Note: This post is from a text file on my hard drive that was created on 9/11/2001 at 9:19 pm. I then emailed it to my family and friends, and it was passed around the Internet and even reprinted i...

I’ve done iCloud sync before. In 2012 I spent most of a year on Collabase, a Mac and iPad app that synced its documents first through Dropbox and then through iCloud. A good chunk of that commit lo...

I shipped the first Alpha of Alcove to TestFlight on October 22nd. Three days and 47 commits later I shipped a second one, and that’s the one I want people to try. It runs on the Mac and the iPad ...

I’ve been writing Mac apps since classic Mac OS (a version of Hearts written in Think C on a Mac Plus in 1993), so when Brent Simmons explained “Mac-assed Mac app” in 2020 I didn’t need the explana...

I reported a bug to Apple in May, found while building Alcove. Two OS releases later it still isn’t fixed. It has gotten worse with each one. The window is a three-pane NSSplitView – sidebar, cont...

I spent an evening getting the EA App version of Mass Effect Legendary Edition modded on my new Linux box, and most of that evening was dead ends. All three games now load with DLC mods, merge mods...

I replaced my gaming PC last week. The old one was a five-year-old OriginPC NEURON – Ryzen 9 5900X, Radeon RX 6800 XT, perfectly good hardware that I only used in binges. Five years, 2,020 power-on...

I’ve always named my computers with a theme, including external hard drives. At first this was so I could put cute icons on the drive icons, and then to make them easier to distinguish on the netwo...

I needed help documentation for Alcove, and I wanted two things out of it: a working Help menu in the app, and a website people could find from a search engine. What I did not want was to write eve...

For the first time in a very long time, I’m working on a project for the Apple ecosystem. I’m now devoting my spare time to Alcove. It is an ebook library manager (and eventually a reader) for Mac,...