Working around the “Untrusted Developer” bug on iOS 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. One of the must infuriating bugs, for me, on iOS 15 is that I can't run my own software on my phone. I can install my app via Xcode, but running it presents this dialog, and crucially nowhere in Settings can …

Checking in on iOS 15 bugs, as of 15.0.2

tl;dr: it's still buggy.

Reusing an ESP8266HTTPClient

Part of the Getting Started with ESP8266 + Arduino series. In my ESP8266/Arduino/PlatformIO HTTPS demo project, I make two consecutive HTTPS requests, to different sites, from the same function. You can see the code in question here. I'm doing this work using the ESP8266HTTPClient library, which is …

How to enable debug logging for Arduino's ESP8266HTTPClient with PlatformIO

Part of the Getting Started with ESP8266 + Arduino series. While working on my ESP8266 Arduino HTTPS demo project, I wanted to enable debug logging from the HTTP client. It took me a few minutes to figure out, likely due to my lack of experience with this platform & toolchain (Arduino, …

ESP8266 + PlatformIO Serial Console Monitoring with Exception Decoding

Part of the Getting Started with ESP8266 + Arduino series. As part of my efforts to debug a crash during an ISR on ESP8266, using the PlatformIO toolchain, I had to figure out how to get the PlatformIO device monitor tool to decode stack traces printed to the serial console. For …

Debugging an Intermittent Arduino/ESP8266 ISR Crash

Part of the Getting Started with ESP8266 + Arduino series. I've been playing with Wemos D1 Mini ESP8266 boards lately, in preparation for some upcoming project ideas, and just because learning new things is fun. I have some ideas for a series of blog posts about these boards; debugging …

Small commands, big consequences

My personal favorite Linux CLI gotcha is crontab -e vs. crontab -r.

More Bugs in iPhone 13 & iOS 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. Since my last post, I've bought a new iPhone 13. I've encountered some new bugs, along with some old ones I expected a new phone to solve. A recurring theme for me: Apple's hardware is great. Their …

iOS 15 & Safari 15

Part of the iOS 15 Bugs series. iOS 15 is out. Overall I'm happy-ish with it, but I've run into some bugs/annoyances. A lot of these are around Focus Modes, which is maybe the iOS 15 feature I've played with most so far. …

Integrating URLs into the Finder file-browsing experience

macOS services to quickly create URL shotcuts on the filesystem.

I wrote ‘hosts-timer’ to help quit my (desktop) Twitter and Facebook habits

Part of the Project Announcements series. It was really easy for me to get into the habit of checking Facebook and Twitter while waiting for my computer to finish something. These sites are, after all, designed to be addicting. There are some apps that are supposed to help solve this, …

Tiny Side Project: Lofi Cafe.app

An Electron wrapper for lofi.cafe and friends.

I got into 3D printing, and it feels like magic

In which Chris gains a superpower.

LAKE.app

Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two photos (shot on iPhone) …

LAKE.app GitHub repository

GitHub - cdzombak/lakeapp: LAKE is an iPhone app that plays some relaxing Lake Michigan waves in a loop.

LAKE is an iPhone app that plays some relaxing Lake Michigan waves in a loop. - cdzombak/lakeapp

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