Ken Kocienda
@kocienda.bsky.social
Past: 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection”
It’s very good. But…
Every key should highlight in green, e.g. accept.
No clipping at the edge of the display!
Every key should highlight in green, e.g. accept.
No clipping at the edge of the display!
April 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It’s very good. But…
Every key should highlight in green, e.g. accept.
No clipping at the edge of the display!
Every key should highlight in green, e.g. accept.
No clipping at the edge of the display!
Wallaby was mostly a display with multitouch. To show pixels, it needed a tether, like an old VGA monitor cable. This tether wrapped a 30-pin cable that went to the wallaby and a USB cable that went to a bare board that was several inches square. That board connected to a G3 Mac.
April 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wallaby was mostly a display with multitouch. To show pixels, it needed a tether, like an old VGA monitor cable. This tether wrapped a 30-pin cable that went to the wallaby and a USB cable that went to a bare board that was several inches square. That board connected to a G3 Mac.
I haven't written software for Apple platforms since 2020, but over the last few days, I've been working on an iOS demo app for a prospective customer. In an Xcode log message, I was unexpectedly greeted by an old friend: UIKeyboardLayoutStar. I wrote the first version of that class back in ~2008.
January 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I haven't written software for Apple platforms since 2020, but over the last few days, I've been working on an iOS demo app for a prospective customer. In an Xcode log message, I was unexpectedly greeted by an old friend: UIKeyboardLayoutStar. I wrote the first version of that class back in ~2008.
We can, and probably should, take it for granted that all decent software gets the algorithms right. Getting the heuristics right is what makes software excellent. I wrote this about heuristics in my book.
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
We can, and probably should, take it for granted that all decent software gets the algorithms right. Getting the heuristics right is what makes software excellent. I wrote this about heuristics in my book.
Waymo is still super cool every time. Feels like magic.
December 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Waymo is still super cool every time. Feels like magic.
We’ve kept the Rancor out in the living room ever since. Around Christmas time, he gets a hat. Rancor Claus! He thinks you look delicious.
December 9, 2024 at 4:28 PM
We’ve kept the Rancor out in the living room ever since. Around Christmas time, he gets a hat. Rancor Claus! He thinks you look delicious.
In 2009, I bought this Rancor toy. We had this gingerbread house building contest, and I decided to make a monster movie tableau. I thought it came out great! I made a 1950s style monster movie poster for it too! I didn’t win. 😅
December 9, 2024 at 4:28 PM
In 2009, I bought this Rancor toy. We had this gingerbread house building contest, and I decided to make a monster movie tableau. I thought it came out great! I made a 1950s style monster movie poster for it too! I didn’t win. 😅
Apparently they take their candy seriously in Czechia.
May 3, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Apparently they take their candy seriously in Czechia.
pizza in, pizza out
April 30, 2023 at 12:01 AM
pizza in, pizza out
Sometimes I think about making simple, clear, and intuitive software, and then I remember… Oh! I already wrote about that.
April 29, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Sometimes I think about making simple, clear, and intuitive software, and then I remember… Oh! I already wrote about that.
Some end-of-the-week inspiration from TR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic
April 28, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Some end-of-the-week inspiration from TR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic
I’m in SF all day and there’s a FedEx box waiting for me at home and it has this watch in it and I can’t wait.
April 26, 2023 at 7:07 PM
I’m in SF all day and there’s a FedEx box waiting for me at home and it has this watch in it and I can’t wait.