What is debugging and what's the right way to go about it?

FileWatcher is a tool for developers that observes the Mac filesystem. It can observe over 30 different types of events!

The XCode build system is used every day by every iOS and Mac developer, but not many people understand how it works. Here's a small, technical overview.

A video I made on how to speed up Gradle builds in Android Studio

Technical interviewing can feel formidable. Make it easier by standardizing your interview process.

Let's think of a way efficient list operators might work in Kotlin, then see how they're actually implemented in the Sequence list type.

Take a look at how Kotlin's map, filter, and reduce are implemented and what that means for their efficiency.

The guidelines I've gleaned from books and videos on how to create well written unit tests.

There are a few ways to do dependency injection. Here's an exploration of constructors & factories in a small Kotlin Android app.

Making an environment of inclusivity a motive of the group, not a task of the affected individuals.

Kotlin is a great new language from JetBrains, but its function definitions are hard to read if you've never done it before. Let's learn how to read them!

I recently read through the March 2017 iOS Security Guide and made a few notes - it's quite dense! I thought I would share these notes so other people can benefit from the time I put in too.

The promise of hands off dependency management sounds great, but every update of CocoaPods seems to bring more trouble. Here's how I fixed a particual error after splunking through the source.

An in-depth picture of the rendering bottlenecks in Tracker Android using Systrace and Profile GPU Rendering

Today has been an absolutely fascinating Saturday. Allow me to count the ways.

Do mocks provide value when writing iOS tests, or are they more trouble than they're worth?

Today the Inquisi team got their local dev environment up and running with Docker! This post will cover Docker, what it is and why it's useful, and what it means to our work.

Today was the first day of Startup Term, a new computer science and business program out of Knox College happening during the spring of 2015.

Takeaways from "American Philosophy and Postmodernism." Includes information on Pragmatism, John Dewey, Charles Peirce, and Alain LeRoy Locke as well as an article from Salon.com.

I've been in Beijing studying Chinese for about a month and I quite enjoy it. Here are a few of my favorite things about the language.

Choosing the proper writing implement is a minor decision, but I still enjoy thinking about why I use the things I do. The Precise V7 Fine from Pilot is my favorite pen so far: it's small, comfortable, and lasts forever.

Robert Sapolsky gave a lecture at Stanford on the topic of major depression. For those that have no information on the disease, this video lecture is worth the time.

Hermann Hesse is one of my favorite writers. Most of his work was written in the first half of the 20th century and deals with the relationship between opposites: the secular and the religious, light and dark, knowledge and ignorance.

David Foster Wallace wrote a great piece on fiction writing that encompassed the topic of irony and self-reference within media. It's a work that helped me organize my feelings about the current state of American youth culture.