OuttaMyWay v3 Available Today!
Nearly two years in the making, OuttaMyWay v3 is finally available today! It’s a complete re-write, but the app retains all the familiar features users have come to love, plus a bunch of new things....
View ArticleSame site, new host
If you subscribe to this blog, you received notice of a new post, cleverly titled “test post”. Oops. Sorry. We were making sure we could still create content because we’ve moved the blog, wholesale, to...
View ArticleAnnouncing FilterFresh v1.3
An update is available (as of yesterday) for FilterFresh, our filter maintenance and reminder app for iOS.This update has the usual minor bug fixes and improvements, of course. In addition, we’ve added...
View ArticleLockbox v3
Lockbox v3 is now available, sporting a vastly more robust yet less complex API for storing data into and retrieving data from the iOS keychain. The basic premise of Lockbox has not changed: make it...
View ArticleA Precipitous Drop
I am at a loss to explain it, but I suppose it was inevitable. I have been observing a very long and slowly declining revenue tail for my best app for some time. My most popular app, OuttaMyWay! –...
View ArticleStop spammers at the gate: Don’t blindly trust SASL authenticated connections
Recently a user’s email password was cracked. Not long after, she started receiving hundreds of bounce messages. My first thought was that these messages were back scatter, produced when spammers...
View ArticleA couple things…
We’ve got an update in the works to our popular app OuttaMyWay! – Personal Lights & Siren which includes some bug fixes, a couple new sirens, and some Siren Board improvements. Thing 1: Be A Beta...
View ArticleYour app does not comply
As Apple promised in September, it started sending out emails to developers warning that their apps would be removed from sale on the App Store unless updated. I received two such emails. I expected...
View ArticleSOLVED: macOS Mojave 10.14.4 system frozen every morning
Since upgrading my iMac to macOS Mojave 10.14.4 several months ago, I have found the system frozen every morning, with no smoking guns. After weeks (months?) of this, trying many different “solutions”,...
View ArticleSOLVED: Where are all my old sims, Xcode 11?
If you opened an old Xcode project in Xcode 11 and wondered where all your simulator versions before iOS 13 went, you may need to tweak the deployment target of your target. Experienced Xcode users...
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