Excelling 2.8 (12 year anniversary update)

Time to update the 12-year veteran, Excelling! Excelling is the first app I ever worked on, it launched way back in 2012 🤯  That’s before the flat design aesthetic and large screens took over, here’s how the 1.0 version looked: The icons had to have some depth, and I did not have money at the …

Settling down in the Bay & Starlight 1.0.4 is now live!

Back in August I posted about moving back to the Bay Area, and how that would temporarily reduce my bandwidth. Being honest, it was even more disruptive than anticipated.  There was the move itself, but also searching for (and buying) a house, fixing its rough edges, furnishing it… And all that while working full time …

Starting to code again :) on in app purchases :(

Although still very busy with the move from San Diego to Palo Alto I’m slowly but surely finding time here and there to code. Right now, working on finishing the in app purchase view for Starlight. I know, I know… Not the most exciting part, but still necessary. Here’s the latest screenshot, fresh off the …

Starlight is alive!!!

It’s alive!! Go grab it now & Get Stuff Done 👊  The best part? Not only it will make you more productive, but its also free 🙂  More to come,  Marc

Starlight has gone gold!

After over a year in the making – I’m excited to announce another signficant milestone: Starlight has gone gold! Its effectively ready to ship, what’s more, it’s also approved for sale by Apple — feels… pretty good With the app gone gold, I’m now switching to getting ready to ship! Among other things, that includes …

Leveraging Bing Chat as a development tool

Even though in their infancy, ChatGPT, Copilot & OPT are already impressive tools. The impact on how we work will be significant and, although expertise will still be critical, people who leverage AI will have an edge over people who don’t. I started increasingly using Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4 behind the scenes) to parse …

Leveraging SF Symbols from code

SF Symbols are hugely helpful to help accelerate the development process, Apple has done an amazing job at providing a huge variety of them – all looking great & working well with one another. If you’re a developer and are not familiar with them, you’re missing out – go download them.  One minor caveat to …

And just like that, MarsManaged has reached Beta!

After 18 months of work… …I’m excited to announce that MarsManaged has reached a major milestone, it’s now in Beta.  In the following weeks I’ll be opening up more testing seats, can’t wait for your candid feedback -and bug reports-!  Until then, here’s a sneak peak of the latest version of the app.  CARD’s section: …