2023-02-17: Posts
2023-02-13: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” -My grandpa Bob (quoting Oscar Wilde) I love this quote and this philosophy. It has really served …
2023-02-13: My poor wife just lost $50 on a Craigslist scam. I literally can’t stop laughing 😂
2023-02-13: I’m having so much fun playing Link’s Awakening. This is one of my favorite scenes in the entire game.
2023-02-11: I opened my phone’s browser after my 14 year old was using it and found this. He and his friends are definitely up to something.
2023-02-11: Friday 🏂
2023-02-10: Tonight’s agenda: Snuggles and Babysitters Club.
2023-02-09: I actually enjoy when my browser crashes hard and forgets all of my open tabs that I‘ve been hoarding for weeks I was never going to read that article …
2023-02-08: I’ve spent months working on a blogging engine. I have always wanted to create my own ever since typing rails new blog in 2006. I finally did it, and …
2023-02-08: I’ve been taking my oldest boy (14) to the gym lately. It’s been an absolute joy! He usually fights me on going, but by the end, he’s glad he went. …
2023-02-06: I MUST own this shirt
2023-02-05: Beautiful sunny day today. The kids are in the yard playing soccer with their friends and I’m hacking code on the patio. Definitely has summer vibes …
2023-02-04: Since seeing a bobcat in The Bosque a few months ago, I now am constantly looking over my shoulder while I’m out there on my runs. It’s both exciting …
2023-02-04: Today is my 16 year wedding anniversary with my high school sweetheart. I love this woman more every single day. Cheers to the next 16! 🥂
2023-02-02: “The world seems to be accustomed to delaying gratification less and less, which means the rewards of delaying gratification grow more and more.” …
2023-02-02: My son’s friends discovered my blog and were talking about it to him (must have googled his last name). Long story short, I’m pretty famous now.
2023-02-01: Netlify Acquires Gatsby Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc. to Accelerate Adoption of Composable Web Architectures It was only a matter of time. Do people …
2023-02-01: My Year In Books 2022 📚 I have been super inspired by all of the posts this month about everyone’s “year in books”. I thought I was a pretty avid reading, …
2023-01-31: I recently wrote a post about using AI to filter social feeds. It appears that the original founders of Instagram have a new startup that’s …
2023-01-31: While demoing the shower in our rental house today, we discovered a “hidden” window that had been patched over. We are going to open up the wall and …
2023-01-30: It’s not people’s job to show you what’s interesting or great about themselves. It’s your job to find it. This is life, not a sales convention. …
2023-01-29: I’ve read The King Killer Chronicles series by Patrick Rothfuss several times and LOVED it. Can anyone recommend a similar series that I might enjoy? …
2023-01-29: For this month’s retro game, I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX on my RG351V. I absolutely LOVE this game and it …
2023-01-29: www.chronophoto.app Chronophoto - The Photographical History Game Who knew guessing the year a photo was taken could be so fun. As a comment on HN …
2023-01-28: How I missed out on being a crypto millionaire Anyone who had participated in crypto for a significant amount of time, has a story or two about missed opportunity or even loss. This is my story. …
2023-01-28: Currently reading: The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr 📚
2023-01-28: It’s a beautiful sunny ☀️ day here in Albuquerque. Has me dreaming of warm summer days…
2023-01-27: Reflections on the impact of the ‘4-Hour Workweek’ 15 years later They had never read it. If they did, they would have found that it is a …
2023-01-27: Busy day: Work meetings. Multiple contractors at the rental. Driving kids around. Gym. Dinner with friends. Wouldn’t have it any other way!
2023-01-27: “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.” - Tony Robins
2023-01-26: “How you do anything is how you do everything” -Martha Beck I love this quote! It takes on a new meaning every time I hear it.
2023-01-26: Trying to setup SSL for a wildcard subdomain using nginx and Certbot is proving more challenging than I anticipated. My devops skills need some work.
2023-01-26: (Another) Blogging Isn’t Dead Post No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon - Darius Foroux But still, people who read have always been in the minority. And I think that’s what most …
2023-01-25: Idea: ChatGPT For Filtering Social Media Feeds While I was still using Twitter, I set up a ton of keyword filters. This was especially true during the election seasons. I prefer using social media …
2023-01-24: There are so many beautiful moments every single day that I get to share with my kids. I was reminded of this today as I looked in my rear view mirror …
2023-01-24: I woke up early intending to be productive and go through my daily habits checklist. However, I ended up getting sucked into reading the micro.blog …
2023-01-23: Prompt Leakage In AI Chat Systems With the rise of ChatGPT and other AI text interfaces, there emerges a new issue called Prompt Leakage. For these systems to work well, a carefully …
2023-01-23: Xfinity actively makes it difficult to sign up for new services. I’ve literally spent hours just trying to get them to add service to my rental.
2023-01-23: Spending a bit of time today creating a node.js API on top of OpenAI’s SDK. I have a feeling many API’s in the future will be getting a …
2023-01-23: My beautiful girl at the roller rink 🛼
2023-01-22: ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut — Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voice Assistant I suspect it won’t be long before ChatGPT and others are deeply integrated into …
2023-01-21: I’ve realized that crypto makes me unhappy regardless if it’s going up or down. Going down? Why did I ever put any resources into this stupid thing? …
2023-01-20: I love you. I know.
2023-01-19: “The more time you spend complaining about what you deserve, the less time you have to focus on what you can create. Focus on what you can …
2023-01-19: Starting the 12 hour long drive from LA → ABQ 🚙
2023-01-19: Disneyland ❤️
2023-01-19: When I was a young kid in youth group, I convinced my mom that Blink 182 was a Christian band because the song Anthem Part Two said “help me …
2023-01-17: Disneyland day 2, let’s go!
2023-01-16: It’s always a great day when you get to add the Disneyland app to your Home Screen!
2023-01-16: So, it looks like @paul@tapbots.social has confirmed that Twitter is shutting down API keys for 3rd party apps. In addition to this change, they have …
2023-01-15: Exited to get some In-N-Out while we are in AZ 🍔
2023-01-14: Soccer time ⚽️
2023-01-13: Road trip’n… 🚙
2023-01-13: You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. James Clear - Atomic Habits
2023-01-11: It bugs me to no end that the NM Taxpayer Access Point uses the word logon instead of login. I picture the site being run by a cranky old pony-tailed …
2023-01-11: My oldest son used oil pastels to make this incredible piece of Lord of The Rings art. I’m continually impressed/amazed at his artistic abilities.
2023-01-11: I need to start reading more fiction. My brain is starting to melt with all of these self help books. 📚
2023-01-10: The end of the high school essay-Seth’s Blog They were actually a signal that you could do just enough work to persuade an overwhelmed teacher …
2023-01-10: <img src=“https://localghost.dev/img/blog/build-1999/geocities2.webp" width=“400”> Building a website like it’s …
2023-01-10: Writing code feels like time travel 💻
2023-01-09: Voicemails From A Spammer would be a sweet name for an album.
2023-01-09: I switched from weight lifting to calisthenics in the gym over a year ago. It was one of the best decisions ever. A year in, and I still get excited …
2023-01-08: Currently reading: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle 📚
2023-01-07: My Current AeroPress Recipe ☕️ Over the years, I have tried many Aeropress methods for making coffee. After many variations, I have found this one to be the best and most …
2023-01-06: High-Level Workings of Link’s Awakening It explains how the engine is structured and how the various subsystems are made. Very cool architecture …
2023-01-06: Time to demo some walls! 🔨
2023-01-06: I have a terrible habit of biting my nails while I’m coding. I literally don’t do it in any other context.
2023-01-05: On more from snowboarding yesterday 🤙
2023-01-05: Beautiful day snowboarding with the fam 🏂
2023-01-04: I just set up fed.brid.gy on my site which allows me to participate in the Fediverse. You can now follow me on Mastodon using …
2023-01-04: Snowboarding attempt #2 tomorrow. This time the entire family is going. Fresh snow and sunny weather 🤙🏂
2023-01-02: I say this every year, but this is the year that I get a freestanding handstand.
