My name is Jake Marsh. Inventor 💡 Founder 👨🏻💻 Creator 👨🎤 Writer ✍🏻 Lifeform 👽
How to announce and launch an app so people can't wait to download it: pricing, first impressions…
When skeuomorphic design works and when it doesn't, with tap targets, The Early Edition 2, Korg's iELECTRIBE…
Two tools for building Xcode projects from the command line: xcodebuild-rb for Rake tasks with nicer output…
A rundown of October 21st, 2026's security mess: PHP2Shell, the LiteLLM backdoor, Railway, ConnectWise…
A lot of the people reading this blog now aren’t people. They’re agents: Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and friends, fetching a page because somebody asked them a question. This week I spent an evening making Deallocated Objects nice to read for them (and for search engines while I was in there). The… Read more of Making My Blog Readable By AI Agents →
This blog has been sitting on the same Linode server for a very long time. Deallocated Objects started on WordPress in 2010, moved to a little Rails app I wrote around 2014, and that Rails app has been quietly running ever since on a box I’ve been paying for since 2012. This month I finally moved… Read more of Moving Out Of Ubuntu 10.04 →
Yesterday (Wednesday, October 21st) was one of the strangest days in security I can remember. By lunchtime TechCrunch was running a story titled “The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day”. None of these incidents are connected to each other. They just kept landing, one after another… Read more of Everything That Broke On October 21st →
I suppose it’s about time I wrote about Little Bites of Cocoa. I’ve been having a blast with it. Here’s a little about how it came to be: The idea was simple. Daily bite-sized (get it?) tips and tricks to give readers a brief overview or explanation of a particular concept, technique, or tool. I… Read more of Little Bites of Cocoa 🍫 →
One of the best kept secrets of WWDC is that random conversations and run-ins as well as the official Labs at the conference are where much of the ticket value lies. You can often learn tons of interesting details just by talking shop with the Apple employees hanging around. Here’s a summary of… Read more of Things I Learned at WWDC Today →
Today on Twitter, some clever sleuths discovered some interesting info tucked away in the latest WebKit source code. Specifically, references to iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 were found. Here are some of the highlights: Looks like we’re getting something called “App Links” this year… Read more of Some Interesting Hints About iOS 9 →
ComponentKit takes a functional, declarative approach to building UI. It lets you focus on what your UI should look like, not the steps necessary to build it. It emphasizes a one-way data flow from immutable models to immutable components that describe how views should be configured. It does the… Read more of ComponentKit →
Looks like it’s finally happening. The subscription will allegedly cost $30-$40 month, which is a tad pricer than Sling TV’s core $20 package. 25 channels may sound like not that many, but Sling TV’s cable-free subscription only offers 14 with $5 add-on packs like “Kids Extra” and “News & Info… Read more of Apple TV Service Coming in June →
Today’s release of WatchKit definitely had a few developers scratching their heads. While on the one hand, many of us weren’t expecting as many different integrations points as we got in this first release, the APIs that were announced certainly leave a bit to be desired. Specifically for those of… Read more of Confirmed: Apple Watch Runs iOS →
Apple: WatchKit apps have two parts: A WatchKit extension that runs on iPhone and a set of user interface resources that are installed on Apple Watch. When your app is launched on Apple Watch, the WatchKit extension on iPhone runs in the background to update the user interface and respond to user… Read more of Apple Releases First Beta of WatchKit →
