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Vim + Swift
Its been a few years since I last participated in Advent of Code, and I actually forgot about it until I saw some folks mention it on Mastodon. I’ve also been working on my Swift + iOS development skills this year, contributing to Pocket Casts iOS a few hours a week in addition to my […]
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Learning iOS Development, “properly”
I’m not really sure there is a singular proper way to learn anything, but I do know that there is a way that I learn things and that is through doing, not reading. So instead of messing around reading tutorials or massive O’Reilly books again (I think I’ve tried that twice over the years) I’ve […]
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Clap Like Nobody Is Watching
This post was just sitting in my drafts presumably waiting for me to add to it… then a year went by and I did nothing with it. So here it is now, better late than never. I’m not sure when this site just became an announcement blog for my work projects (I really need to […]
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Vote Like a Roman Emperor
Today my team launched our second WordPress block, the Vote block! The vote block lets your readers up or down vote content on your page that you’re looking for feedback on. You can already use it on your WordPress.com site or download the plugin for your self-hosted site here What do you think?
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Either The Smartest or The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Done
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I’ve just imported the entire archive of my old blog at johncaruso.ca to this site. It was about 360 posts that date back to 2004 when I used to ramble on about mundane day to day things I was up to. Its been fun to re-read […]
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Its A Poll Block!
My team over at Crowdsignal has been working on a cool new poll block plugin for WordPress called Crowdsignal Forms. We officially launched it this week for self-hosted WordPress sites and on WordPress.com! Please go check it out if you’ve got a WordPress blog or website.
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Clean Your Clipboard!
The clipboard on my iPhone is something that I never really gave much thought to. Copy & Paste, it always just worked when it was there. It took until iOS 3 for it to be introduced, but since then, as a user, I never actually had to worry about it. That was until I installed […]
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R2D2: A Messy Domain Tool
In the spirit of John making things, I’ve recently turned my gaze on the unnecessarily long list of domain names that I’ve collected over the years. I’ve moved between several different registrars at different times in the last 15 or so years, and have even spread out some domains in different places depending on the […]
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The Roastery
I’ve been sitting on about 4 lbs of green coffee beans that I got as a secret santa gift at work last Christmas. I tried roasting on a skillet over my bbq this winter, but it was way too inaccurate and I just ended up burning the outside of the beans and not roasting the […]
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A New Beginning
I’ve had many web presences over the years. My first website (built with NetObjects Fusion and then Microsoft Front Page) was hosted on Geocities and it was a fan page for my heroes at the time: Patrick Roy, Saku Koivu and Jacques Villeneuve (if memory serves). After that I decided to learn HTML and build […]