2023-01-02: It’s so inspiring to read everyone’s “Year In Books” posts. Makes me want to read more in 2023. Please send me your Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel …
2023-01-01: Happy New Year friends 🎆
2023-01-01: Today, we started our first day of demo on the rental property. It’s going to be a journey, but I’m super excited to tackle it with my incredibly …
2023-01-01: Bring Back Personal Blogging - The Verge Buy that domain name. Carve your space out on the web. Tell your stories, build your community, and talk to …
2022-12-31: Spending some time today watching a code breakdown on the water level of TMNT for the NES. The Broken Water Level of TMNT - Behind The Code So yeah… I …
2022-12-31: Snowboarding was a bust today. We drove all the way up the Santa Fe Ski Area (1.5 hours from my house) only to turn around and head home. The line to …
2022-12-30: I’m taking my kids snowboarding tomorrow. Super excited to teach them! 🏂
2022-12-29: @manton I have a few questions/notes about non microblog hosted sites (mine now supports webmention and microformats) and m.b integration. When I …
2022-12-29: Saying “sup” with ‘net send’ By the time we got to school the next day, the IT person had disabled net send across the network. Oh man, I miss the …
2022-12-28: Maybe I’m missing something, but I just can’t understand how to get into the Cobra Kai show. Maybe I’m not it’s target demographic. “You can’t hurt …
2022-12-28: Writing a letter to Santa
2022-12-27: I made a rookie mistake and forgot to take the trashes out to the street for pickup the day after Christmas 🤦♂️
2022-12-26: This was the first Christmas where my teenager was “too cool” to participate in many of the family activities. It was kind of a bummer and def gave me …
2022-12-25: Merry Christmas friends! 🎄
2022-12-24: My daughter and I did some skipping while out on our run today. It was so much fun. I need a little more skipping in my life. 🏃
2022-12-24: I had a beautiful night playing Super Mario World with my daughter on an original SNES. 🕹️
2022-12-23: In the spirit of Christmas, my garage door decided to “Home Alone” me. When I opened it, something on a top shelf caught the door bringing down the …
2022-12-23: My blog at brandontreb.com has been running my custom code for over 24 hours without catching on fire 🔥 There is something that feels really special …
2022-12-23: I want a self-driving vehicle for the sole purpose of being able to dunk my Chick fil a sandwich in Polynesian sauce while driving.
2022-12-23: My router decided to die a couple days ago. Needless to say, our “Smart Home” became pretty dumb without a solid internet connection. I …
2022-12-16: My good friends Denver and Ray recently opened a cigar shop called Padres. The name is super clever as they both are/were pastors of local churches. …
2022-12-16: First fire in the Solo Stove. Love it! 🔥
2022-12-16: I got Webmentions working on my blog using webmention.io and some custome JS. It’s super cool to see my micro.blog responses show up on my site!
2022-12-15: I’ve spent more time tinkering with my blog today than I’ve spent blogging this entire year.
2022-12-14: As it gets colder outside, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do cold plunges. Today it was 32f outside and my cold tub is 47f. So, technically, …
2022-12-13: This Episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast with Erika Thomson is awesome! She talks all about bees 🐝 and beekeeping. It’s fascinating to learn how complex …
2022-12-13: My wife got me a Solo Stove for Christmas 🎄 Fortunately for me, UPS delivered it while I was home, so now I get to enjoy it early 😉
2022-12-13: The sunset over the Sandias tonight is unreal.
2022-12-12: I have moved the code that generates my Micro Blog from Heroku to a Raspberry Pi in my closet. This feels much more "Indie Web" to me.
2022-12-12: I have recently been experimenting with [Morning Pages](The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist's Way …
2022-12-12: Testing…
2022-11-24: Perfect day for a cold plunge 47°F Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁
2022-11-24: My investment in Taylor Swift tickets has proven to be better than all of my crypto combined.
2022-11-18: My oldest boy turns 14 today! He decided that he wanted to get his nose pierced and dye his hair black to mark the occasion. I love this dude with all …
2022-11-15: I would hate to be on Ticketmaster's dev ops team.
2022-11-15: Here we go again… This time I'm waiting with multiple devices in the queue to purchase tickets to the Taylor Swift tour. Wish me luck!
2022-11-14: When we were in Ensenada, Mexico this past weekend, one of the street vendors called me “Rambo”, which pretty much made my year. 💪
2022-11-13: We had an absolute blast on the Emos Not Dead Cruise this past week. We got to meet so many of of favorite bands! (I got to workout in the ships gym …
2022-10-31: Today is the first time in recent memory that I opened my calendar and didn’t have a single event scheduled (except Halloween of course :)) Feels …
2022-10-31: We dressed up as our “high school self”. Turns out, I dress exactly the same now. I just wear looser clothes, don’t sag my pants, and have fewer rings …
2022-10-20: I’m currently running a caffeine Ponzi scheme in which I have to keep drinking coffee to blunt the negative effects of previous coffees. ☕️
2022-10-12: We're going to Blink!
2022-10-09: So, this is bizarre. After almost a decade of being down and transitioning between multiple owners, the site I originally created …
2022-10-06: Beautiful view! (the scenery wasn’t too bad either 😉
2022-10-05: Cigars on the Lanai with my little bro!
2022-10-05: Napoli Coast from the helicopter tour. What an incredible experience.
2022-10-05: Ready for takeoff 🚁
2022-10-04: I love the joy that my oldest son has whenever he’s on a beach. It’s one of the few times I get to see him still be a “kid” 😭
2022-10-04: Beach bums 🏝️
2022-10-04: My beautiful / adventurous wife on the Kalalau Trail
2022-10-04: Our backyard view for the week in kauai.
2022-09-18: Great time with the family at the NM State Fair Rodeo and Sublime With Rome concert 🏇🎡🎸
2022-09-14: Listening to Max Fisher on the Rich Roll Podcast talking about How Social Media Rewired Our Brains (+ Our World) has really made me grateful for …
2022-09-14: My boy caught his first fish 🐠
2022-09-12: My wife is super pumped for Christmas.
2022-09-11: My oldest son and I at the Weird Al show last night. We had a beautiful night of laughs, eating good food, and jamming to great music. I can’t believe …
2022-09-11: “Weird Al” Yankovic What an incredible experience bringing my oldest son to this concert. Weird Al truly does span the generations. This was the …
2022-09-08: Monthly Retro Game Club A few months back, I purchased an Anbernic RG351v handheld emulator. I couldn’t be happier with it. It has been an absolute joy to play the games …
2022-09-06: I’m designing a new software development paradigm. It’s called VDD (Vibe driven development) It’s when the team no longer follows any best practices, …
2022-08-22: My 13 yo boy plays “Master of Puppets” on his guitar on repeat. It’s literally the soundtrack of our house right now. It brings me so much joy 🤘
2022-08-22: Not the worst place to stop and mediate.
2022-08-19: These dudes are “bussin, no cap”.
2022-08-17: The squash bugs have won this round 🌱
2022-08-15: “Big Time Rush” concert with my girls.
2022-08-03: Just bought tickets to see Weird Al at the Santa Fe Opera! 10 year old (and 36 year old) me are pretty stoked!
2022-08-01: Today is bittersweet. My little Jack starts his first day of middle school. We are all very excited/nervous/emotional. Have a great day little man. …
2022-07-24: I just picked up an old NES to play classic games with my kids. 30 years later and I still can’t beat Mario 1.
2022-07-15: Thursday evening vibes 🥃
2022-07-11: New audio setup 🎙
2022-07-11: Carving sticks is always a big hit when we go camping.
2022-07-11: What a beautiful weekend camping with great friends 🏕
2022-07-06: I LOVE camping. 🏕 I absolutely hate camping prep.
2022-07-01: Yesterday was tough. It was the two year anniversary of my father-in-law’s passing. We spent the day visiting his grave site and eating at his …
2022-06-28: Happy birthday Jack! 11 looks great on you.
2022-06-27: This dude went off to youth camp today. He will be missed.
2022-06-25: Go for launch! Kids getting ready to go indoor skydiving 🪂
2022-06-24: I had an incredible yoga 🧘♂️ practice this morning. Breathe and Flo always have such balanced sessions that are teetering on being too difficult, but …
2022-06-24: Beautiful night getting ice cream with the fam. I’m so grateful for these people.
2022-06-23: Gym 💪 after cigar night. 0/10 Wouldn’t recommend.
2022-06-23: So, Twitter just added an innovative new feature called notes. Should someone tell them about blogging?
2022-06-22: After helping my son reinstall Windows, we also had to reinstall his sound drivers. Reminds me of my LANing days of staying up all night playing PC …
2022-06-21: I just saw a message today that Github is going to start charging for Co Pilot. While this bums me out, it definitely saves me more than $10/month in …
2022-06-17: I love watching lizards. They are living the dream. All day long, they just eat and do push-ups.
2022-06-13: What is this liquid that is falling from the sky? 🌧
2022-06-12: “Dad, Aris’ limit breaker ‘Healing Wind’ is awesome!” - Cayden That boy is in for one life’s greatest lessons in disappointment. #FFVII
2022-06-10: Today was crazy. Within the same hour I taught one son about computer networking and taught the other how to bench press. I love that my kids are …
2022-06-06: After a decade and a half of doing Wordpress development, one would think that I would be better at it by now.
2022-06-06: Fish’n with my dad today 🎣
2022-06-06: There is something incredible about eating food that was grown in your backyard 🌱
2022-05-27: Garden area built and plants planted 🌱
2022-05-21: I have recently developed a slight addiction to purchasing old SNES and Gameboy games on Mercari. I couldn’t have them when I was 8, so might as well …
2022-05-17: I have never met a Discount Tire employee that I didn’t like.
2022-05-15: I just transferred all of my crypto from exchanges to my Ledger . Pretty painless except for BlockFi which takes up to 3 days! This delay is crazy and …
2022-05-08: Bedtime reading is my favorite time of they day.
2022-05-08: A humming bird feeder was one of the best investments we’ve ever made in our backyard.
2022-05-06: I woke up early to see my wife off for her girls trip. The only logical next step is to put on LOTR Extended Edition.
