] is handling the support load that comes with it. Since 2010, I have had Aptfolk [http://aptfolk.com] on the payroll to handle the majority of Second Gear’s support load. I’ve long believed that my time is…
- [On Glassboard & Windows Azure](https://www.justinw.me/blog/on-glassboard-windows-azure.md) - Stackmob announced it is shutting down [http://pastebin.com/B6RiEqev] this afternoon. I know a few folks that are using their services and are now going to be forced to look for a new provider for their backend services. I thought I’d share my experiences. It has been nearly two months since I took…
- [What I'm Doing With Glassboard](https://www.justinw.me/blog/what-im-doing-with-glassboard.md) - A few months ago I wrote a post titled What I’d Do With Glassboard [https://www.justinw.me/2013/08/22/what-i-d-do-with-glassboard/] that outlined what I thought the potential buyer of the service should do with it going forward. Funnily enough, this post put me in touch with the NewsGator folks and…
- [My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for OS X (2013 Edition)](https://www.justinw.me/blog/my-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-os-x-2013-edition.md) - This is the fifth installment of my must have must have list of tools and utilities as a Mac and iOS developer (2009 [https://www.justinw.me/2009/10/15/my-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-mac-os-x/] , 2010 [https://www.justinw.me/2010/10/25/my-2010-ultimate-developer-and-power-users…
- [Stop "Sherlocking" Yourself](https://www.justinw.me/blog/stop-sherlocking-yourself.md) - Back in the early days of OS X, Karelia Software had a product called Watson [http://www.karelia.com/watson/]. At its time, it was one of the best apps for the new Apple OS and really showed the power of what was possible using the Cocoa frameworks and the new Aqua design language. It was so good i…
- [Don't Fight the Future](https://www.justinw.me/blog/dont-fight-the-future.md) - Last week at CocoaConf Columbus [http://cococaconf.com] I was given the privilege of offering up a keynote address to kick off the event. This is the first time I’ve ever been asked to do something like this, which sparked both excitement and horror simultaneously. Excitement because it was an hono…
- [Trials And Upgrades Are Still Dead](https://www.justinw.me/blog/trials-and-upgrades-are-still-dead.md) - Here we go again. On Free Trials First up, the Dark Sky guy [http://blog.forecast.io/the-app-store-free-trial/]: > The solution is so simple, so easy, and so full-proof that I’m confident it would, if implemented, at least double our revenue practically overnight: Give people the option of a free m…
- [What I'd Do With Glassboard](https://www.justinw.me/blog/what-id-do-with-glassboard.md) - Glassboard [http://glassboard.com/blog/2013/08/22/big-changes-coming-for-glassboard/] is for sale. If you want to get past all the businessy corporate speak of the official blog, here’s the main nugget: > We want Glassboard to not only continue running but also to evolve and flourish. So we’re look…
- [Android@3x](https://www.justinw.me/blog/android3x.md) - A post has been making the rounds [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/30/bbc-android] today from the BBC iPlayer team [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Video-on-Android-Devices-Update] where they point out that they have a team triple the size on Android as they do on iOS. Here’s the…
- [Shooting the Messenger](https://www.justinw.me/blog/shooting-the-messenger.md) - We now supposedly know who is responsible for the Apple Developer Portal being down for the past four days. Security researcher Ibrahim Baliç [https://twitter.com/ibrahimbalic] has revealed himself [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/07/22/researcher-claims-he-told-apple-of-developer-center-vulnerabi…
- [Purging the Back Catalog](https://www.justinw.me/blog/purging-the-back-catalog.md) - David Smith, creator of personal favorite Check The Weather [http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=5J6ygNnQgI4&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=https%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcheck-the-weather%252Fid557872119%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%25…
- [30](https://www.justinw.me/blog/30.md) - * Born * Crawled * Walked * Nearly died * Lost my tonsils * Lost my baby teeth * Moved to Indiana * Went to elementary school * Won the spelling bee three times * Discovered the Internet * Went to junior high * Had my first kiss * Taught myself Visual Basic * Met my high school sweetheart * Grew my…
- [Issues With Achieving Auto Layout Zen](https://www.justinw.me/blog/issues-with-achieving-auto-layout-zen.md) - All of the projects I am currently working on are targeting iOS 6, so I have used it as an opportunity to finally dive into the deep end with Auto Layout. Committed [http://bit.ly/committed10] was my first foray with the technology on the Mac this summer when I laid out the preferences window using…
- [(no title)](https://www.justinw.me/blog/751.md) - Four weeks ago this Thursday myself and four other ridiculously talented people were laid off [http://pinboard.in/u:justin/t:hipstadramatic/] from our jobs at Hipstamatic. In the time since then we have all been trying to figure out what was next. I personally took several coffees and interviews wi…
- [A Therapeutic Killing](https://www.justinw.me/blog/a-therapeutic-killing.md) - A few months ago I started to have that itch again. You know it. You’re happy with what you’re doing at your day job, but the prospects of your own ideas are starting to take over a larger part of your brain. Knowing how I am, this was something that was only going to grow. I started to think about…
- [Thank You](https://www.justinw.me/blog/thank-you.md) - Eight months ago I decided I needed a change. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next in with my life or career. Six years of running Second Gear was rewarding personally, but financially it was a life of constant worry and living paycheck to paycheck. Coupled with complications in my personal life,…
- [Directing User Feedback](https://www.justinw.me/blog/directing-user-feedback.md) - I received a bit of feedback on ‘Useless’ Is a Loaded Word [https://www.justinw.me/2011/03/28/useless-is-a-loaded-word/] and Why I Don’t Do Sales on the App Store [https://www.justinw.me/2011/03/23/why-i-dont-do-sales-on-the-app-store/] where some misunderstood and assumed I completely ignore user…
- ['Useless' Is A Loaded Word](https://www.justinw.me/blog/useless-is-a-loaded-word.md) - Here is a tip for all the non-developers out there. When you email your favorite developer with a feature request or bug report never, ever, ever use the word useless to describe their product. Useless is kryptonite to developers and puts us on the defensive instantly. In most cases useless is used…
- [Is It More Interesting To Code Or Drink & Talk About Code?](https://www.justinw.me/blog/is-it-more-interesting-to-code-or-drink-talk-about-code.md) - When I first got interested in the Mac platform and Cocoa development, it was a small victory if I walked into a Borders or Barnes & Noble and saw Aaron Hillegass’s Cocoa Programming [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321503619/carpeaqua-20] book. Back then computer section bookshelves were f…

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