Effective Résumé Writing

I recently completed a successful job search in which my résumé got a high response rate. In this post, I’ll share my thought process so that you can also create an effective résumé.

A Winning Hanabi Strategy

My favorite card game is Hanabi by Antoine Bauza. My friends and I have played it enough to learn a series of techniques that reliably boost our score. Some of these techniques were collected from the internet, but some are our own ideas. In this post, I’ll share what we’ve learned.

Gargoyles of New York

In New York, there are so many sights and sounds that it’s easy to overlook the city’s more commonplace features. Gargoyles of New York, out now on the iOS App Store, is a documentary photo essay that showcases the city’s ubiquitous standpipes.

Concision

Concise communication is an indispensable tool for helping others easily understand your ideas. In this post, I’ll discuss how concision helps convey meaning and unburdens your audience.

Focus in tvOS

As a developer in the Apple ecosystem, it’s always exciting to have a new device to work on. With the release of the fourth generation Apple TV, we have a new SDK that will feel familiar to iOS developers, but also comes with some new ideas.

Open Source Swift

At this year’s WWDC, Apple announced that they would be open sourcing Swift. Now that the code is available, we can finally see what they’ve been working on.

Size Class Concepts in iOS

With ever more devices and new multitasking features supported by iOS, it’s important to create user interfaces that scale gracefully to different screen sizes. Size classes are the most effective tool for tackling this problem. In this post, we’ll look at what size classes are and how to use them.

Design Exercise: Dejarik

One of my favorite moments from Star Wars is the ‘Let the Wookie win’ scene, where the protagonists play a futuristic version of chess. This game is called Dejarik, and canonical rules were never defined. In this post, I’ll propose a rule set for Dejarik that I created as a design exercise.

Software Intuition

Software development is notoriously counterintuitive, especially if you’ve never written any code. In this post, we’ll explore some common misconceptions along with pieces of wisdom from experts in the field.

Interface Builder Tricks

Interface Builder is a great tool for creating the UI for iOS apps. Most iOS developers already know the basics of how to use it. So in this post, I’ll share a few of the more obscure techniques for getting the most out of IB.