Android Studio is a great example of what not to do when building a development environment for a device.

To be clear, they get some things right, but by and large the whole system is kind of bad, and encourages experimentation while simultaneously punishing it.

A Good Toolchain

Before I …

Sometimes, you can say a lot with few words. Sometimes, you can also do a lot with few apps. I don't use big apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, not just for privacy reasons, but because they don't fit my lifestyle. I use email, a browser, the camera, a calendar, and …

Hello again, it's been a few days!

I actually took somewhat of a weekend break in the middle there, but now we're back with more habit changer work. However, during that time I managed to complete the data structures for the core habit system, a prototype algorithm for how to …

In my last post, I talked about a new app I wanted to develop, and while I said the next post would probably be the post after next, here I am one day later with my first draft design of the app.

Basic Idea

To recap yesterday's post, I want …

Since I have a blog, and since I write software, I figured I should finally combine the two.

Wow! What uncharted waters!

In all seriousness though, a friend of mine asked me months ago to write a diet app for him that would track more than just calories. He wanted …

GNOME Shell is a pretty great tablet UI. It's not the most polished one ever, but it works really well, in spite of targeting desktop first these days.

I honestly wish I could get it on my (up-to-date) Surface RT.

This all started from a post I did a couple …

Not that many years ago, there was a significant amount of worry from people in the PC world. There was a new, disruptive marketplace segment that threatened to wipe out the PC world entirely. The tablet takeover is all but irrelevant now, and PCs remain (in one form or another …