Mini-story: The History Section - “Welcome to the history section,” the librarian said. “Is there something I can help you find?” Anne smiled, allowing herself to lean against the polishe...

Differential heuristics - In 2005 Google showed off Google Maps, which lets you drag the map around instead of reloading the page like MapQuest and others used. That's the featur...

10 years of Furi! - Furi’s 10 year anniversary is almost upon us! We will be looking back at everything you love about Furi, all the cool things the community has created ov...

Have LLMs improved for Swift coding in the last 12 months? - In the previous article, I struggled through getting GitHub Copilot (at the time based on GPT 4o) to generate a small Swift/SwiftUI/AVFoundation applicat...

DIY Coronavirus Tracking - Everybody enjoying their shelter in place, we trust? Yes, it’s interesting times indeed, especially here at Trollwerks Manor in downtown Bangkok where we’v...

Queen's Wish Is Out. Here's Why It's So Weird! - All new. All different. Now that we've finally released our new game, Queen's Wish: The Conqueror, we're finally free to talk about it! Nerdy game-design...

Friday Q&A 2018-06-29: Debugging with C-Reduce - Debugging a complex problem is tough, and it can be especially difficult when it's not obvious which chunk of code is responsible. It's common to attempt t...

Developer Review: 2017 MacBook 12 - After much consideration and review, I recently purchased a 2017 MacBook. No, not a MacBook Pro 13 or 15. I purchased the 12 inch MacBook. The small laptop...

I’ve moved to a new blog - This is just to let you know that I’ve decided to discontinue this blog, and start a new one over at majicdave.com. This is a result of me growing up a bit...

Bitcode error when trying to archive a project using Xcode 7.0.1 - RadioKit has been updated to version 2.15.4. This is a simple rebuild of the library to correct an error Xcode 7.0.1 introduced when trying to "archive" ...

Parallax UITableView header with Auto Layout - I’ve been working on a thing at Shopify, where I implemented a header containing an image that has a parallax effect when scrolling up and expands when scr...

Interlude 15 - Site Update (Last update 6/01/17) - Over the years, Codea has continued to grow and evolve. As of this post, the current version is 2.3.1(47). With each new build, features are added and som...

WWDC 2014 - We're less than a week out from WWDC. The conference really snuck up on me this year. I never even got around to updating my WWDC First Timer's Guide. Re-r...

Device orientation vs interface orientation - Just today I got bit by confusing device orientation and interface orientation. I really should know better. Device orientation is of course the orientatio...

Tell Me Cow Bird – What Went Wrong? - It has been almost a year since the last blog post. Most of the time we were working on our own apps, a few client jobs as well as on our latest game Cow B...

Silicon Shakespeare -

Attention, Public Transport Users! - Please, for the love of all that you hold dear and sacred, please, please, *please*, refrain from brushing your hair and clipping or filing your nails on p...

Finally: Slush Pile Completed - It took much, much longer than anticipated even given our two-month extension, but I finally emailed the last author a few minutes ago. All authors have be...

Progress Report V1.2 - Day two of writing progressed. I've slipped into a new routine where I come home from work and spend an hour or two writing before moving onto other things...

Playtest Shadows Over Olympus - I’m making Shadows Over Olympus: a roguelike where you play cards onto a hex map of corrupted mythological Greece. No dice, no random rewards: outsmart m...

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