2022-05-04: Every day that we lived in the bus was experimental. We had new adventures, new ideas, as well as lots of troubleshooting. I often miss those days, …
2022-05-02: This photo of my buddies and me at a whiskey party earlier this year looks like it’s straight out of the “How I Met Your Mother” Intro.
2022-05-01: 🎶 He’s just an Island Boy 🏝
2022-05-01: We switched the backyard to “Summer Mode” today. ☀️🏊♂️🍹
2022-05-01: My beautiful wife at the event today 🏕
2022-05-01: I went to an “influencer event” today. Not to influence, but to be influenced.
2022-04-30: Futureman
2022-04-30: Achievement Unlocked I (my ip) just got banned from flatearth101.com for trying to access their ‘wp-admin’ page. Note: I was on the site because I saw …
2022-04-28: I’ve done it… I’ve finally removed Wordle from my Home Screen ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️
2022-04-27: Terminal Apps Are The Future? I LOVE the idea of taking modern web apps to the Terminal. As a heavy user of ssh, tmux, screen, etc… the idea of seldom leaving the terminal …
2022-04-26: I just put my first backpacking 🏕️ trip of the year in the calendar! My REI spending has definitely outsized my trip count recently. Hoping to get out …
2022-04-26: I have never seen micro.blog so active. It must be because of The Great Twitter Exodus. I understand the hate for Musk, however I don't understand how …
2022-04-26: (Re) Learning how to swim properly as part of my old man fitness routine.
2022-04-26: I have to set a bimonthly calendar reminder to change my kid’s screen time passcode. At roughly 4 guesses per day (without getting locked out) * 3 …
2022-04-25: Is there a micro.blog book club?
2022-04-25: Apple Removing Apps Older Than 2 Years Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old This HN thread really resonated with me. I have been building and publishing …
2022-04-08: Birthday tea with my special girl
2022-04-08: My boy building his first PC #proudDad
2022-04-01: My dude looking dapper for his first school dance.
2022-03-31: Sibs
2022-03-22: The modern child
2022-03-19: Cayden’s (13) first day of reffing. When did he become such a teenager?
2022-03-11: Birthday pedicures.
2022-03-09: A beautiful text exchange I had with my wife this morning.
2022-03-09: Birthday lunch at St. James Tea Room
2021-12-21: Winning combo: Red Bull + Ibuprofen
2021-12-07: This AWS outage is killing me today. Good excuse to drink a whiskey and smoke some ribs on the Webber.
2021-12-05: Anyone here doing Advent of Code this year?
2021-12-02: My oldest turned 13 last month. Today, I got to take him to the gym with me for the first time. It was pretty great.
2021-11-25: Underrated reasons to be thankful Brilliant post I found on Hacker News today.
2021-11-25: My dream is to play guitar in a Gin Blossoms cover band.
2021-11-25: I’m incredibly thankful for this group of people. Today (and every day) I’m so grateful that I get to call them my family. 🍂🍁
2021-11-24: Hotel hangs
2021-11-18: Just hangin’ out
2021-11-01: Emo Halloweeno 🎃
2021-10-25: Great day hiking the la luz trail and lunch with my oldest.
2021-10-24: Balloon Fiesta 2021
2021-10-22: Yoga sesh with the kids.
2021-10-21: Morning ☕️ With my dude.
2021-09-22: My coworker always creates fake shirts based on my Slack messages. This one is a gem and accurately sums up my mindset when it comes to shipping …
2021-09-18: Beautiful hike in Ruidoso with this beautiful girl.
2021-09-02: Rainbow over the Sandias. Very grateful for this view.
2021-08-29: Sunrise over the Rio Grande
2021-04-27: Snorkel Crew
2021-04-27: This view will do. #hawaii
2021-04-09: My little girl turns 7 today!
2021-02-22: “Craving an outcome anchors you to a future that does not exist, and drags you from the peace of the present moment.” Success Does Not Exist
2021-02-16: Do you wanna build a snowman? ☃️
2021-02-16: Battling webapp browser compatibility is soul crushing.
2021-02-12: Visiting my Grandma on her 86th birthday.
2021-02-11: My wife surprised me on our trip and rented a Tesla Model S on Turo. This is my first time driving one and I’m absolutely in love. Feels like what I’d …
2021-02-10: The thermostat at the air bnb we are staying at had a locked out smart thermostat set to a really uncomfortable temp. Fortunately, you can’t change …
2021-02-06: Hiking the La Luz trail with my dudez
2021-02-03: Celebrating 14 years of marriage with my dream girl.
2021-01-29: Here’s a shot of our tent setup. We shoveled the paths and compacted the snow under the tents. 🏕
2021-01-29: Winter camping was a blast! It got down to 4° F in the night! Having the right gear def helped.
2021-01-26: My boy restringing my very first guitar that my dad bought me 20 years ago. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
2021-01-16: Snow day in the mountains.
2021-01-14: My 12yo love/hates my dad jokes these days. Tonight I told him that was going to start a Blink 182 cover band called “Wink 91” and we’ll only play …
2021-01-08: This dude is infinitely cooler than I was at his age. #jacksontreb 🤙
2021-01-07: 📭 Inbox: 0, it feels good…
2021-01-05: Shred the gnar
2021-01-05: I’m rediscovering learning to play guitar after years away from it. Though, I had 10+ years of experience, I’m approaching it with a “beginner’s …
2020-12-31: Just chased a coyote away from my flock of chickens and ducks. I’ve reached peak homesteading.
2020-12-26: What’s the opposite of Christmas music to de-decorate to?
2020-12-26: Super excited to purge Christmas from our house today.
2020-12-26: We called each other
2020-12-25: Merry Christmas from the Trebs!
2020-12-25: I can’t believe I have a tween.
2020-12-25: This girl ❤️
2020-12-25: His reaction…
2020-12-25: 🎄 Merry Christmas friends 🎄
2020-12-10: “Daddy Day” with my Jack was a blast. We OneWheeled around downtown, ate sushi, bought mom a Christmas present, and shopped around at Cabellas.
2020-12-09: Anyone have an Oculous Quest headset? How are you enjoying it? Worth getting one?
2020-12-08: It was super cool participating in Ernest Cline’s virtual book signing on Zoom for Ready Player Two. Hopefully, for Ready Player Three, we’ll get to …
2020-12-07: “Daddy Day” with my girl. Freddys in the park, presents for mom, shopping at the mall, photo booth, and dessert. 💕
2020-12-05: Anyone else doing Advent of Code? Our team is participating this year and sharing our solutions in slack. It’s been so much fun!
2020-12-04: Today, I had the pleasure of teaching my oldest boy (12) how to lift weights. It was awesome and I hope this is a habit that him and I can share for …
2020-12-03: Just saw the StarLink satellites for the first time. It was pretty incredible!
2020-11-29: We cut our own Christmas tree this year. What an amazing experience we had as a family. This is definitely a start of a new tradition for years to …
2020-11-28: No matter how many videos I watch, I can’t seem to get my kitchen knives sharp. Anyone have a great resource or sharpener?
2020-11-27: #Thanksgiving
2020-11-26: Today’s agenda: Drink (bourbon) Smoke (turkey) Smoke (cigar) Happy Thanksgiving friends!
2020-11-26: Beautiful bosque ride today. #onewheel
2020-11-26: When my wife wears a black turtleneck I call her “sexy Steve Jobs” and constantly make lewd Apple puns.
2020-11-21: Happy birthday to my incredible wife Ashley.
2020-11-13: New toy #oneWheel
2020-11-12: I will never get tired of Reddit jokes about the size of the node_modules folder.
2020-11-11: Question: I just bought an Intel Macbook Air. I'm within my return window. Should I return it and purchase the M1 Air? Any suggestions/links greatly …
2020-11-10: Beautiful run to the river with this beautiful girl.
2020-11-09: Lazy ducks are lazy 🦆
2020-11-09: Sunday vibes
2020-11-08: Just bought a OneWheel. Now I can live my Back to the Future 2 dreams of riding a hover board.
2020-11-04: It’s nearly time for a beer. #mbnov
2020-11-04: Good morning friends. Time for some code & coffee. I hope you all can find some peace in this crazy day.
2020-11-04: Fall in New Mexico is my absolute favorite. Every year, I’m always astonished by how beautiful the weather and foliage are. Today was no exception. …
2020-11-03: New side projects sing to me like Sirens. I wish I had the ability to concentrate and see one through to completion. #mbnov
2020-11-03: Thanks for the kind words on the photo friends. I absolutely love this community.
2020-11-02: New profile photo taken by my lovely wife.
2020-11-02: 11 hours later, the final product. It came out amazing. 🔥
2020-11-02: Beautiful night tonight. No dreary weather in sight. Going to try and ignore the craziness this week and just try to be outside as much as possible. …
2020-11-01: I’ve always loved the phrase: > “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice” From a figurative stance about hard work, but also literally. When …
2020-11-01: Successful Projects today: install water filter on ice maker install more Sonos speakers around the house acquire new hole saw set from Lowe’s think …
2020-11-01: Sunrise and smoking. I have become that guy.
