macOS programmer, gamer
I’ve always been annoyed at not being able to create an empty file in the Finder. After way too long, I’ve finally done something about this. You can, too.
I started using *nix and programming in the early nineties. There were no helpers around, so I manually learned to do everything by hand. Same with HTML, or anything else on the Internet1.
If it was available in the nineties, I probably worked with it. (e.g. sendmail, bind, httpd, cgi-lib.pl, miniSQL before Monty started work on MySQL, building a complicated website on an IRIX server in Brazil using the country’s shared 56K connection) ↩
A lot of things have happened over the last few years, so I figured I’d go ahead and document them.
I moved to Morgantown, WV in the fall of 2010. With two partners, I started Agile Monks, a software development company. We shipped a couple minor OS X utilities, three iOS apps, and did some consulting work. We finally shut it down in 2016, though it was actually dead well before that.
I’d been using Swinject for a while, but was never satisfied. All I need for DI is the ability to inject into ViewControllers, including subclasses. After way too much time trying to add subclass support, it was much simpler to just write my own implementation.
I was working with sending REST calls to Docker via /var/run/docker.sock and needed to print out the text of the request to send via the file descriptor. This code converts a URLRequest into a CFHTTPMessage and then convert that to a string.
I’m always thinking about blogging, but I didn’t realize it had been almost 5 years since I wrote something. Hosting my own site with a generator was way too much hassle. Now that I’ve switched to Github Pages, things will be much easier and I will post more frequently.
As a developer, I was excited to see that Mountain Lion would support AirPlay. I could do all the same things from a Mac that I could from an iPad. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. For a technical breakdown of how desktop AirPlay is implemented, read ArsTechnica article on AirPlay. Basically it uses a technology called QuickSync that is in newer Intel graphics chips. So no matter how much better your discrete chip is, you’ve got to use the weaker Intel one to mirror. Which means you won’t want to mirror Diablo 3.