Apple Music Companion – Create Stations & Favorite Songs from the Menu Bar

It’s hard for me to even imagine coding without music. In fact, for years I had my carefully curated iTunes library with a playlist for every occasion.  Yep, back when music was bought as CDs and ripped.  I still have my library, of course,  but I’ve been using Apple Music as my daily driver for …

Level Up Your Speaking Skills When No One’s Watching – PowerVoice™

I’ve always been fascinated by great communicators: Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill… Great leaders tend to be masters at it – instilling a sense of purpose, distilling complex topics into simple terms, rallying individuals to achieve the impossible. And, although some individuals have innate traits, the reality is that great communicators aren’t born; they’re …

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 …

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 …