2020-10-31: My oldest went another way. This is actually his default facial expression when I ask him to do anything. Side note: my wife is amazing at doing the …
2020-10-31: I stand corrected. She’s a “Greek Goddess”. #kids
2020-10-31: My Egyptian princess
2020-10-31: New computer day!
2020-10-29: App Idea: A recipe site not filled with garbage ads and gets directly to the point.
2020-10-29: This pretty much settles the Vim vs Emacs debate. rbtnn/vim-mario: Mario on Vim
2020-10-27: I think we might take the kids sledding today, the snow is now 10" deep! 🛷
2020-10-27: Snow is still coming down. Like most things this year, Fall has been cancelled. ❄️
2020-10-26: If I don’t post a photo of me on social with a “vote sticker”, will my vote even be counted? 🗳
2020-10-26: ❄️☃️
2020-10-25: After changing your truck tire, you drink a beer, right?
2020-10-25: Another shot from our camping trip this weekend. This is McCauley Hot Springs. The water comes out of the mountain at 100° F. It’s about a 3 mile hike …
2020-10-25: Gone fishn’
2020-10-22: Ready for a 3 day backpacking trip. 🏕
2020-10-20: > “Not wanting something is just as good as having it.” I heard this quote on the Tim Ferris Podcast by @naval. I’ve always identified with …
2020-10-18: Has anyone purchased an infrared Sauna for their home? I’m considering one from Costco and was curious if others had experience with setting up, …
2020-10-17: 🎥 Wife and I are trying to watch scary movies. We’re huge wusses, but I feel like it’s a good exposure. Tonight: Relic
2020-10-17: The finished product. It came out amazing.
2020-10-16: Also, I’m using my blower to help get the smoker up to temperature. Feels pretty redneck.
2020-10-16: Smoking chicken on my Webber Smokey Mountain for tonight. Using this method. I’m pretty stoked to see how it comes out.
2020-10-16: I recently came across Autumn Village, a small MMO I built years ago. Thinking I might reboot it.
2020-10-16: Great family day at the Apple Orchard
2020-10-06: We’ve spent the last 25 days on the road doing beaches, Disney, food, mountains, farms,etc… it’s been an absolute blast but I’m definitely …
2020-10-01: Testing accepting access token in HTTP Authorization header
2020-09-22: Disk drive corrupted today Spending part of vacation reinstalling OSX and downloading my dev stack Feels like 2002 and I’m at a LAN party having to …
2020-07-23: Folks who host their own M.B/IndieWeb sites, what does your tech stack look like? I’m currently using Jekyll + Github + node + heroku. Curious if …
2020-07-23: I'm going to start charging my 12 yo $5 every time he responds to me with “I know". #parenting
2020-07-23: Do you think Door Dash drivers ever take a bite of your fries?
2020-07-17: If I could describe the micro.blog community in one word, it would be wholesome. It’s such a refreshing break from the noise on Twitter. Thanks …
2020-07-16: And…this is why distributed social networks (like micro.blog and Mastadon) are the future. Twitter Hack Was An Inside Job - daringfireball.net
2020-06-23: I hate Medium. Are bloggers making so much money that it’s worth most people never seeing their content due to paywall?
2020-06-19: Great advice for even seasoned web developers. Plaidophile: Advice to young web developers
2020-06-18: Now that I have been taking off Fridays, Thursdays feel amazing.
2020-03-23: Over the weekend I was opening old posts that I upvoted on Hacker News, and came across this site . I remember beings so excited about a JSON …
2020-01-06: “I can’t meditate in the sauna because it burns my nose ring” the most millennial thing I’ve ever said
2019-12-24: Christmas cookies have paired nicely with my coffee addiction.
2019-12-24: As if I don’t already have enough hobbies, I’m currently studying to get my Ham Radio Technician’s license. What study resources have you all found …
2019-12-22: Programming Languages Are Only Tools Some young punks overheard me talking about JavaScript at lunch today. They felt it necessary to come to my table and tell me “typescript is …
2019-12-13: Good catch @manton on blockchain.Such a ridiculous thought to put Twitter on the worlds slowest and most expensive database. Seems like enabling …
2019-12-12: Ice bath tub was 42° today. 2.5 minute soak was brutal. shivers
2019-12-12: With all this chat of Twitter trying to move to a more open protocol, I went down the rabbit hole of implementing a very simple ActivityPub server in …
2019-12-12: I love writing code when my laptop’s battery is low. It’s like I’m racing against the clock.
2019-10-19: Is there anything more American than feuding with your neighbors?
2019-09-15: The Aeropress Go looks amazing!
2019-03-19: Unpopular opinion: I'm not a fan of Dark Mode
2019-02-18: I'm deep in Kotlin dev now and I find it to be much like Android itself. It's very functional, but lacks overall polish and sexiness. It often …
2018-12-13: The gym smells extra pungent this evening. Also, why does everyone where bodybuilding.com shirts? Does it make them seem more legit?
2018-12-12: Trolling phone spammers brings me way too much joy.
2018-12-11: We Instead Of I When I first started consulting, I had everything tied to my name. My company name was Treb Studios, my email was brandon@brandontreb.com, and my …
2018-12-10: I want to mass-delete all accounts in which I no longer use. Does anyone know of a service where you enter your email and they tell you which services …
2018-12-07: Signals Tonight, I'm going to a party for local entrepreneurs. I was getting ready for the party and thinking about the signals I am sending with every detail …
2018-12-07: Darknet Diaries 🎙 I have really been enjoying listening to Darknet Diaries lately. It’s a Podcast about hacks and software security vulnerabilities. The show really …
2018-12-05: How I Stay Organized My wife and I are hard core “type-a” people. I mean, so planned that we send each other calendar invites for date night (don’t judge what we consider …
2018-12-04: I absolutely hate scoping projects. It's such uninteresting / uninspiring work. It's ironic because scoping generally translates to work/dollars, so …
2018-12-04: This Year's Tiny House, Skoolie, Full Time RV'er Top 5 Must Haves This Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice Holiday - School Bus …
2018-12-03: Weird Tasks That I Have To Do Because We Live on a Converted Schoolbus Many of you might not know this, but my family and I live in a converted schoolbus. Today, I had quite a few “bus chores” and I figured that I would …
2018-11-30: Dev Blinders - Failing To See Things From A User Perspective The other day, I was having a conversation over Slack with my development team. They were working on a client project (and doing a killer job), and …
2018-11-30: I love the microcasts on here. Hearing someone’s voice makes me really feel like I know them.
2018-11-29: Chopping wood is my favorite form of meditation.
2018-11-29: How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of Money - Mr. Money Mustache How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of Money - Mr. Money Mustache Another solid post from mmm. His blog was one of the first I read that set us on …
2018-11-28: Whoa! One of my posts made the discover page. Good thing I paid @manton all of those stacks of cash ;)
2018-11-28: Tips For Starting Your CS Career My little brother was recently in town for the holidays. He’s about to graduate from college with a CS degree, so naturally we talked about searching …
2018-11-27: Today’s task: Parsing malformed XML containing malformed HTML containing malformed XML. Regex-ing, repairing, and parsing at each level only to …
2018-11-27: No One Cares About Your Clever Code As developers, we spend so much time perfecting our craft. We are always on the hunt for hacks, tips, and tweaks. We always set out to write the most …
2018-11-26: For Micro Monday, I recommend @chet . He writes daily haikus, which are absolutely delightful.
2018-11-25: A Tour of Our Converted School Bus Home After two years of living in our bus, we have finally done a tour. We were a little awkward on camera, but I …
2018-11-23: The Diet Starts Monday In our house, we often joke that “the diet starts Monday”. Usually, this is in response to some conclusion that we are not currently on the healthiest …
2018-11-23: apple.news > China’s plan to rate citizens based on social behavior moves closer to reality - Bloomberg China is about to go full Black Mirror
2018-11-22: Gratitude It’s often much easier to have a sense of gratitude when things are going well. As humans, we are prone to focusing on the one bad thing that’s going …
2018-11-22: The race - Seth's Blog How is it that Seth Godin can be so inspiring in so few words?
