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Getting Started with LevelDB

Getting Started with LevelDB

LevelDB local database theory, querying and C++ bindings explained with detailed examples for iOS Objective-C and a quick overview for scripting.

2013

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Purrticles and a Belated BuildInPublic

A product design (hurried) story

Sep 13

Screenshot of the XCode Particle Editor settings showing a complex dialog with many controls

Sep 13

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Touchgram

How Apple broke apps on old phones

Blindsided by Bitcode. Another Apple bug tale, this one almost un-testable, and a bit of a lesson on privacy.

Feb 1, 2022

Four phones representing different OS versions, with crosses and ticks to indicate only iOS15 OK.

Feb 1, 2022

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Apple’s bug, or mine (Sprite bites)?

Programming and debugging life — what a really hard bug looks like being found & fixed. A tale for startup founders, developers and the…

Sep 27, 2021

Bug report lodged that changing text causes a page to draw as all black after page change

Sep 27, 2021

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Sopwith Software Tales

Sysadmin Snippets — Cable Tales 1

Tangles and a kind of debugging

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Picture of DB25 serial cable, black with connectors at each end with 25 pins in two rows

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Sopwith Software Tales

Sysadmin snippets — Intro

Experiences from when I was not just a developer

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Sysadmin snippets — Intro

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Sopwith Software Tales

Scientists and Sticky Notes

My useful analogy for XML data, and how it breaks.

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Scientists and Sticky Notes

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Sopwith Software Tales

Homework helper vs lecturer

Back around 1988 I was mostly working as a VAX mainframe sysadmin, at Griffin Coal Mining.

4d ago

Grids showing memory layouts as intended by lecturer versus the reality of the HP compiler inserting an alignment byte.

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Sopwith Software Tales

It didn’t add up!

A savvy workman knows that sometimes you DO blame the tool

5d ago

Photo of a Burroughs B20 workstation, an old computer on a desk with green display on left and main unit in front with clipboard built in and holding paper notes. Some computer manuals are to the right of the keyboard.

5d ago

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Sopwith Software Tales

My first professional bug

A tale of lost innocence

Nov 6

Picture of a Durango early desktop computer with built-in printer, keyboard and monitor off to one side.

Nov 6

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Sopwith Software Tales

Recent bugs deserve a re-read

Sopwith Software Tales are mostly going to be blasts from the past, but for those of you who are mostly here for heroic tales of bugs, I…

Nov 6

Nov 6

Andy Dent

Andy Dent

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Touchgram interactive messaging Founder looking for art, sound & advertising partners. GrandDad. Developer, designer & Martial artist 40+yrs. Australian born UK

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