Category Archives: MicroBlog

Nick

April 8, 2017

I submitted v1.0 of the Improved app today, and it feels like there’s still a year’s worth of “fast following” work remaining. 

If you’re not embarrassed by v1 the you shipped too late, right?

Check out the website too: www.improved.by and here’s what a completed job looks like: https://job.improved.by/nick/dpeGtawvC1

ps. I love that URL

Nick

April 8, 2017

I spent a couple of hours battling with SiriKit the other day. 

Getting messages to work was a breeze. Photos intents however completely misbehaved. Couldn’t even get the debugger to attach. 

Nick

March 21, 2017

Hey Siri, you’re ruining the surprise. #HomeKit

Siri responds that amplifier is not a valid function for
List of HomeKit accessory types

Nick

March 8, 2017

I’m attending Google I/O in May and I’m full of ideas that I want to validate. Today I was thinking of use cases for Tango…

Nick

March 2, 2017

Tomorrow through Sunday I’m attending #KiwiFoo

Just checked the wiki, and I already recognised so many friends.

Nick

February 15, 2017

I’m excited to attend #Webstock. Every year I met outstanding people during the intermissions and I’m sure this year will be no different.

Nick

February 10, 2017

February is turning into a upskilling-and-mobile-community month: Cocoaheads, GDG Wellington, Webstock, and wrapping up with Playgroundscon. It’s actually very cool to be supported by Trade Me (my employer) for all these. I event got myself a new T-shirt.

Nick

February 8, 2017

Tonight’s @GDGWellington event was fantastic. @AgentK did a great job at introducing people to Kotlin. For the first time, we live streamed the event, but not without technical difficulties. It turns out that the Periscope android app can’t handle more than 30 minutes of streaming. At least not on my Google Pixel…