2018-11-22: Prototypes Usually End Up In Production “Just hack a quick proof of concept, we’ll rebuild it when we get more funding.” These are some words I often hear from clients who have minimal …
2018-11-21: Cold Emailing Locals I always receive cold emails. Some of them are personalized, and some of them are robotic. Sometimes, I’ll ignore and sometimes I’ll respond with …
2018-11-20: The phrase “click funnels” does not read well in a small font on a t-shirt. I could not stop stairing at this guy at the gym until I realized what his …
2018-11-20: Pretty cool, I just set my Jekyll blog up to receive Web Mentions via webmention.io. Next step: Display m.b replies on the post themselves. Amazing …
2018-11-20: How We Winterize Our School Bus Conversion - A Minimalist Family Adventure Great post by my wife about how we prepare our bus for winter (we live on a …
2018-11-19: Blogging Builds Community It's been around 3 weeks since I started blogging every weekday. This experience has been nothing short of delightful. While I have seen many …
2018-11-16: One Thing I was recently listening to Episode 344- 10 Strategies To Be Happier Through Gratitude on the Tim Ferris Show. Oddly enough, I much prefer episodes …
2018-11-16: @manton I have to tell you that I really appreciate that the micro.blog iOS app doesn’t “infinite scroll”. The Load More button forces me to pause and …
2018-11-16: Starting New Projects I had the amazing opportunity today to hit File -> New Project today. There are few feelings in the world as great as the optimism that comes from …
2018-11-14: Client Deliveries Are Hard I have been building software for clients for over a decade now and have come to one solid conclusion: deliveries suck. Maybe I'm just the worst …
2018-11-13: Free Business Idea: RV Storage & Rental I was having a conversation with my dad the other day and sharing some of my current business ideas with him. I also mentioned that I often discuss …
2018-11-13: My First App When I was in high school, I used to think computers were for nerds. I was a skater obsessed with chasing girls with no time for computers. It wasn’t …
2018-11-09: Rates Rates are a weird thing and chances are, yours are too low. I spent years stressing about rates. I would always start strong and but then eventually …
2018-11-09: The Grass Is Always Greener People often tell me things like "it must be nice to work for yourself”, or “I'm working hard to make someone else rich". Having spent many …
2018-11-07: Don’t Hire Your Friends - A PSA A few years back, when the company was growing particularly quickly, I made a decision to hire my friends. Although, I had been warned by many others …
2018-11-06: It`s A Good Time To Be A (Good) Mobile Developer If you are a mobile developer in 2018, and are not consulting (at least on the side), you are missing out on a huge stream of revenue. In the early …
2018-11-05: On Blogging More Frequently I have been obsessed with Seth Godin lately. I've been reading his books, listening to his podcasts, and devouring his blog posts. It's amazing how he …
2018-11-04: Compromising Out Of Fear Seth Godin recently discussed in an episode of the Tim Ferris Show a fear many of us have of the future. He used the example of him landing speaking …
2018-11-03: I’m A Professional Dream Crusher I just had a realization that I’m a professional dream crusher. Being in software consulting, I hear multiple pitches every single week for all sorts …
2018-10-31: Halloween pin, give it to me.
2018-09-28: Great meetings with some great people today.
2018-09-17: Every single time I’m in an Apple Store, I get asked if I worked there. Apparently I have the “look”.
2018-09-15: Weird week. Consulting is hard.
2018-09-13: I absolutely love the feeling of completing a task and archiving the email or checking the box on my bullet journal corresponding to it. Sometimes I …
2018-08-25: This article sums up very nicely why it may be a very long time (if ever) until decentralized apps are really a thing. What do you believe now that …
2018-08-22: Really loved this article. I wish I could send it to some of my ‘Fox News Cult’ relatives without it being seen as passive aggressive. Why Everyone …
2018-08-17: I can’t help but feel sorry for clients when they opt to play the “India Lottery” for development instead of a local (or at least US-based team). 75% …
2018-08-14: Man, I have recently headed down the #pico8 dev rabbit hole. It’s such an elegant way of building games and knowing that I can’t really sell the games …
2018-08-14: If I never have to touch Slack or Telegram again, it will be too soon. I have nothing against them as technologies, however the way teams and clients …
2018-08-03: I just got a spam call today. Instead of hanging up, I sang “hold music” (Tetris theme song) and kept repeating “Your call is very important to …
2018-07-28: Is there a hacker news bot on micro.blog?
2018-06-05: No matter what payment schedule I put a client on, they will still wait until the absolute last minute. I should start putting everyone on net-1.
2018-05-30: Pandora’s mobile app is straight garbage.
2018-05-18: What is your go-to “coding music”? Mine is Tron: Legacy Soundtrack by Daft Punk.
2018-05-16: This girl
2018-05-07: 2nd Tennant in a row that we’ve had to evict due to non payment of rent. Being a land lord is hard.
2018-05-04: C Primer I have always loved the C programming language. I remember being a young programmer (man that was 15 years ago) when I wrote my first C program. It …
2018-05-02: About to watch Infinity War in the middle of the day with my boys. Today is a good day.
2018-05-01: brew upgrade was the wrong command. #coffeeBreak
2018-04-30: DApp Development: The Next Gold Rush? Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working on a DApp called thisorthat.io built on the Ethereum network. It has been an absolute …
2018-04-30: I’d say that my least favorite part about software development consulting is writing proposals. Though they are critical to my sales process, etc… I …
2018-04-30: I have multiple nested "toSort" folders on my Desktop. That's probably not a good sign. Time for some Spring cleaning!
2018-04-29: It's pretty cool to see the Miyazaki films showing at our local theater all year long. I'll definitely be taking the boys to most of these.
2018-04-29: testing uploads
2018-04-28: We just got done watching A Quiet Place. It was so intense. Such a fun movie to see in theaters.
2018-04-28: We got a pretty cool feature the other day on Daily Mail: New Mexico couple sell their home to travel America in a $33,000 converted school bus with …
2018-04-28: I feel like the best way to get the most value from micro.blog, is to just jump in the discover tab and start interacting with random folks. It very …
2018-04-28: Anyone else using Jekyll for their micro.blog platform? I have some open source node app to do publishing but doesn’t seem to support media. Looking …
2018-04-26: We just got asked to be on a reality TV show about living on our converted school bus. So… I guess you could say that we have made it.
2018-04-26: So, after announcing that I was posting to micro.blog on my main brandontreb.com, I had 79 unsubscribes from my email list.It also might have had …
2018-04-24: My wife just crossed 20k followers on her Instagram account @trebventure. She posts photos of our life living on our converted school bus and all of …
2018-04-23: Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It But You Are Being Programmed” “We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we …
2018-04-23: A Practical Introduction to Blockchain with Python // Adil Moujahid // Data Analytics and more This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials on …
2018-04-20: We launched our first every DApp on the Ethereum main net for a client today! This or That? Check it out, answer some questions, and win some ETH!
2018-04-19: I had to write a doubly-linked linked-list to represent a priority queue on this project for the first time since college. Guess I'm ready for my …
2018-04-17: I feel like I need to do a blog series on "getting started" with Ethereum development. The tech changes so frequently and is super scattered …
2018-04-16: Our team has launched our first DApp on the Ethereum test net for a client. Building a solidity / blockchain app has been more fun that anything I …
2018-04-15: Trying Something New tl;dr: micro.blog is pretty cool. I have recently been thinking about my process of blogging / tweeting / facebooking / etc.. and have realized that …
2017-04-07: How Creating A Call Flow Can Help Your Software Sales Calls In 2008, I was still in college. I had just landed my first job with a small consultancy as their first iOS developer replacing their outsourced …
2017-03-06: Lower Your Rates (Sometimes) - Investing In Building Your Portfolio As developers, we hear the echo chamber on Hacker News and others shouting at us to raise our rates. We are worth it. In theory they are right, we are …
2017-02-06: Side Projects Over at Pixegon, I really try to encourage my developers to have their own side projects. Often times, employers look at side projects as competition …
2017-01-02: Trying Something New Every single year since the beginning of time (at least since the beginning of this blog), I have resolved to “blog more”. And every …
2016-04-11: Develop Your Empathy Muscles For Great Good A while back, I made a flagrant comment on Twitter about how I assumed the world worked. It was something to the effect of “The internet levels …
2016-02-08: How To Lose $300K In One Conversation Will you work for equity? After you have been consulting for any amount of time, you are bound to get asked this by a client. You may find yourself …
2016-01-25: Why Start Software Consulting Want to jump ship and be a software development consultant? This post will detail why this path is a much more fulfilling and safer path than a …
2016-01-11: 2016 Goals As the new year kicks off in full swing, I am reflecting on my 2015 goals and setting some new ones for 2016. Here is how I did on each of last …
2015-07-28: The Value Of Quality Assurance It’s late, you have been hacking all night to get the client a build. Finally, around 2:30 am, you hit submit and publish something to the …
2015-04-07: Ship Products You Are Proud Of There is a familiar phrase that I hear all too often when a client comes to me with an existing application. It goes something like this: “Our team …
