Christian Tietze

For a while now I've been working with the people at Shiny Frog - the team behind Bear - on something new. Today it goes into beta testing. It's called Lettera , and it's a Markdown editor for macOS.

In my teenage coding days around 2001, before I used version control systems, and for a long time, I spent a lot of time reading code just to somewhat memorize it and to know what happens where and when and how I got there. This state of mind has a distin

The very first Swift Blog Carnival is a wrap. Six folks took the prompt of Tiny Languages and ran with it in directions I hadn't anticipated - from task runners and result builders to symbolic math and German verb conjugation. Thanks to everyone who parti

Recently on a meetup, I was asked whether the age of manual note-taking and Zettelkasten is over now that LLM's are everywhere and can produce so much text in such a short time that humans can't outcompete them anymore. Outcompeting a computer on producin

I picked up a term that I have not used in all my years of programming, and I love it: "Drift". As in "Specification Drift": you write the spec at time T , implement at T+1 , learn something new about the problem domain in the process and adjust your impl

The April Carnival is closed. See the roundup of all submissions . To kickstart the Swift Blog Carnival , I'll pick a topic that is inoffensive (I hope!) and applies to the vast ecosystem of Swift programming: Tiny Languages .

It took me a decade to try Emacs again, for reasons totally unrelated to computer programming (task management!), and a lot of effort by my pal Sascha Fast . In hindsight, I realize I had to learn a couple of things first. This is my contribution to Emacs

My latest app project is ready for testing: a delightfully simple drawing app for all Apple platforms.

Is it possible to claim that you're off the hook when it comes to questions of whether usage of GenAI should be allowed, focus on practical usage, and then that's that? I believe that is a bit too cheap a cop-out.

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