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  • Project Update 14 Outtake
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    Project Update 14 Outtake

    ByJoseph September 30, 2019June 25, 2023

    A short outtake from episode 14 of Project Update. Listen to the full episode here.

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  • Naming things is hard
    Retrospective | Technical

    Naming things is hard

    ByJoseph September 27, 2019June 25, 2023

    Naming things is HARD

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  • Event row types (WIP)
    Retrospective | Technical

    Event row types (WIP)

    ByJoseph September 27, 2019June 25, 2023

    This morning I made some change to the way that I get events data from Core Data. I outlined my thinking behind this yesterday. Today I put it into practice in the app. There are two types of events in Retrospective Timeline I wanted a way to explode the second type of event into multiple…

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  • Follow up to event sorting
    Retrospective | Technical

    Follow up to event sorting

    ByJoseph September 26, 2019June 25, 2023

    This is a short follow up article regarding the problems I described in this post. I spent some time mocking this up in a Swift Playground on my iPad. First I added a new container object called EventContainer. This is an object that I can map my events to, while keeping a reference to the…

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  • Thoughts on sorting events
    Retrospective | Technical

    Thoughts on sorting events

    ByJoseph September 26, 2019June 25, 2023

    Objective:  I need a way to sort events in a list view that makes them easy to find.  Constrains:  Options: I’d like to proceed with option three from the list above. Using this approach will place an event in the list twice if it has a start and end date. I can format the rows…

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  • The app I’ve been working on
    Retrospective | Technical

    The app I’ve been working on

    ByJoseph September 26, 2019June 25, 2023

    The app I’ve been working on over the last few months is called Retrospective Timelines. I’m still trying to learn how to talk (and write) about the app in a way that makes sense and appeals to customers, but for now I’ll just write a bit about what it is and what it does. This…

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  • One week with SwiftUI
    Retrospective | Technical

    One week with SwiftUI

    ByJoseph August 9, 2019June 25, 2023

    I just wrapped up a week of working with SwiftUI full time. It certainly has some rough edges and each new beta version brings a lot of changes. Here is a recap of what’s working for me and what I still need to figure out. List views are really simple in SwiftUI. The first layout…

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  • Thinking about SwiftUI
    Retrospective | Technical

    Thinking about SwiftUI

    ByJoseph August 2, 2019June 25, 2023

    Last week I decided to spend the weekend learning about SwiftUI. The weekend turned into an entire week but I was eventually able to learn everything I set out to learn. This course on Udemy was particularly helpful. I’m going to take a long weekend to give myself time to reflect on what I have learned…

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  • Questions for myself about SwiftUI
    Retrospective | Technical

    Questions for myself about SwiftUI

    ByJoseph July 26, 2019June 25, 2023

    This weekend I’m going to spend some time with SwiftUI. I tried to think of the most important questions that I want to answer. I have no idea how much progress I will make but if I come up with answers to these I’ll write about them.

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  • Symbols and icons
    Retrospective | Technical

    Symbols and icons

    ByJoseph July 25, 2019June 25, 2023

    I’m working on an icon picker for my app. The idea is to allow users to select a color and icon as a secondary way of identifying their lists. I have 10 colors picked out and the color picker is up and running, and I just wrapped up the first pass at the icon picker….

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  • Finding the right work
    Professional

    Finding the right work

    ByJoseph July 25, 2019March 3, 2025

    What is this? Since 2019 I’ve been having a slow conversation with myself about what I do for work. For context, I got my start in software development in 2011 in the FileMaker Pro platform. I worked on tons of internal solutions for small business and government clients while I built up some skills. In…

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  • New Podcast: Project Update
    Professional

    New Podcast: Project Update

    ByJoseph July 25, 2019June 25, 2023

    In spring of 2018 Dave and I put VR Hermits on hiatus. Dave had some interesting work he wanted to focus on and I needed to spend some time on a few consulting projects. We had planned to resume in the fall but I think somewhere along the line Dave realized that Virtual Reality development…

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