A very strange obstacle to overcome when you just get started with iOS or macOS programming is to use custom views or view controllers. How does this magic even work? And what do the steps mean that you have to perform? When you use a Xcode template, you get a Storyboard or a Xib with the most important components for an initial, empty app to display something on screen. This is accompanied by an AppDelegate and a custom ViewController class. If you don’t know anything and just get started developing for iOS, say, then this is a good place to start hacking away: after all, the bare-bones infrastructure has been handled for you.
I don’t know why this Black Friday thing exists, but I figured I could participate this year to see what happens on this day of frenzy. So here you go, everything on this website is 50% off on Friday (+/- a couple of hours to accommodate other timezones). See also:
For about two weeks now, I’m almost exclusively working on the upcoming Zettelkasten Online Course, providing text feedback on the script and creating presentation slides. I’m picking up speed as early style decisions are settled, but there’s still a ton of stuff to do.
The WordCounter update to v1.6 is online! It brings the long-awaited statistics module so you can get an overview of your productivity over any period of time. It also comes with a CSV export of the visible data. Download the free update! Export and the aggregate numbers will be expanded in future updates. The stats currently supplement the daily calendar history, but the history will be obsoleted as I move the daily details into the analytics part itself.