2015-01-27: Your App Idea Most Likely Falls Into One Of Three Categories During my years of mobile development, I have heard the phrase “I have an idea for an app!” hundreds, if not thousands of times. Sometimes it would be …
2014-12-29: Goals For 2015 It cannot be overstated that writing down one’s goals is critical to acheiving them. Pair that with sharing them with others who might help keep you …
2014-12-09: Software Consultant Contracts: Fixed Bid VS Time And Materials One of the most common questions I get from software consultants is whether or not to accept fixed bid contracts. In this post, I’m hoping to shed …
2014-03-31: Software Development Consulting: Some Tips On Structuring Your Contracts When I first started out as an independent software developer, one of things that stressed me out the most was how to structure contracts that I sent …
2014-02-28: Being An Indie Software Developer And Signing NDAs Very frequently, I receive emails that go something like this: “Hey Brandon, I have a killer project idea. Do you want to work on it? Please sign the …
2014-01-31: Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory I recently published a post about my first year of being an independent iPhone development consultant. The feedback from my readers was incredible, …
2014-01-01: What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting Wow, I can’t believe it has already been a full year since I struck it out on my own. Last year, I published a post after my first month on doing …
2013-08-20: The Top 5 Places To Find Good Software Developers/Contractors One thing I am often asked is “Where can I find good developers/contractors/subcontractors?” While I have found talent many different ways, I wanted …
2013-08-15: iPhone Programming Tutorial: Creating An Image Gallery Like Over – Part 2 Welcome to the second part of my tutorial series “Creating An Image Gallery Like Over”. In this part of the tutorial, you will learn how to actually …
2013-08-12: iPhone Programming Tutorial: Creating An Image Gallery Like Over – Part 1 Recently, I have had to build an app (download link) that required the user to choose a photo from their photo library. Rather than just throwing up …
2013-06-12: Back To My Roots I wrote my very first blog post back in July of 2008 when I start iCodeBlog.com. I started the blog because I saw a huge need for iOS development …
2013-01-22: Tools of The Trade: What Tools I Use For iOS Consulting Welcome Hacker News! There’s some discussion happening in the comments; but, as always, the better conversation is on the article page on Hacker News …
2012-12-29: What I Learned In My First Month Being A Contract iOS Developer tl;dr Present yourself to potential clients as if you have already made it. Don’t be scared, the work it out there. Freelancing FTW!1! In the first …
2012-08-24: 5 Third Party iOS Libraries I Have Found Useful Lately As I mature as a developer, I try to rely on other people’s code more an more. Why build something from scratch when a solution already exists that …
2012-06-13: How To Become An Indie Game Developer What programmer doesn’t want to be an indie game developer? A great article with tons of tips to help you on your way. [Article Link] Tweet
2012-06-08: My Number One Feature Request For iOS 6 Fix the Snooze button! I have no idea how this UI component got to Apple’s review team and they were like ”Yep, that looks beautiful! Ship it!”. If …
2012-06-01: If There Was Ever A Time To Submit A Show HN Article, It’s Right Now Earlier today a post titled ”I Try to Up Vote Every ‘Show HN’ Post and You Should Too” made it to the top of HN. It basically talked about people …
2012-05-29: Lua Scripting The UI For Pocket MUD Pro I have just updated my MUD client [Pocket MUD Pro] to be a universal library. It was surprisingly easy to add the iPad support as most of the …
2012-05-25: Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 With Absinthe 2.0 + More Watch Dev Coming The GreenPois0n team has just announced Absinthe 2.0 allowing users of all iDevices (except Apple TV 3) to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1. This is especially …
2012-05-24: Join Me At 360iDev 2012 I mentioned this on Twitter last week, so I might as well post it here to make it more official. My talk Making Your Games More Dynamic With Lua …
2012-05-24: Incredible List Of Popular Indie iOS/Android/Steam Titles On Sale We believe that developers should have the freedom to price their games how they like, without interference from the online stores that sell the …
2012-05-23: Why Facebook IS People This is a very well written article detailing some of the inner workings of Facebook and why its business is YOU. I wonder when a distributed, …
2012-05-23: The guide to implementing 2D platformers http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/ An incredible guide detailing many of the tricks/design patterns …
2012-05-23: Pocket MUD Pro Is Now Universal + Promo Codes I have just updated Pocket MUD Pro to support the iPad! In celebration, it’s on sale for $1.99 (down from $2.99). Also, here are 10 promo codes …
2012-05-22: MetaWatch Announces iOS Support – Still Can’t Compete With Pebble For those of you who have followed my blog for a while, you know that I am a huge geek for smart watches. I had the first version of what is now the …
2012-05-22: Great Introduction To Lua (click the post title) I have been using lua in my iOS applications for some time now. This tutorial provides a great introduction to a scripting …
2012-05-01: Why you Should Check Out Unity A while back, my buddy seantron showed me some of his 3D games he’d been working on including this one. My initial reaction was “how the heck did he …
2012-04-27: I Suck At Blogging (Lately) OK, so the title isn’t entirely true (I have maintained quite a few blogs in my day). But, one thing is for sure, I have sucked at blogging lately. So …
2012-03-29: Pocket MUD Pro Released + Promo Codes I am very proud to announce a brand new version of my Pocket MUD Pro application for iPhone. I have been working very hard to make a perfect MUD …
2012-01-25: Vim For iOS Is Incredible I used to be an Emacs guy and would battle to the death on the war between Vim and Emacs. It wasn’t until a coworker of mine sat down and really …
2012-01-19: Fluid For Mac As of OSX Lion, I have started to seriously loathe some of the build-it Mac apps (such as Mail, and iCal). While I previously had no issues with them, …
2012-01-16: Amazon – A Terrible Solution To A Huge Problem tl;dr; Don’t buy a Kindle Fire for your kid until they resolve the parental control issues. Wifi password protection is their current solution, and it …
2012-01-03: Why I Went Back To Jekyll – Also Rackspace Sucks Recently, I was pretty humbled when a post of mine titled WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again made it to the front page of Hacker News. I was a little …
2011-12-31: New Year – New Theme: Focus On The Content As you may have noticed, my blog has a new (much cleaner) theme. For 2012, my blogging goals are to focus much more on content rather than flashy …
2011-12-07: SVProgressHUD Is Quickly Becoming My Favorite iOS Library From the first time I saw this effect in the Tweetie (now Twitter for iPhone), I was crazy about it. I had written my own hacks to make something …
2011-11-29: Tether Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking (Or Paying For It) With all of the buzz around the iTether App, I figured I’d offer a more permanent solution since Apple will surely yank this soon Last year, a …
2011-11-22: Caterpillar 1.1 Released I have just released the update to my Centipede clone called Caterpillar. For those of you who don’t know, I am doing a 6 part series on how to create …
2011-11-21: WordPress Plugin For iOS Developers And Bloggers This plugin looks to be super useful for people wanting to blog about iOS apps. It even supports the affiliate urls. In any post or page, insert the …
2011-11-16: Voices That Matter Conference: Highlights This past weekend, I attended the voices that matter conference as a sponsor for a new product my team is working called MaaSive. We had an absolute …
2011-11-16: Caterpillar-HD Now In The App Store: Tutorial Series To Follow I have just released the update to my Centipede clone called Caterpillar. For those of you who don’t know, I am doing a 6 part series on how to create …
2011-11-14: WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again Earlier this year, I jumped ship on WordPress and moved to Jekyll after reading this post on Hacker News. I wanted to be 1337! I wanted to ditch the …
2011-10-05: What’s Your Cruising Speed? Earlier this year, I launched an application called Smart Lockscreen Creator. It was a pretty simple app that allowed you to add dynamic data (such …
2011-09-07: Join Me At The Voices That Matter iOS Conference In November, I will be attending the Voices That Matter iOS Developers conference. It will be my third time attending, and I can’t recommend it …
2011-08-24: Beginning Jailbroken iOS Development – Your First Tweak This is the 3rd installment of my jailbroken iOS development series. If you haven’t already, make sure you read the following tutorials to get up to …
2011-08-14: 10 Great Pixel Art Tutorial And Free Resource Sites For Your Games I don’t usually create “list” posts, however I wanted to share a grouping of resources I have been collecting over the past few months. As you may …
2011-07-30: Cocos2D Tutorial – Dynamically Coloring Sprites Have you ever seen a game (such as Tiny Tower) that contains similar sprites that only vary by certain attributes (coloring, shading, accessories, …
2011-07-16: Pixel Art Character Tutorial – Creating And Customizing A Bitizen This will be a continuation of my last pixel art tutorial about configuring Photoshop for Pixel Art. For the past month or so, both my wife an I have …
2011-07-02: Configuring Photoshop For Pixel Art First things first. My wife and I had welcomed a new baby boy into the world on Monday so you guys are going to have to see the obligatory “dad” pics. …
2011-06-18: Announcing iOS 4 In Action + Free Chapter! Wow, I can’t believe it has been over a year since the release of my book iPhone And iPad In Action. Since then, we have sold over 6,000 copies and …
2011-06-04: Autonomous Steering Behaviors In Corona SDK Games Wow, it’s already been 5 months since I was last blogging for #iDevBlogADay. The time has flown by! Recently, I have been dabbling with Corona SDK and …
