Thinking Out Loud

As April 10th, 2015 nears, a lot of us have been talking about which Apple Watch we’re planing to preorder. Most people I know are planning to preorder the Sport. Their reasoning is usually something like “Next year’s model will be way better. I’ll spend more on that one.” Although I do understand this mentality I don’t completely agree with it. I totally agree that next year’s model will be better — it always is — but my hope is that the Apple Watch will hold hold its value for longer than a year.

Prior to iOS 8, view controller presentation worked like so:

I started this blog to make myself formalize the ideas knocking around in my head, but not posting anything isn’t going to help. So, I’ve decided that I’m going to force myself to post something at least once a week. I’ve also decided to make it very easy on myself by not defining what ‘something’ is. It could be one sentence about how I feel about something or it could be a video post explaining a complex topic. Either way, I need to start formalizing my thoughts and ideas. Its probably going to suck for awhile but hopefully, over time, I’ll get better at this. Feel free to hold me accountable and nag me on Twitter (@jakecarter).

2015 is upon us and like others, I’ve started thinking about what I might want from WWDC later this year. In no particular order:

I recently gave a talk at Seattle Xcoders about some problems I had run into with UISplitViewController and accessibility. This is my attempt at distilling that information down into several blog posts.

In OS X Lion (10.7) Apple added support system-wide support for running your native apps full screen and in their own space.¹

Mostly putting this here so I can find it in the future.

So it’s been awhile since Apple debuted the Apple Watch and there are a few things that I still find very interesting.