For the last couple of months I’ve been studying German with my wife. We both have always wanted to become polyglots so we decided to stop waiting around an just start learning. We both have some ancestors from Germany and would love to visit, so that was a great place to start. One thing I’ve been struggling with is numbers in German. I can count well, but hearing a number in conversation requires a lot of thought. The problem is it is backwards from English, Twenty-One in German would be One-and-Twenty (einundzwanzig). So what’s an iOS Developer to do? I made an app for me to practice.
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I just open sourced the theme for this blog on Github. I think some of the things I do are not standard to Hugo, so I wrote some extensive documentation too. If you like this blog’s theme, check out internet-weblog on Github, https://github.com/jnjosh/internet-weblog.
After spending a month or so building an API in Go, I’m really liking the idea of server-side Swift. Go is nice, but I like the idea of an iOS app and the API it consumes in the same language. This was in today’s iOS Dev Weekly: Hello Server Side Swift.
Over the last month I’ve been using the Go language more
and more. It’s a pretty fun language but I often find myself wishing I was writing Swift.
I came across this new static engine system that was written in Go and thought I’d
try it out. It’s called Hugo. I don’t have anything bad to
say about Octopress, and a new version is coming soon.
But wow, Hugo is fast. Crazy fast.
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I saw two movies last weekend, Deadpool and Zoolander 2. Both were not as funny as they should be. Deadpool was good but most of the funny things were spoiled in the trailers. Zoolander 2 was just disappointing.
I’m finding it really difficult not to rage-tweet about politics this year.
During a recent interview with Marcus Zarra on the CocoaConf Podcast, Marcus made a quick little comment that really resonated with me.
To paraphrase, Marcus said something like “If you ask for opinions about something to a room of developers, you don’t get much of a response. If you just say something wrong they’ll tell you about it.” It’s an interesting point. People do love to correct you when you say something wrong or even something not 100% correct.
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This week I was a speaker and attendee at 360|iDev in Denver. It was my third time at a 360|iDev (fourth if you count last year’s Mini in Greenville, SC) and I think this was probably the best one I’ve been to yet. Now, I’m not saying the previous visits to this conference were bad or anything, I just enjoyed it a lot this year. Here I’ll review the week and my session.
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