2011-05-27: Check Out AutoCorrector + Promo Codes! So, this blog post might sound like a lame press release, but I actually do want to talk about a cool app some buddies of mine created. Just read it …
2011-04-22: Beginning Jailbroken iOS Development – Building And Deployment Welcome to the next installment of my jailbroken iOS development series. If you haven’t already done so, read my previous post to get up to speed. …
2011-04-14: Half Off iPhone And Android Books From Manning Publishing Today Last year I wrote the second edition of iPhone and iPad In Action. It was published by Manning Publishing and today they are offering half off all of …
2011-04-13: My Journey To Create The inPulseNotifier For Jailbroken iPhones – Part 2 This post is a continuation from my previous post found here. A MobileSubstrate Tweak? After I completed a basic app that allowed me to send various …
2011-04-12: My Journey To Create The inPulseNotifier For Jailbroken iPhones – Part 1 Many of you may have seen my tweets or blog posts regarding my development of a native iOS interface for the inPulse Watch. I just wanted to share a …
2011-04-11: Beginning Jailbroken iOS Development – Getting The Tools Developing for jailbroken is actually quite similar to regular iOS development with one addition. More Power! oh oh oh (said in a Tim Taylor voice …
2011-04-07: Jailbroken iPhone Development – Would You Be Into It? As of recent I have had a ton of interest in doing development for Jailbroken iPhones. I love the power, being able to hack anything on the device. …
2011-04-06: Officially Running On Jekyll Well, I have finally made the switch from WordPress to Jekyll and couldn’t be happier. Here are some of the bonuses I have seen thus far. SPEED: Just …
2011-03-28: Considering Leaving WordPress For Jekyll So, after my 6 year relationship with WordPress, I have been having some strong feelings for another (blog engine). Jekyll does everything that I want …
2011-03-08: Huge Update To Smart Lockscreen Creator + Promo Codes I have just updated Smart Lockscreen Creator and am giving away 10 copies! Download It Here I know you probably aren’t reading this as you race to see …
2011-03-01: Free App Idea: Drop Tunes Perhaps this already exists, if so, please link me to it. The idea Drop music into your Dropbox folder on your computer. Then open up the app which …
2011-02-24: Smart Lockscreen Creator Released + Promo Codes My latest iOS app, Smart Lockscreen Creator has just released on iPhone for $.99. Download It Here The Idea Currently your lockscreen on your iOS …
2011-02-21: Albuquerque Marathon Training Well, I have finally decided to put my money where my mouth is when it comes to fitness and train up for a half marathon! The marathon I’m training …
2011-02-16: Tweet Press 3.2 Update – Sidebar Widget I have recently had an overwhelming number of requests for a sidebar widget that displays your recent Tweetpress photos. Well, it’s finally here! The …
2011-02-15: It’s Elementary My Dear Watson IBM's Watson on Jeopardy Last night marked the beginning of the IBM Jeopardy challenge. For those of you who don’t know, IBM has been working …
2011-02-14: Case Of The Mondays Mondays… The other day, I was faced with an interesting programming challenge and wanted to share my solution. I just submitted a pretty …
2011-01-20: Farewell (For Now) iDevBlogADay Hey guys, I wanted to thank everyone for letting me be a part of the iDevBlogADay community. You guys have been super supportive and I really …
2011-01-13: AppBlogger: A Tool For iOS App Developers And Bloggers Imagine that you have just found the coolest app in the world and just can’t wait to tell all of your followers about it. So, you head to the admin …
2011-01-06: Image Manipulation: Retrieving And Updating Pixel Values For A UIImage Grayscale Jobs With the recent success of cool photo manipulation apps such as Camera+ and Instagram, it got me wondering. How do these photo apps …
2011-01-03: [Pi]mp Wallpaper Found on Reddit Tweet
2010-12-30: What Does Your Workspace Look Like? I am always very fascinated with the workspaces of others and frequently check out Lifehacker’s posts on their featured workspaces. So, for this …
2010-12-28: Free App Per Day Service As many of you may know, I created a site called Fresh Apps. This site started as sort of a Digg for developer submitted iPhone apps. Since then, we …
2010-12-27: New Year, New Blog Theme I seem to change my WordPress theme more often than I change my socks. I just tend to get very bored with my blog aesthetics. Not to mention, I will …
2010-12-24: Cloud Storage Wallpaper Source: http://simpledesktops.com/ This is my current desktop image. I thought is was pretty sweet so I’ll share it with you all. Merry Christmas! …
2010-12-23: Changing Your Life In 2011 For this blog post, I decided to take a small break from my Twitter Client for Mac tutorial series and discuss something a little more useful 😉 . I …
2010-12-22: Does He Have A Memory Leak? My wife has this interesting problem of having vivid dreams about whatever she was last watching/discussing before bed. Last night, I was explaining …
2010-12-20: Advertising Now Available Current Public Site Stats I am now offering advertising in the sidebar for the killer price of $10. I felt that the Google Adsense ads looked super …
2010-12-17: That’s It! I Quit Programming. Because I could never make something this cool/impressive: YouTube – Introducing Word Lens. Tweet
2010-12-13: Link: Minecraft Like Rendering Experiments in OpenGL 4 – Codeflow I found this article while browsing reddit and was blown away. I have been a little mystified at the potential algorithms used by notch to render the …
2010-12-02: Creating A Twitter Client For OSX – Part 1 With the upcoming release of the Mac App Store, I can only imagine another gold rush is upon us. Clever Indie developers making money hand over fist …
2010-11-25: Promoting Your Other Apps Within Your Apps First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. And a happy Thursday to everyone else. I’m sitting here on Thursday morning drinking coffee and …
2010-11-18: XCode Tips And Shortcuts To Improve Your Workflow Intro This is my first #iDevBlogADay post and I wanted to give a quick intro before jumping in. My name is Brandon Trebitowski and I’m a software …
2010-11-11: Core Data QuickTip: Inverse Relationships One thing I always wondered about Core Data is why the compiler would warn you if you didn’t specify the inverse relationship. After reading through …
2010-11-08: RE: Android Developer Income Report This article was a very interesting with some insight into the Android Market. Basically, this indie Android developer has published 6 free …
2010-11-05: What not to do in life | TKs weblog Here is a great article about some advice given to a 22 year old starting his life journey. These points are applicable to anyone, but found them …
2010-10-28: Tweetpress Plugin Updated I have just posted an update to my plugin Tweetpress! In case you don’t know, Tweetpress is a plugin I created that allows you to post images to your …
2010-10-20: Ludum Dare Competition: Week 2 Update So another week has gone by and I have made quite a bit of progress, here are the additions since I last posted. Texturing Lighting Skybox Better …
2010-10-14: Calculator Creator Released + Promo Codes I have recently been developing an iPhone app in my free time called Calculator Creator. This application has been an idea of mine for quite some …
2010-10-07: PoV’s Challenge: Week 1 After a week of studying my butt off with OpenGL ES, I have finally started work on my game engine for my Pov’s Challenge game. As you can tell from …
2010-09-30: Game Dev Challenge + OpenGL ES Resource List The other day, I was reading Ludum Dare and saw a very interesting post. It was a call to action for all game developers to get serious and actually …
2010-09-22: This Pretty Much Sums It Up Source Tweet
2010-09-21: App Store (Link Share) Affiliate Link Generator A while back, I wrote a post called ”Money You Might Be Missing Out On” where I discussed the Linkshare API. Well, I took it upon myself to create a …
2010-09-17: Great WordPress Plugin To Connect Your WordPress Blog To Your Tumblr Ok, so maybe this is stupid, reposting your own content in multiple areas. As far as SEO goes, it may not be the best idea. However, I really love …
2010-09-16: SEO: Works Every Time So I received an internal email at work the other day about how we could SEO our company website (http://elctech.com). Here was my suggestion: “Just …
2010-09-16: 6 Traits Of A Successful Developer I really enjoyed this article on traits of developers. http://www.turnleafdesign.com/6-traits-of-successful-developers In my experience, developers …
2010-09-07: Great HTML5 Infographic This info graphic just about sums it up in terms of what is HTML, and why we should care. It includes browser readyness, various API support, …
2010-09-01: Technology + Fitness = <3 :: 3 Apps That Will Keep Even The Laziest Geek In Shape If you are reading this post you are most likely a geek. It’s true, otherwise if you were a reader of my blog and not a geek, you would be very …
2010-08-30: WordPress For iPhone/iPad NSXMLParserErrorDomain Error 64 Resolved If you have a WordPress blog and an iPhone/iPad, then you most likely have the WordPress for iOS app. If you don’t, you should. Over the past couple …
2010-08-27: Feedburner Anywhere Plugin Updated I have updated my WordPress plugin Feedburner Anywhere. In case you are unfamiliar with it, it’s a plugin that allows you to output your Feedburner …
2010-08-21: Simple Office Fitness: Replace Your Office Chair With An Exercise Ball When I was in Portland this past month, I saw that many people in my work’s office were sitting on large exercise balls instead of office …
2010-07-06: Test Version of TweetPress 3.0 So WordPress 3.0 has broken Tweetpress for many people. If you are daring, willing to help, and experiencing issues with Tweetpress, please download …
2010-06-08: Feedburner Anywhere Plugin Released <p class="wp-caption-text"> Image via CrunchBase </p> I have just released another WordPress plugin called Feedburner Anywhere. …
2010-04-15: HECK YES C Macro, For When Something Is REALLY True Quite possibly the most useful macro you will ever use. #define HECK_YES true && true // Usage if(self.sleepy) { self.needsCoffee …
2010-04-06: Dynamically Load WordPress Post Images Like Mashable.com What? Have you ever noticed that the content on Mashable.com loads Incredibly fast? Also, have you noticed that as you scroll the images seem to …
