Standing desks have been pretty popular in the past few years. Something about how sitting in a chair for ten hours straight not being super good for your back or your heart. I know it should be higher on my list but because the average standing desk cost a few hundred dollars and because I don’t work from home that much, I’ve been postponing buying one for a while. That’s why I got super interested when I saw the good compromise Oristand was offering. I’m writing this post standing in front of it and I must say it feels really good.
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Throwback friday: Adobe Flex and Air
In a time like this when it’s finally cool again to rant on Flash, I recently rediscovered thanks to a memory on Facebook that I had videos of a few experiments I did with Flex and AIR. I’ve never really been a good web guy. Even now that I try to experiment from time to time with React (which is awesome, don’t get me wrong), I’ve always been a (native or not) standalone application kind of guy. I remember these days at school where I experimented with Java and Swing and then Flex when I wrote a couple of AIR Desktop applications. I’m not sure how relevant this is because I lost/trashed the sources ages ago but I figured it would be fun to post them here.
Wipe your DerivedData folder with this one simple trick
When you do any form of iOS development involving Xcode, chances are you’ve been in this situation where nothing works anymore and everybody tells you to wipe your DerivedData folder and try again. During the beginning of Swift this was happening a lot to me and the easier way to do that was to use a zsh alias available in “Oh-My-Zsh”. I’ve always wanted to play with Arduino. I had this idea in the back of my head when I discovered the LikeLight video on Vimeo. I recently had the opportunity to start learning about all this when I met Angelo, a great guy who happens to build robots for a living (or something like that). This two things really don’t have anything in common unless your decide to get a little creative.
Introducing NaughtyKeyboard, a keyboard to break your apps
Earlier this week, Rémi shared a link to a github repository containing a bunch of weird strings you could use to test a web application. The given example was Twitter that gives you an internal server error when you try to post a tweet with one of those strings. Playing with the custom keyboard API of iOS was on my list but I had no idea what I could do with it until this repository. Last week I released a super-simple custom iOS keyboard to easily use these strings.