I created the FormattedString that I mentioned in a previous post. I wanted to encapsulate some basic formatting options in my own class that would use the NSAttributedString class internally. I also want to use the variadic function capability in Swift to make formatting text as simple and…
Continue readingI was reading a few posts online about Swift variadic functions. I have to say, the amount of copying and pasting of content online is disturbing; Quite a few of the posts, some on Medium and some on various blogs, are almost identical in content as if the…
Continue readingThere is a new Beta version of the Linkage program. I changed the software so gears are now links and you can add connectors to them. The gear and those other connectors are always going to move together so there is no reason to fasten gears to links…
Continue readingThis post content shows the image sizes that the blog software is managing. These sizes reflect all of the various images that are created from any uploaded image. The zero-size entries are caused by the theme adding some new sizes and then me getting rid of them by…
Continue readingI had a problem in my iOS app that required an interesting solution. My app has a variety of information on the home page and using segues to transition to other pages was cumbersome. The segue system in iOS is a little weird because it relies on a…
Continue readingWingspan is a tableau building card game that, like most games of this type, is classified as a board game. The bird-watching theme and attractive packaging led me to get a copy and play it for the first time recently. I enjoyed the game and will play it…
Continue readingSomeone was having trouble with the Linkage software and sent me an email. They were very nice about telling me that the software was convoluted and difficult to use. Since they were working with gears, I am in total agreement that the software is difficult to use. But…
Continue readingI plan on adding speed, acceleration, and maybe other information, to the Linkage program. People have asked about force (which is weird since threes no mass to the links so there is no force required to move them) and sometimes they ask for other things that are so…
Continue readingGame day was interesting yesterday. My daughter and I bought two expansions for Firefly the Game – two new ships with a few new cards – and we played with five players once everyone showed up. Firefly is not a deep mathy board game. It has plenty of…
Continue readingI have not had much inclination to write on my blog recently. I don’t thinks it’s because of a lack of possible content, but rather because of a lack of motivation. I did post that I released a new version of the Linkage program but that was a…
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