2010-03-17: WordPress Coding: Programmatically Add Post Tags (and other meta info) I was recently working on a script that imports from a custom blogging platform into WordPress and had some need to programmatically add post …
2010-03-12: WordPress Programming Tip: Enable Database Error Reporting For Custom Queries So this one should seem pretty obvious, but it wasn’t apparent to me at first. It was only after digging through the wp-db.php file that I discovered …
2010-01-29: Emacs For OSX Is Out! For all you Vi using, Emacs haters out there, I will fight you! Tweet
2010-01-27: The iPad Is Out And It Sounds Like iPod While Plugging Your Nose Tweet
2010-01-21: Watch Out Apple, The Kindle Dev Kit Is Almost Live With the success of the Apple App Store, it seems that everyone is wanting a piece of the pie. Amazon is now looking to throw their hat into the ring …
2010-01-20: Code Monkey Music Video Watching this video makes me appreciate the fact that I work from home. Tweet
2010-01-04: Hacking Redbox – How To Get Free DVDs <p class="wp-caption-text"> Image via Wikipedia </p> I was at Wally-World the other day getting a movie from RedBox with my …
2009-12-17: Great List Of Algorithm Programming Tutorials Recently TopCoder.com posted a list of algorithm tutorials from some of their “top coders”. The tutorials are very comprehensive and pretty much sum …
2009-12-14: XCode Shortcut When in XCode on a MacBook Pro, doing a 3-finger swipe up will switch between the .h and .m files. ⌘-option-up will do the same thing Productivity++ …
2009-12-04: Programming Tip Of The Day #2 – Difference Between i++ and ++i To some, this should seem a bit obvious and if I am insulting your intelligence by discussing it, I am sorry. But, one of the main reasons I want to …
2009-12-03: Programming Tip Of The Day #1 – Ternary Operator So, I though I’d start this series called Programming Tip Of The Day to write about useful things I come across in programming. Both to educate my …
2009-12-02: Mac OSX Tip: Hotkey To Hide/Show the Dock While mashing the keyboard (as I often do when debuggin poorly written outsourced code), I stumbled upon a very useful OSX hotkey. ⌘-option-d This …
2009-11-27: Increase Your Twitter Following Using Your WordPress Blog Download TwitPop Now TwitPop is a WordPress plugin I wrote with one goal…To make you more popular on Twitter. There are sites that spring up from …
2009-11-25: First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. George Carrette [1990]. Tweet
2009-11-16: PHP Class To Interface With Many URL Shortening Services With the explosion of Twitter and such services, the need to have long URLs shortened has drastically increased. Naturally, many services to shorten …
2009-11-13: Programming 99% of students that were in my CS degree program Image taken from abtrusegoose Tweet
2009-11-13: $13 Dollar Discount On Programming Books From Manning Publishing The publishing that I’m writing the book for is having a huge Friday the 13th sale. They are offering a $13 discount on all of their books. For those …
2009-11-12: Money You Might Be Missing Out On – LinkShare API Integration As you may know, I am the developer of the site FreshApps.com. One thing we had been doing to make some extra money is to use Linkshare to be an …
2009-11-11: Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. Edsger Dijkstra Tweet
2009-11-10: Was Jesus A Real Person? Great Article On Digg Today The culture of Digg is generally very liberal (to say the least). That is why I was very surprised to find one of the top stories of the day entitled …
2009-11-10: New Alice in Wonderland Poster Is Sweet Very stoked for this movie. Photo source ign Tweet
2009-10-06: TweetPress Now Supported By Twittelator Pro For many of you this is old new. But since it’s latest release, Twittelator Pro has supported TweetPress as one of the options for Photo Posting. Here …
2009-09-18: Post Photos To Twitter From Your WordPress Blog With TweetPress That’s right. With the latest release of TweetPress (version 1.1.1), you can post photos directly to Twitter from your WordPress blog’s …
2009-09-10: TweetPress coming soon to a Twitter Client Near You TweetPress is the WordPress plugin that gives you total control and ownership of the photos you post to Twitter, sending your traffic back to your …
2009-08-29: iPhone In Action Book A couple months ago, I was asked by someone on Twitter if they could “introduce me to someone”. I found this question a little odd so I …
2009-08-10: Displaying Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count Anywhere – PHP Coding Tutorial If you are a serious blogger (and I’m sure you are), you probably track your RSS subscribers with FeedBurner. If you don’t, you should be. One thing …
2009-08-06: Easily Create And Manage SQLite Databases With A Firefox Plugin If you are doing any Mac, iPhone, HTML5, etc… developement, you have probably had the need for an sqlite database. So, you fire up your Terminal and …
2009-07-29: XCode Shortcut Cheat Sheet Through my travels through the internets, I have stumbled upon this amazing reference. It’s a complete set of XCode shortcut commands. Learning …
2009-07-28: Creating A Twitter Client In Objective-C Client Part 2 This tutorial has moved! I have updated it to support Twitter’s Oauth, you can find the first tutorial in there series by clicking the link below …
2009-07-23: Installing And Deploying Rails On A Red Hat Server With Passenger I have long been a fan of Ruby on Rails and even jumper on board very early on. The one thing that has held me back from using it in the majority of …
2009-07-22: TagACloud.com (Re)Launched! So in 2006, my buddy JJ and I took some inspiration from the Million Dollar Homepage and decided to create a totally inovative Web 2.0 site that …
2009-07-22: New Alice In Wonderland Movie Looks Sick I was a big fan of the game Alice that came out for PC. It def portrayed AIW as a darker sort of movie. It looks like Tim Burton will add a similar …
2009-06-08: iPhoneLB.com gets a much needed update So, I started this site called iphonelb.com a few months back and left out a very important feature. The ability to edit your applications!?! What …
2009-04-10: Parks & Recreation is to The Office as American Dad is to Family Guy After seeing the show Parks and Recreation last night, I have come to the conclusion that the show is doomed to fail. Not only is it not funny, it’s …
2009-04-06: Increasing Your Blog Traffic Using Twitter Trends Twitter Trends are a very interesting part of Twitter. They are basically the most typed keywords or hashtags on twitter for a given day. Some …
2009-04-04: I freakin hate this page… Seems to show up way too much. Tweet
2009-04-03: Alexa Gets a Much Needed Update If you have a blog/website then you probably have heard of Alexa. If not, you should search your blog in it to find out some interesting stats. Being …
2009-03-31: WordPress Plugin To Increase Twitter Popularity If there are two things I love on the intenets, they are WordPress and Twitter. Recently there have been many plugins developed to integrate the two. …
2009-03-27: Twouble With Twitter Video Ok, so I am sure you have seen this video by now, but I just had to post it because it’s flippin hilarious. This perfectly describes mine (and others) …
2009-03-26: Google In Real Life Using Google Classic Image Source: http://www.boomerang.nl I depend on Google way too much for spell checking, simple math, and looking up things I don’t know off the top …
2009-03-25: WordPress For iPhone Gets A Much Needed Update A few days ago, the popular blogging tool WordPress released a much needed update to their iPhone application. The main features included in the …
2009-03-24: Top Dugg Story of Today – I hate Dane Cook LOL, SlightyOverDressed.com had a post that made it to the top of DIGG today simply titled “I Hate Dane Cook”. That’s freakin hilarious. Here’s the …
2009-03-24: Free Leaderboard Solution for iPhone Game Developers What makes most multiplayer games more exciting that single player games? It’s competition! People love to compete with eachother. And how can …
2009-03-19: Part 3 of iPhone Game Programming Tutorial Posted On iCodeBlog It’s been a while, but I finally posted part 3 of the iPhone Game Programming tutorial series on iCodeblog.com. The focus of this tutorial was to …
2009-03-12: New Web Application That Will Be Useful For iPhone Games Developers So, after downloading many iPhone games and talking with a ton of iphone developers, I have a found a huge need in the community. Over the next week I …
2009-02-27: The Only Twitter API PHP Class You Will Ever Need Note Twitter has switchted their entire interface to use OAUTH and this class no longer works (I should probably change the title hahaha). I will …
2009-02-25: Why Many iPhone Apps Suck I have been downloading many different iPhone apps lately and have noticed that many of them suck. When I say they suck, I’m not necesarily referring …
2009-02-20: Twitter API Programming Tutorial With PHP – Intro I have recently started using Twitter and completely fell in love with it. Being a programming, this naturally made me want to develop applications …
2009-02-19: Binary Game – iPhone App Review Just posted an app review of B1nary Game over at FreshApps. Check it out! Tweet
2009-02-18: New iPhone Game Programming Tutorial Post On iCodeBlog Well, it had taken me a while to slot in the time, but I finally finished part 2 of the iPhone Game Programming series iTennis on iCodeBlog.com . The …
2009-02-18: Blogging Practices – Frequency and Size of Posts If you have ever had your own blog, you may have at one point been faced with a question. How often should I write a blog post and how long should …
2009-02-17: The Focus Of This Blog The purpose of this blog will be primarily to share my programming knowledge through coding tutorials. I will be writing tutorials based on the …
2009-02-17: iPhone App: Buzzword Submitted to the App Store I have just submitted an iPhone app that I have been developing in my free time. The app is called Buzzword. It’s basically a game similar to the game …
2009-02-17: How to Connect Facebook To Twitter With the growing popularity of both Twitter and Facebook, one could obviously see a need to link them together. Whether you primarily use Twitter or …
2009-02-17: Buzzword The ultimate party game has arrived in the App Store! If you are a fan of the game Catch-Phrase, then you will love Buzzword. In this fast-paced …
