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general stuff

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New job, new OS

For a decade, I've been paid to write software, most of the time as developer for native iOS-apps. In these years, I not only learned how to write apps using Objective-C and Swift, I also learned a thing or two about software development and how to computer. This

software development

I'm used to IDEs

I'm thinking about tools. Again. After writing iOS-apps for roughly a decade and using Apple's Xcode to do so, I'm used to IDEs. Sure, I use real text editors like Textmate or BBedit or even vim for taking notes or writing blog posts, but

The two covers

In 2018 I bought an iPad together with an Apple Pencil and a red Smart Cover. Sometime later I also got a case with a keyboard that could be flatten in a way, that I still could use the Pencil with the iPad being in the case. A few weeks

Re: The M1 Macs

When it launched some weeks ago, I bought myself a new iPad Pro (M4) after the old one has gotten slower and slower after six years. Mostly, I've used the new iPad as a $2000 Mastodon Ebook machine to read in bed work on my pile of unread

Some Thoughts on Code Review

A few days ago, Max and me recorded a new episode of the German Codestammtisch-podcast. We talked about code review and pull requests. In the last couple of days I witnessed again, how useful these two can be. The full episode will air on March 22nd — I still have to

All Things Version Controlled

These are some things, articles and thoughts about version control. You are already using it, of course you are, aren't you? Recently, we recorded an episode for our German podcast. For nearly 50 minutes we talked about version control: We discussed the basic principles, git, Subversion and fossil.