Over the past few weeks I have been making quite the progress in reviving my app development skills. It helps to have a goal in mind for motivation. The app I wanted to build is now somewhat func...

So a short note to ask… is anyone really following (ha ha!) along? I probably don’t need to announce every increment of little app milestones but I cleaned up the iPad version of my launcher. Smal...

I know from my previous experience of both Java and Qt that cross-platform is hard. Combine that with APIs that change over time and spare time projects that move naturally slower and you have a re...

So if you are following along I have gotten myself into a rhythm now. **MyPyStub **is the name that I *uncreatively *gave my launcher of Python code on my iPhone and iPad. (I have an open issue on...

This is a no-op (programming lingo) mea-culpa post in the hope that the workflow truly works now! I just read back my own blog to find that I hadn’t quite gotten the encoding right in my little ap...

That’s what I told people at Morning Startup. This break from work I have really had fun couch-coding, *bed-coding *and *co-coding *(with Gemini). And I reached a bit of a milestone today. I’m lea...

This is not the way you want to make a post quickly, but the long way now is usually an investment in the future and I hope that’s the case here. If you’re reading this then my rudimentary Python ...

In one word: work has kept me remarkably busy. But it’s not just that. I’m coding again. Alright for full disclosure it’s pair programming with Gemini, no I won’t say it’s vibe coding because I a...

So I did promise to report back on the past trips. Well, there wasn’t much to say. The Indian Ocean Defence Symposium was classically flashy. It was a great reflection on my past career (draw your...

Ironically, for my history, the next event that I’m attending is the one that *forced *me to join LinkedIn. I’m not sure, yet, how I feel about that, but I do like the daily puzzles. But I already...