Negotiating for Hostages, Negotiating for Business

This applies to the semantic difference between “that’s right” and “you are right”. “If you think about it in your own life, when you say ‘you’re right’ to someone, you are just trying to get them to go away,” said Voss. But following the psychologist Carl Rogers and his person-centered theories, Voss said “that’s right” […]

On The Design And Building of 1Password for Apple Watch

It all came to a head when we were on a business trip and in a meeting with a handful of individuals whose opinions we really respect. With our usual gusto we showed off 1Password for Apple Watch and…it fell flat. Out of the five people in the room with us, only one person was […]

Quote by Winston S. Churchill: “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when ac…”

“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” Source: Quote by Winston S. Churchill: “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when […]

Swift and Visual Studio Code – owensd.io

We’ll be able to start building plug-ins as the product matures to enable all sorts of development, including Swift! Who’d expect Visual Studio to work with Swift? Source: Swift and Visual Studio Code – owensd.io

Reducing WatchKit Traffic With View Models

By using View Models the developer can create wrappers around their model objects, simplifying their extension architecture while at the same time reducing the network traffic sent from the phone to the watch. Source: Reducing WatchKit Traffic With View Models — theScore Tech Blog

Lessons on app marketing

Complete cold call but the story was right up his alley. He was interested but didn’t end up writing something. That happens — get over it! He did start reading the Tapity blog though (hint: in case you hadn’t noticed, the blog has been pretty key to my success). Journalists want good stories and if you become […]

Making command line tool in NodejS

In the last post, we made a simple command line tool. In this post, we’ll add subcommands to that tool. Source: The npm Blog — Adding subcommands to your command line tool

SwiftLint

An experimental tool to enforce Swift style and conventions. Source: realm/SwiftLint